Secundino Hernández at Work

February 19th - April 20th, 2025

SALA ALCALÁ 31

Calle Alcalá, 31. Madrid. Spain

By way of an itinerary through his almost 30 years of artistic career, the painter Secundino Hernández presents his first institutional exhibition in his city. The exhibition is organised in such a way as to allow an approach to the artist's reflective process, where gesture and accident occur in an apparent fluidity and lightness, the result, however, of a constant, methodical and bordering on obsessive practice. To this end, an analysis of the fundamental aspects of his pictorial language is proposed: drawing, the treatment of surfaces, form and the human figure.

The exhibition is divided into four sections, with the aim of examining the following dimensions of his work: the relevance of drawing as the basis of painting, the surface as both a space of representation and a plastic element, form in pictorial composition and in the creation of a language of his own, and the human figure, which represents the painter's incursion into the margins of abstraction.

The surface refers us both to what the canvas contains and to the construction of a pictorial space on the plane. Thus, every Hernández painting is a result and shows us how it originated and the processes that led it to be what it is.

He conceives form as "workmanship, manufacture, disposition, appearance, structure, morphology and composition". The artist works three-dimensionally: during the making of the painting, from the surface of the canvas towards the potential viewer, and finally in the compositional sense of the tradition he embraces.

The figure or portrait is based on the addition of layers of paint on the canvas to achieve a clear and distinct representation. And the figure or the nude —always— female in his case.

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