About The Work
In Las Bodas, Herrera draws inspiration from one of his favorite ballets, Igor Stravinsky’s 1917 masterpiece Les Noces (The Wedding). He employs selected score pages and a documentation photograph of an outdoor rehearsal as the base for his drawings. The use of historical material evokes memory and the vitality and performative power of dance. By fragmenting and partially obscuring the background, Herrera creates abstract fields which suggest bodies and lines of dance in motion. He contrasts the found material with his own drawing, limiting himself to only two colors in each print, and the boundaries of the score pages. He is respectful of the notations, as the paint in each layer is transparent enough to read them. While this process may seem disciplined, the drawings beam with unbound freedom, spontaneity and excitement which recall Stravinsky’s powerful and relentless music score. The drawings are the music of the suite.
Herrera developed Las Bodas working with former Lower East Side Printshop staff Erik Hougen and Dusica Kirjakovic for nearly two years. Always welcoming of a good challenge, Herrera has methodically and masterfully thought through each detail of this ambitious project. Printed as screenprints on two collaged sheets of paper, each print measures 15.5 x 22 inches (39.5 x 56 cm) image and sheet, 31 x 88 inches total (79 x 224 cm) installation.
Courtesy of Lower East Side Print Shop
About Arturo Herrera
From The Magazine
Suite of 8 screenprint collages
15.50 x 22.00 in
39.4 x 55.9 cm
This work is signed by the artist in pencil, and is embossed with the publisher's printing chop.
About The Work
In Las Bodas, Herrera draws inspiration from one of his favorite ballets, Igor Stravinsky’s 1917 masterpiece Les Noces (The Wedding). He employs selected score pages and a documentation photograph of an outdoor rehearsal as the base for his drawings. The use of historical material evokes memory and the vitality and performative power of dance. By fragmenting and partially obscuring the background, Herrera creates abstract fields which suggest bodies and lines of dance in motion. He contrasts the found material with his own drawing, limiting himself to only two colors in each print, and the boundaries of the score pages. He is respectful of the notations, as the paint in each layer is transparent enough to read them. While this process may seem disciplined, the drawings beam with unbound freedom, spontaneity and excitement which recall Stravinsky’s powerful and relentless music score. The drawings are the music of the suite.
Herrera developed Las Bodas working with former Lower East Side Printshop staff Erik Hougen and Dusica Kirjakovic for nearly two years. Always welcoming of a good challenge, Herrera has methodically and masterfully thought through each detail of this ambitious project. Printed as screenprints on two collaged sheets of paper, each print measures 15.5 x 22 inches (39.5 x 56 cm) image and sheet, 31 x 88 inches total (79 x 224 cm) installation.
Courtesy of Lower East Side Print Shop
About Arturo Herrera
From The Magazine
- Each sheet is sized 15.5 x 22 inches; installation size is 31.0 x 80.0 inches unframed.
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