Arturo Herrera (Spanish and English Edition)

Providing a comprehensive look at the artist’s work, Arturo Herrera accompanied his solo exhibition at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela in 2005. Herrera’s oeuvre includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with abstract shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection. Using techniques of fragmentation, splicing, and re-contextualization, Herrera’s work is provocative and open-ended. The artist often employs found images from cartoons, coloring books, and fairy tales, combining fragments of Disney-like characters with violent and sexual imagery to make work that borders between figuration and abstraction and subverts the innocence of cartoon referents with a darker psychology.