{"id":93168,"date":"2018-09-26T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=93168"},"modified":"2020-09-18T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:08:56","slug":"rodrigo-hernandez-at-pivo-the-abstract-nun-looks-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/09\/26\/rodrigo-hernandez-at-pivo-the-abstract-nun-looks-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Hern\u00e1ndez at Piv\u00f4: the abstract nun looks sensual"},"content":{"rendered":"

The practice of Mexican-born artist Rodrigo Hern\u00e1ndez is grounded on various historical references and anecdotes. Take for instance his 2017 solo show at Berlin\u2019s Chert L\u00fcdde gallery, titled J\u2019aime Eva<\/em> (I Love Eva, in free translation), which placed a collage that Pablo Picasso produced during the summer of 1912 \u2013 allegedly the sole one he made that season \u2013 as its starting point. Guitar: J\u2019aime Eva<\/em> was the Spaniard\u2019s homage to his then lover Marcelle Humbert (aka Eva); by its turn, the work is said to\u2019ve been somehow inspired by a painting authored by Henri Rousseau \u2013 the Douanier who once famously told Picasso: \u2018you and I are the two most important artists of the age \u2013 you in the Egyptian style, and I in the modern one\u2019. Within Rodrigo Hern\u00e1ndez vocabulary, these events were translated into eight works, all bearing Eva in its titles, spanning techniques such as collage, drawing and painting. The process to create The Real World Does Not Take Flight, his current exhibition at Piv\u00f4, in Sao Paulo,<\/a> follows the same modus operandi.<\/p>\n\n\t\t