Pipo Hernandez Rivero

PIPO HERNÁNDEZ RIVERO (Telde, Gran Canaria), 1966.
Untitled, 2003.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on the side.
Measurements: 100 x 100.

Pipo Hernandez Rivero's works raise doubts about any kind of cultural certainty. Constructed with images and ideas anchored in modern culture, his works move in the territory of suspicion and opacity. Pointing out the complexity of the possibilities of painting in the 21st century, his work offers a reconsideration of the pictorial from formal and conceptual structures under which underlie references to the failure of the cultural avant-garde while showing that often the standardization of certain discourses generates exclusion of voices. Mixing painting with materials of all kinds, and involving texts in languages that escape our reading, from a Western perspective, his pieces place us in environments associated with political issues, confronting the viewer with an unresolved dialogue and forcing him to rethink the notions of identity and value. He has exhibited at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundación MARSO, Museo de Arte de Pereira, ARTIUM Museoa, Centro de Arte La Recova, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, Fundación Otazu, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, Prague Art Museum and the Sala de Arte Contemporáneo de Tenerife. He has also participated in biennials such as the Havana Biennial, the Biennial of the Canary Islands and the Dakar Biennial.