José Hernandez displays a Baroque imagery in his paintings and drawings, mingling life and death with golds, which might appear as decadent but which is in fact the ultimate vanity of being. This is how this awesome artist succeeds for horror to rub elbows with sublime.
José Hernandez : a few landmarks
Born in Tangiers in 1944, he held his first solo exhibition in 1962. Painter and etcher, his has an impressive curriculum, showing in Madrid and in Paris regularly. He has illustrated many art books and conceived many stage design for the theatre. He is a member of the Spanish Royal Society of Fine Art, as well as of the European Academy of Science, Fine Art and Litterature.
