Secundino Hernández is a Spanish painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2000). In 2005 and 2006 he was a scholar at the Spanish Academy in Rome and a year later he won the Caja Madrid 2007 Generation Prize. His work explores the possibilities of painting by examining its essential elements: line, form and colour. Hernández has gradually created a fundamentally visual language in which each of those elements is studied in detail. Thus, his work ranges from palette squares to compositions where lines predominate. He has worked with oil, watercolour and charcoal. In keeping with the above, his painting is spontaneous and immediate only in appearance: research cannot be done ad hoc. Thus, Hernández’s work is based on meticulous forethought and draws on a delicate technical precision to transfer the sketch to the fabric; he sometimes includes written texts in his works as a syntactic structure for organisation, thus incorporating the process of execution into the work itself.
Hernández’s work has mainly been exhibited in Spain at solo shows at the Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery in Madrid since 2006, such as the one in which he unveiled his series dedicated to El Greco’s Apostles in 2013; and internationally in galleries in Vienna, Helsinki, Porto, Berlin, Frankfurt and London. He took part in the La Paz Biennial (2007) and recently exhibited at the Maison Louis Carré (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France, 2014), the National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid (2014) and at the YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2015).
Secundino Hernández is a Spanish painter who graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2000). In 2005 and 2006 he was a scholar at the Spanish Academy in Rome and a year later he won the Caja Madrid 2007 Generation Prize. His work explores the possibilities of painting by examining its essential elements: line, form and colour. Hernández has gradually created a fundamentally visual language in which each of those elements is studied in detail. Thus, his work ranges from palette squares to compositions where lines predominate. He has worked with oil, watercolour and charcoal. In keeping with the above, his painting is spontaneous and immediate only in appearance: research cannot be done ad hoc. Thus, Hernández’s work is based on meticulous forethought and draws on a delicate technical precision to transfer the sketch to the fabric; he sometimes includes written texts in his works as a syntactic structure for organisation, thus incorporating the process of execution into the work itself.
Hernández’s work has mainly been exhibited in Spain at solo shows at the Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery in Madrid since 2006, such as the one in which he unveiled his series dedicated to El Greco’s Apostles in 2013; and internationally in galleries in Vienna, Helsinki, Porto, Berlin, Frankfurt and London. He took part in the La Paz Biennial (2007) and recently exhibited at the Maison Louis Carré (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France, 2014), the National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid (2014) and at the YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2015).