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REVIEWS ABOUT THE WORK OF JOSE A. HERNANDEZ
"Dear Master Hernández,
Receive my greeting and congratulation by the success of your art show at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cali, which you installed in tribute to Valle and the joy in life.
I animate you to continue bring it to the Country and the world the master of your art, which looks to promote the cordiality of a new notion of society, and a new model of coexistence.
Cordially, ALVARO URIBE VÉLEZ President of Colombia” Bogotá D.C., October 24 of 2003 His vocation by painting is absolute, visceral, and arises in each pigment…
There is an interior volcanic energy in the work of Hernandez, in his figurative reality and also in his intimate and personal visions…
In both visions is the colorful and tropic joy, the balance from who knows the work in oil or acrylic and also in watercolor…
His technique run by the roads that we can catalogue to the expressionism, but only in the applicative way, because the evocative strong of color and its specific warm is to our artist like the blood which runs by his veins…
There is in every piece of work from José Alberto Hernandez a quantity of energy contents, a tremendous happiness before the life and the gift of God which means the art, a fantastic balance between the way and the content, in synthesis the seriousness from who knows in the middle of difficulties, those he has surpassed with dedication and efforts y give life to us from the lives expressed in their paints.”
Inauguration Speech of the Providencia Cultural Institute Director, Oswaldo Rivera Riffo Santiago, Chile.
. . . The artist extracts from his personality a point of observation of his Colombia, where it is possible to find gentle and violent contrasts simultaneously. . . For Hernández, the subject is absorbed by his surroundings; it is not an essential element, although he uses it in such a way that it is considered an element of prime importance.
The artist extracts a richness of faraway particularity, to our sensibility, more attentive to the issue and to generality than to toning down.
The use of colour technique is almost of expressionist naturalness, how to individualize. . .they are never defined in a precise outline.
BRUNO BOCCALETTI, A BRIDGE WITH THE SPANISH LANGUAGE, People’s Journal, Lugano, Switzerland, Art Section, page 29, April 29th, 1998, Artwork published: José Arcadio, at Your Service
“José Hernández cames from a painters family. His Father, Luis Hernández, was a very famous painter in Colombia, that when dying leave to his son his greater inheritance: the respect by the human person, the love to the life and the facility to paint that in agreement to the Master is a Gift from God…. …. A paint Exhibition that transfer us to our past, to the town streets when we born and grew up, to the market, the port, mountains and its environs”.
ALEXANDRA VILCHES.. THE ART OF MY TOWN. Sun Sentinel, Weekly . Florida. USA. October 22 of 1999. ART. Page 4 (Picture: The Artist next to its work)
“The first impression was strong and colourful,…..
… The colours seem fluorescent, and the paintings were not filled with detail.
…And Hernández has constantly wanted to know whether or not he has been able to reach the other people with his messages. Yet, he does not like to discuss his art with other.”
KARIN MORALES PORTRAYING VITALITY OF SMALL TOWNS IN LATIN AMERICA. www.elsitio.com November 1 of 1999. Art section. Page1 to 4. Artwork Published: Unloading the Suggling “Matute”, Partners Toast.
“He did well in Miami, selling13 of his 26 works there...
….That’s because Hernández´s work is increasingly being show around the world.”
MARIAN DOZIER, ART ON THE MENU AT RESTAURANT. Sun Sentinel South Florida. December 30 of 1999. Free Time Section, Page 8B. Artwork Published: The Artist with “Unloading the Smuggling “Matute”.
“Artist brings Colombian culture to Boca.”
SKIP SHEFFIELD Boca Raton News. January 21 of 2000. Page 12E. Artwork Published. Partners Toast, Blanket of Pieces, Dominical Market.
“Their outlines definitively aim at that he is a Master of the brush. Only to watch each work, each one made on great format...
...His effort is doubly surprising, cause his use the watercolour and oil to make the the magic on the canvas.”
ARIEL CHAVES GONZÁLEZ. THAT COMES FROM COLOMBIA. La Prensa Libre. San José Costa Rica. May 26 of 2000. Revista Abanico. Page 5. Artwork Published: Partners Toast.
“Colombian artist José Alberto Hernández brings out the cheerful side of everyday life in his home country and uses vivid colours to emphasize the intense emotion in his paintings.“
HilARY BROWDER. SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS. The Tico Times. San José, Costa Rica. June 16 of 2000. Weekend, Page W-5. Artwork Published: The Rest Time.
“ Like this he want to be remember José Alberto Hernández Mejía, Young Colombian painter with his singular propose is developing a new style of watercolour, intense colours y much more emotive, separating form the conventional treatment, of which it has been object for a long time… This sacrificed process whereupon makes its art, is the reason that considers has allowed him to harvest triumphs as much inside as outside the boundary of his country.”
LUCRECIA ALFARO JOSÉ ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ: THE PAINTER OF THE LIGTH. Revista: Estilos y Casas. Año 4 # 3. June of 2000. Pages: 48 –53. Artwork Published: Colcha de Retazos, Natal Town, Truly Partners, Small Square of the Histories.
“When appreciating his artworks, you can see the ability and neatness of each brushed. The colour use is plentiful, but not excessive, creating in each of his exhibitions an energy hale. José Alberto Hernández´s paintings are a permanent joyful apology. Each of his canvas reveal the emotion intensity of the artist when catching these perspectives.”
THE MAGNITUDES OF THE COLOR: Paintings of José Alberto Hernández are a permanente vindication to the Joy. The Press: Magazine. Panama City, Panama. November 19 of 2000. (Artwork Published: Arriving the Merchandise, To Remember is to Life).
“One and have year ago past by Costa Rica leaving a great impression by means of his art. Today He returns once again, from his native Colombia, to give us another art exhibition, within which is an important pictorial proposal of Costa Rica.”
ARIEL GONZÁLEZ CHÁVEZ, COUNTRY INSPIRES TO COLOMBIAN. La Prensa Libre, Revista Abanico. San José, Costa Rica. November 3 of 2001. Page 2. Artwork Published: Sunrise in the Lagoon.
“....Whether the painting is of a jungle enclave, a colourful Latin American city or a seemingly simple fusion of colours within a pretty shape, every one of José’s works carries, beneath the surface, a more profound meaning that is the utterance of his soul. The paintings relay different emotions or messages to each individual, as we are all unique, and therefore we interpret unidentifiable (abstract) images differently, depending on the emotions that are stirred within us.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that more than half of the artist’s collection has already been sold. Which also goes to suggest, why not allow yourself to be indulged in a tour, led in person, by José Alberto Hernández? It is an experience that I would wish, in good will, on everyone.
VIVIANNE ROMANG. JOSÉ ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ: VIVID COLLECTION OF WATERCOLOUR. Central America Weekly. San José, Costa Rica. November of 2001, No. 170, Vol 4. Página 3. Artwork Published: Virgin Rest, Arriving by Real Street.
“You talk to this guy and you feel afraid. There is a breath of imperishable certainty about him, a vocation for painting that bursts from every pore, an inner energy, a spitfire of irreverence, a treachery in his smile and an indication that his kingdom is not of this world, that when you discover the few years that barely weigh on his shoulders, then you will learn that there is an architect in there who has decided to give it all up in order to throw himself wholeheartedly to the abysmal depths of watercolour and colour.
And the envy eats you up, sure, because the guy’s got balls...you need a lot of valor and integrity to decide that there is nothing more important in this world than to be a witness of landscapes and beings and shadows and transform them with your own vision and give them a different life with your paintbrush.
But this irrevocable decision to bet everything on art isn’t the only thing that moves you. It is also a sort of aberration, that hallucinating desperation, that orgasmic warmth with which José Alberto Hernández talks about watercolour.
ALBERTO MORALES G. Morales y Cia.
“With the great sensitivity shown in each brushstroke in each painting, José Alberto Hernández continues to mature his artistic conception, to the point of reflecting in his new watercolour production, the result of a purified evolution and of artwork done conscientiously and with much discipline.”
LILIANA VELEZ, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MAKE A MISTAKE IN WATERCOLOUR, El Colombiano Newspaper, Cultural Section, page 14A, September 12th, 1987. Artwork Published: Sunday Market and Santa Bárbara.
“Once more, we must pause before his landscapes, perhaps where this young architect’s, José Alberto Hernández, best work is found. He intends to go as far with his art as his impetus will throw him, towards the search for the essence of things.”
OFELIA LUZ DE VILLA, PUTTING WATERCOLOUR BACK IN VOGUE: a redeeming pretense by José Alberto Hernández, El Colombiano Newspaper, Cultural Section, page 1B, May 4th, 1988, Artwork Published: A Day at the Market and The Gambler
“His work strays from the traditional concept that surrounds this technique... After wandering through unpolluted places, Hernández shapes our country’s sentimental geography in his watercolours, places we could never imagine, the new scenes that surround the experiences of the peoples who fight to find their place in this world.”
BEATRIZ GOMEZ, THE ESTHETICS OF SIMPLE PEOPLE, El Colombiano Newspaper, Cultural Section, page 8B, November 9th, 1988, Artwork Published: Gossip and The Wind’s Backyard
“Life exists and faith in life grows upon seeing José A. Hernández’ watercolours. These are paintings that are not erased because they remain intact, even beneath our eyelids. As in Gabriel García Márquez and Manuel Mejía Vallejo’s narrations, where they claim that it is we who sit there or a path to illusion.”
JOSE GUILLERMO ANGEL, PAINTING TO THE RESCUE OF LOST FACES, or “How José Alberto Hernández Discovered Another Skin”, El Colombiano Newspaper, Cultural Section, page 9, November 13th, 1988, Artwork Published: Wide Opening
“His idea is to carry his canvas, travel throughout Colombia, stop at a plaza or on a beach, take his paintbrush, prepare his munitions of colour, and steal someone else’s stories, in order to share them with people later...such as the tents, without human faces, with insinuated figures, which undoubtedly speak of a town market plaza on a Sunday, or the front of a wooden house, with ferns and not very obvious plants, that demonstrates a spirit of the houses before coming to live in Medellin, as well as the watercolours of José Alberto Hernández.”
LUZ MARINA LONDOÑO, CONCEPTUAL WATERCOLOURS, El Mundo Newspaper, Cultural Magazine, page 3B, September 13th, 1989, Artwork Published: To the Beat of the Years
“When speaking of the spirit extend, through colour and the feeling, I can well talk about to a latent and vital way to the artwork of José Alberto Hernández, who has acquired an identity of original style and singular in all the elements that constitute the colourful manifestation of their fluid trowel.”
CONNY ROJAS SANIN, THE ART VITALITY. El Mundo. Medellin, Colombia. October 28 of 2000. Life Section. Artwork Published: Sunset in blanket of Pieces, Arriving the merchandise, Abundance on the tropic.
“The vivid y brightly colours used, is the author’s way to reflect the reality by means of a very personal glance, to think about lived thing and by living.”
OF THE COLOUR TO THE FEELING: A Creation of Oils and Watercolours. La Patria. Manizales, Colombia. June 5 of 2003. Variedades Section. Page 4b.
“....his works has extended the figurative subject and already it has character that identifies it, characteristicas that allow us to recognize an artist’s art work before seeing the signature, that’s why says the Master José Alberto Hernández has his own style.”
AMPARO RESTREPO. A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE: Jose Hernandez Exhibition in El Castillo Museum. El Mundo, Medellin. October 3 of 2003. La Metro Section. Page B/2. Artwork Published: Contact with Love, Raising the Hill, Meditating, Colombia Land Dear.
“The happy that radiates in his faces and thru that strong colours which they make dance of joy the retina, is the one that is sharing this professional with the “Caleños**”.
ELENA ARISMENDY, Optimistic Brushed El Pais. Cali. Colombia. October 21 of 2003. VIVIR Section. Page C. Artwork published : Water Beach, Raising the Hill, House in Flower.
**Caleños: People from Cali, Colombia.
“He is a proud artist, not only about his work, also about his country and is for this reason he does not rest is his labor as a Cultural Ambassador of Colombia to the World”
El Tiempo. Bogotá. Colombia.
“A contrast between the silence and the color vehemence… with the same skill with he paints a marine landscape, the radiance of the sunset in the sea, the tropic vegetation, in the same way he create works with a lot of expressive finesse when immerse in atmospheres and contrast.”
GUSTAVO TATIS. El Universal. Cartagena. Colombia.
“His work reflects the heat and color fresh, which is a interesting artistic propose for this winter days”.
Enterarte.cl Chile. “A language close to the Caribbean coast, through a direct and conceptual art allows to the spectator feeling the art work, and decode the story which is hiding in its interior. In his paintings, the characters do not have faces, but no matter the theme and technique they transport the spectator to a World full of joy, optimism and peace.” HERNANDO BALLESTEROS THE FIGURATIVE ART OF "CARIBE COLOR". El Heraldo, Barranquilla, Colombia. April 11 of 2006. Section: Education / Culture, (Art work Published: Ritmo al Respirar, Con Viento a Favor) “The Jose Hernandez’s art make us to feel like in home, a depth blues sea, where the fish labor seems interminable in front the ocean immensity, with tanned skins men by the sun and luminous clothes, references this Caribbean with intense colors, full of life, like the paintings of this Colombian artist”. PAINTINGS FULL OF COLOR AND LIFE AT THE BOLIVARIAN MUSEUM. El Informador, Santa Marta, Colombia. April 5 of 2006. (Art Work Publisher: Amigas en Descanso, Desembarco)
“Oils on Canvas and watercolors gather different series about the sea and its protagonists, but also about the mountain farmers of his native Antioquia, and recently, oils becomes in a pretext for the color expression, great planes with luminous colors intercrossed and mixed in attractive compositions with unimaginable colors, creating clouds and fields landscapes turned into an abstraction full of amazing colors”. PAINTINGS OF JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ AT THE BOLIVARIAN MUSEUM. HOY Diario del Magdalena. Santa Marta, Colombia. April 3 of 2006, (Art Work Publisher: Desembarco, Frutos de mi tierra, Recodo en Paz, Subida en Colores).
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