Timeless

Hernán Cédola with Supracolor II –Faber Castell Installation at Timeless exhibition, 2009. Double layer synthetic enamel on wood with engraving. 39” x 2” x 2” each.

By María Carolina Baulo

Hernán Cédola is a young Argentine artist who recently participated of his first solo exhibition in the Wynwood Art District of Miami. With previous studies in painting, drawing, photography, engraving and printed art at the University of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, he is still honing his craft. His work was awarded the National Grant in Plastic Arts in 2006, and has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and art fairs in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Europe.

Timeless, the installation at the Dot Fiftyone Gallery, presented oversized sculptures of wooden colored pencils and oil drawings. The artist’s point of view assumes a deep connection between personal experiences and the possibility of translating them into artworks. This would not be so different from other artists’ works, but for the idea of connecting with the personal experience of the spectator, trying to associate all of us irrespective of nationality or cultural background. This is the main significance of his art. Emotions appear in each spectator facing those enormous colored pencils, which evoke school days.

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This exhibition made us remember our childhoods. No matter where we were, we all had something in common. The large proportions Cédola uses to create these pieces turn us into little kids: we are not adults anymore; we recreate the world from our past. In Timeless, Hernán Cédola invited us to lose every reference of time, but not of space. We clearly found ourselves in those primitive places that shaped our manners and social behavior and then “came back to the present” to face the way in which we managed to use what we were supposed to learn. His aesthetic combines concepts and ideas with an expressionist point of view: rational criteria which specifically pretend to question and understand our reality, together with the artist’s deepest impressions stamped on each piece. It was an exhibition where the main attractions were the harmless paintings hanging on the walls, the shavings all over the place and pencils left behind as if the owner had just run off to watch TV. However, the underlying message relates to our responsibility as adults, continually making choices to build and destroy the world that surrounds us, and not as kids who left those pencils behind long ago.

María Carolina Baulo: Art writer, Master’s Degree in History of Art, with studies in Cinematography, Photography and Theatre. macabaulo@hotmail.com

“Timeless… by Hernán Cédola” (April, 9 - June, 20, 2009) Dot Fiftyone Gallery. 51 NW 36th Street. Miami, FL. 33127. Phone 305 573 9994. www.dotfiftyone.com