Vicente Herrero Heca (V. Heca)

ABOUT MY PAINTINGS
by Vicente Herrero Heca

In my paintings I contemplate seemingly inanimate objects—glass marbles, wrinkled paper, small pebbles, and other items forming strange portraits that evoke a whole existence, all on a flat background that contrasts with their delicate texture painted in hyperrealistic style. This contrast between a flat surface and other textures is particularly strong when I paint paper or creased material, thus dividing the painting into two completely delimited areas, giving an aesthetic and modern outlook on the meaning of man’s duality, the yin and yang, positive and negative. The sphere or glass marble found in nearly all my paintings represents the nexus that links the elements of the whole work and symbolizes the human being. Each viewer, studying the meaning of these object-symbols in depth, will discover and decipher the message in a personal way, different from the artist’s, therefore transforming the spectator into a creator.

Curriculum Vitae

—Education:

Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of San Carlos, Valencia, Spain
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, B.A. in Fine Arts,
Instituto Ciencias de la Educación, completed C.A.P. (pedagogical aptitude course)
Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York
Alpha Holographics and New York Holographic Laboratories

—Was resident artist at Altos de Chavón, Dominican Repulic, sponsored by Gulf & Western Co.

—Has taught drawing and painting in Europe and America

—Works in the following collections:

Royal Bank of Canada
Circulo Cultural de España, New York
Altos de Chavon Foundation, Dominican Republic
Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Mallorca, Spain

—Numerous individual and collective exhibitions from 1971, in Spain, U.S.A. (New York), and the Dominican Republic

Next show of V. Heca's work: June 15-26, 2009

An international group exhibition dedicated to Justo Gallego, who is constructing his own cathedral in Mejorada del Campo, near Madrid.

Opening: June 15, at 7 PM.

WHERE: Sala de Exposiciones del Instituto Municipal de Cultura y Juventud, in Burjassot, Valencia. Address: Calle Mariana Pineda 93-95, Burjassot.

“…We stand before works of art of impressive technical command, representations that display an undisputed formality, verging on hyperrealism but endowed with an aura of magic and poetry—and, we cannot deny, devoid of any complacency. The series of inanimate objects take on a life of their own; arrayed on the canvas by the artist’s hand, they speak of their geological and mineral past, but at the same time are saved in extremis from becoming fossilized. They are alive, they speak to us about the decisive intervention of creative thought, about the economy of emotions which is art, the syntax that enriches us each time we question the painting; for its mystery will always remain hidden and there will always be something left to discover.”

—Ramón Molina, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Mallorca

Review

“Medium: plastic arts. Style: hyperrealism. Specialty: airbrush technique. Virtuosity: chiaroscuro. These are some of the words that come to mind in describing the work and personal style of the inimitable Vicente Herrero Cáceres (V. Heca).

“But there are others as well: soul-objects ... mysterious ... enigmatic ... spacious ... poetic. . . .

“Beyond the limits of this carefully considered reality, Heca’s inanimate objects are transformed into characters in a highly ordered, fantastic composition, at times pervaded by a strange mystery. These elements of his iconography seem tacitly positioned as if awaiting the curious complicity of the astonished spectator who contemplates them.

“Are the painted objects perhaps real? Where do they come from, these hyperrealistic associations that so quietly disquiet me? Do these characters belong to another world … or solely to the world of Vicente Heca … ?”

—Alberto Sanchez "Nadroj," artist and founder of Grupo Arcadia 2012

Vicente Herrero Heca (V. Heca)

09 July 2009

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