Magenta (2007) Painting by Mjesushernandez

When the secular heritage of more than five hundred years of Art History is reviewed based on the conceptual postulates inherited from the latest trends in contemporary art, a solid and fruitful interstitial space is built for the development of a personal pictorial discourse.

This positioning is materialized in an intelligent and clarifying way in the work of M. Jesús Hernández, who coherently combines the perfect symbiosis between tradition and modernity, transmitting in his works a deep sensitive dialogue between some of the most representative works in the history of the universal art, passed through the sieve of the internal gaze of an artist of his time.

Its plastic diction and materiality give it its own unique direction, inherited from the European and Anglo-Saxon post-avant-garde movements and personalized through the Spanish pictorial tradition. The Lands, blacks, gold and silver in the work of M. Jesús Hernández invite us to travel through the tradition of European expressionism, from Goya to the present day.

From the inside of his gaze, M. Jesús Hernández shows us the landscapes of his memory, and almost alchemically, converts them into images of our collective memory. It is an exercise in pure abstraction, in which the latent image of the classic work is impregnated in our visual system in a timeless and permanent way. This happy symbiosis can be seen in paintings like “Blue, Pink and Gold” in which the sensitive message reaches us directly from the chromatic synthesis of the combination of the entire visual experience. M. Jesús Hernández synthesizes the narrative message of a universal Renaissance work such as “The Annunciation” by Fra Angélico and translates it into contemporary plastic language through a naked and pure chromatic sensation, in which the plastic material is presented to us closely and exuberantly. vital.

The plastic work of this artist speaks to us about painting in an absolutely renewed sense, which overflows with joy and life, and invites us to contemplation. In a digital universe like the current one, in which the image has been distorted by the accumulation of visual stimuli from the mass media and the revolution of technological hypercommunication, it is happily hopeful that an artist like M. Jesús Hernández invites us to slow down our gaze, to recreate ourselves in the pure exercise of contemplation of painting, as an authentic sincere and truthful reflection of the sensitive experience of the interior landscapes that we all carry within us.


Norberto González

• Nationality: SPAIN
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Spanish Artists