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Waterfall

Federico Herrero
Proyectos Ultravioleta 
Guatemala City, Guatemala

In his first individual exhibition in Guatemala, Federico Herrero seeks to distance himself from his well-known line of work in order to explore a series of sculptural forms that materialize in cement. This formal and investigative exercise supposes a new possibility in his work that adds to his most well-known pictorial interventions.

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Federico Herrero (Costa Rica, 1978) is considered one of the most important figures of Latin American contemporary art. His artistic work is influenced by politics, cultural tradition and the natural fecundity of Costa Rica, the country in which he lives and works. Herrero transfers the colors and forms of the dense landscape that surrounds his native city, San José, to different supports such as walls and canvases. At the same time, a very intense interaction between geometric and organic forms is perceived in the spaces between the figurative and the abstract. Federico Herrero is particularly interested in the interface between culture and nature, carefully monitoring the urban environment of Costa Rica that often seems to be on the verge of being claimed by the incessant local flora. This is evident in much of his on-site work, in which a staircase or the corner of a room can be “reclaimed” by the different organic forms of his work. In it, the regional tradition of muralism is mixed with different sources of inspiration, including traffic signage, tropical plants, multi-colored houses in rural areas and suburbs, graffiti, old signs and different media such as advertising. . All this is based on an unusual mixture of traditional and folkloric elements with sophisticated and abstract forms.
In 2001 Herrero received a Golden Lion as best young artist of the Venice Biennial. He has had numerous individual exhibitions in museums around the world, including venues in Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain. His work is part of multiple collections worldwide, including the Mudam Luxembourg, the Santander Museum in Spain, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan.

Other exhibitions by these artists at Proyectos Ultravioleta: