Arturo Herrera: Powerful Images

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Art21 first featured artist Arturo Herrera in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Arturo Herrera is featured in the Art21 episode "Play" along with fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Oliver Herring, and Jessica Stockholder. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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Herrera's studio in Berlin
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During this shoot, Arturo Herrera had a temporary studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, as part of a DAAD Fellowship (German Academic Exchange Service). In operation for over 30 years as an exhibition space and artist residency studio program, the building for the Künstlerhaus Bethanien was inaugurated as the Central Deaconesses' Home and Hospital in 1847.

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Stravinsky & Balanchine
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In Herrera's New York studio, he keeps photos of Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine on the wall, as inspiration:

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Photography Process
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Arturo Herrera's black and white photographs are made by taking close-up pictures of collages, adding an element of chance by placing the roll of exposed film in unusual or extreme conditions (such as in a jar of water on the windowsill), and then developing the film and printing the picture.

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"Les Noces" (2007) Digital Projection
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Herrera later transformed and adapted his suite of 80 photographs into a digital video projection. The work is titled after "Les Noces (The Wedding)", a 1923 ballet scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the Ballets Russes:

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Multiplicity of Images
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In the past 10 years alone, the digitization of academic photography archives such as The Library of Congress, the emergence of commercial stock photography services such as Getty Images and Corbis, as well a popular photo sharing websites such as Flickr have dramatically increased the number of images available to a broad public.

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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.

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera.

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