About

In the case of painting, a production that connects with his work in video, Orestes Hernández showcases the aesthetics of “cut and paste” and contemporary visual saturation. Due to his distinctive handling of pictorial language, the whimsical ways in which he balances discipline and randomness, and his awareness —and consequent deconstruction— of the conventional nature of representation, he has often been categorized as a conceptual painter, something that Orestes prefers to distance himself from. Regarding the ultimate purpose of his work, he has said on occasion: “I evade any grandiose …