Manuel Hernández

Seen from today, Manuel Hernández's solid artistic career seems to be marked by an obsessive fidelity to the signs he uses and the deep spiritual impact they produce. Signs that, without haste, were conquering and settling in the space of his canvases forever. Abstract without extenuation, Hernández's work is completely alien to any attempt at representation, without this at all conflicting with the plenitude of suggestions it opens up or the world of evocations it provokes. Despite its apparently simple theme and deceptive uniformity, this artist's work has achieved what few achieve: identity. An unmistakable and persistent identity. Nothing in the work of Manuel Hernández could be attributable to another artist. His work, as Camilo Calderón beautifully explains, “was made silently and tenaciously in the workshop, with only dialogue between creator and work.” Therefore, reviewing it in this book constitutes, without a doubt, an act of happiness.