Michel Herreria at Fondation Antonio Perez, Cuenca

Michel Herreria's exhibition at Fondation Antonio Perez in Cuenca, Spain, from March 2 to May 6, 2007, presents his large-format paintings on paper (190 x 150 cm) that accumulate and multiply in a deliberate proliferation. His work involves fragmentation and reassembly, using the painting surface as a receptacle for silhouettes, notations, schemas, prototypes, cells, and conduits, characterized by coordinations, shocks, densities, and voids. The content is a matter of containment, piecing together scattered elements to form a coherent whole. Herreria addresses the cruelty of the world and the radical solitude of individuals, questioning how to reach others and escape the sterile coexistence of all with all. His paintings depict oppressive objects and devices, with beings rendered in icy transparency, engaged in undefined operations. He portrays the ravages of a system of control, enslavement, media saturation, and isolation, drawing from a political fantastic rich in contradictions and impostures. Yet, his work avoids rigidity and laborious denunciation, instead extracting a burlesque dimension and launching caricatural scenes inspired by current events as flares in a time of blindness.