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Channels: Abstract ArtAmerican ArtCollageContemporary ArtPhotography
Artists: Arturo Herrera
Themes: Becoming / Being an Artist
Exclusive Episode #061: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses his relationship to creating abstract collages and images. Herrera takes the process of abstraction a step further by photographing fragments of his collages, such as in the work "Untitled" (2005), a series of 80 black and white photographs. He submerges the undeveloped film in hot and cold water, coffee, and tea, creating unpredictable results when printed. Editing the photos into a grid of images, Herrera creates a work that‘s greater than it‘s individual parts.
For Arturo Herrera, abstraction is a language rooted in the practice of assembling and composing fragments. Herrera collects illustrated books, comics, and paint-by-number paintings, cutting and splicing them into new forms. He also creates his own source material by fragmenting drawings, watercolors, and shapes made by applying paint directly from the tube. Herrera collages all of these elements together, pasting them together to create a new whole.
Learn more about Arturo Herrera: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herrera
VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera.
Coming to the studio is a time for discovery basically for me.
Stravinsky said unless you don’t put your time or you don’t work for many hours nothing is going to happen. So the news of invention doesn’t exist, you just have to work.
And for me usually it happens at the last minute of the last hour that I am overly exhausted and I thought it was just a wasted day
and then something happens. So, I believe in just being in the studio trying different things, playing, experimenting and
just working through chance accidents. Very hard discipline to be able to get some kind of result, but you know there is something
in the image that keeps informing you, keeps teaching you, keeps surprising you, and you can't really put the finger on it.
So, you put it on the wall close to you in the hope that you will be able to solve it someday.
It becomes your friend, your mentor. It becomes a support system to be able to say yes there is hope, yes you could do it.
There are great images that were made. They still need to be made. That’s what keeps me going.
I mean it’s impossible to create an image that will have any impact because now the multiplicity of images today;
it makes the, makes the project utterly insane or irrational with you know the internet and digital cameras and film and video.
But I think there are still images there that people have not seen and that will be able to be powerful enough to be able to send different messages.
If I make an image that hopefully is strong enough for some viewers or if the image is generous enough to some viewers then my job is done.
Arturo Fuente Cigars
"Herrera takes the process of abstraction a step further by photographing fragments of his collages, such as in the work "Untitled" (2005), a series of 80 black and white photographs."
His work is amazing and I love it! Thanks for the video!
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