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URBANISM

Danza of the efecto urbano II, 1996, OIL AND GRAPHITE ON CANVAS, 96 x 70 INCHES
Effecto urbano, 1996, OIL AND GRAPHITE ON CANVAS, 96 x 70 INCHES
You have created this world to your image, 2003, OIL AND CANVAS, 15 x 15 INCHES
Entregando corazones, 2006, OIL AND CANVAS, 15 x 15 INCHES
No somos de plástico, 2009, OIL ON CANVAS, 36 x 30 INCHES
Industrial umbilical cord, 2010, OIL AND COLLAGE ON CANVAS, 45 x 40 INCHES
Urbanismo, 2011, OIL ON CANVAS, 40 X 60 INCHES
I am a ram, 2014, OIL ON CANVAS, 60 x 50 INCHES

Consumer Man by Ethel Cooke

The paintings by Ricardo Santos Hernández reproduce the hysterical existence of a humanity of disposables. Here, art serves a chronicling function of its time, its philosophy and the individual perception of the artist as a man living within his reality, which is no more than a partial vision of everyone else's. This part of Hernández vision is painted for us with dislocated forms and spaces in devastation. He strikes our face with his criticism and shame, with fleshless figures dying in their own creation. He ulcerates our pupils with fornicated subsoils, violated by the irresponsible foolishness of man. The paintings by Hernández enclose the apocalyptic fear, the revision of a millennium's end, and the desperate scream of a soul sedated by a limbo consumerism and disposable conscience. The visceral and hysterical theme of Santos Hernández is defined by a well applied and understood technical discipline. With a searching use of materials he reaches closer to the thematic mood of his work. The compositions are startling with the dominant presence of the figures that disturb and throb in the dying, ethereal space. These works are not for "liking," but to fulfill the critical presence of an eye that looks through each and every man's Pandora' s box. Only by disturbing with screams of pigment and grotesque beauty can this side of art remove the disposable memory of man, and the artist traverse his own lesson, which is not but our own.

Ethel Cooke is from Nogales, Sonora México

RECENT POSTS

  • Fracked at Las Lagunas Gallery
  • Urban Echo La Frontera en el Corazón Exhibition
  • Saturday, June 6, 2015 : 5 – 9 PM : ADENTRO
  • February 13, 2015 : Urban Flashback Artist Talk
  • Ricardo Santos Hernández: Pintor de Mexamérica
  • Urban Flashback: Prospectus Art Gallery Exhibit
  • A Fatalistic Allegory: A Crucifix by Ricardo Santos Hernández

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