About

I first met Joan Hernández Pijuan (Barcelona, 1931-2005) in the mid-nineties and since then I have had the opportunity to organize three exhibitions of his work. We opened this gallery with a magnificent selection of his work on paper in 2004, and accompanied that exhibition with the publication of a catalogue. In 2015 we held a new exhibition commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death, and later in 2018, we put his work on paper in dialogue with the colourful canvases of the Costa Rican painter Federico Herrero.

I have never stopped admiring his work, and without being an authority, I …