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until 02.11. | #4436ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from Wednesday, 11. September 2024 the exhibtions of the artist Joan Hernández Pijuan.
„Pijuan’s surfaces are physical. They have meaningful underneaths.
Their physical thickness facilitates the metaphysical depths that belongs to the work…
His surfaces are build up for the disclosing what is underneath.“ (Arthur C. Danto)
Joan Hernández Pijuan (1931-2005 Barcelona) had his first museum exhibition in Mataró in 1955, curated by Santos Torroella, one of Spain’s leading art critics. Participated in the 1960 and 1970 Venice Biennales. 1989 Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Major presentation in the Spanish Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Seville in 1992. 1993 Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid. 2003 Retrospective in several European museums, starting at the Museu d’Art Contemporani in Barcelona.
1998, Gouache auf Japanpapier, 29 x 39 cm
Consolidation of his position as one of the most important Spanish artists of the second half of the 20th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquire works. 2005, the year of the artist’s death, special presentation with Agnes Martin at the 51st Venice Biennale.
2007 Gallery catalogue on Hernández Pijuan. It contains, among other things, the German version of an essay by the American philosopher and art theorist Arthur C. Danto, who emphasises the importance of Hernández Pijuan against the background of American painting. A further publication with an extensive biography will follow in 2014.
Vernissage: Wednesday, 11 September, 11:00 – 18:00
Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 11 September until Saturday, 02 November 2024
Caption title: Enllaç sobre negre, 2001, Öl auf Leinwand, 114 x 146 cm
Exhibtion Joan Hernández Pijuan – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibtions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
