
Installation view, Federico Herrero, Volume, James Cohan, 291 Grand St, January 17 - February 23, 2020
Installation view, Federico Herrero, Volume, James Cohan, 291 Grand St, January 17 - February 23, 2020
Installation view, Federico Herrero, Volume, James Cohan, 291 Grand St, January 17 - February 23, 2020
FEDERICO HERRERO
Monstera
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
78 3/4 x 63 in.
200 x 160 cm
JCG11266
FEDERICO HERRERO
Laguna mental
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
86 5/8 x 78 3/4 in.
220 x 200 cm
JCG11267
FEDERICO HERRERO
Sin título
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
15 3/4 x 25 1/4 in.
40 x 64 cm
JCG11264
FEDERICO HERRERO
Moon Bird
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
86 5/8 x 94 1/2 x in.
220 x 240 cm.
JCG11117
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2019
oil and acrylic on canvas
65 x 59 1/8 in.
165 x 150 cm
JCG11075
FEDERICO HERRERO
Landscape
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
60 x 84 in.
152.4 x 213.4 cm
JCG11028
FEDERICO HERRERO
Cangri
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
94 1/2 x 106 1/4 in.
240 x 270 cm
JCG10408
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
74 3/4 x 70 7/8 in.
189.9 x 180 cm
JCG10407
FEDERICO HERRERO
Caravan
2018
Oil and acrylic on canvas
118 x 157 3/8 in.
300 x 400 cm
JCG10080
FEDERICO HERRERO
Flava
2018
Oil and acrylic on canvas
94 3/8 x 86 3/4 in.
239.7 x 220.3 cm
JCG10075
FEDERICO HERRERO
Landscape with Pyramids
2018
Oil, acrylic on canvas
78 5/8 x 63 in.
200 x 160 cm
JCG9730
FEDERICO HERRERO
Iman
2018
Oil, acrylic on canvas
70 3/4 x 74 3/4 in.
180 x 190 cm
JCG9728
FEDERICO HERRERO
Lava
2018
Oil, acrylic on canvas
74 3/4 x 70 3/4 in.
190 x 180 cm
JCG9727
FEDERICO HERRERO
Body Geometry
2018
Oil, acrylc on canvas
26 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.
67 x 55 cm
JCG9725
FEDERICO HERRERO
El Sol
2018
Oil, acrylic on canvas
35 3/8 x 39 1/4 in.
90 x 100 cm
JCG9726
FEDERICO HERRERO
Alphabet, site-specific installation for the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2018
FEDERICO HERRERO
Alphabet, site-specific installation for the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2018
FEDERICO HERRERO
Alphabet, site-specific installation for the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2018
Instalaltion view: First Day of Good Weather, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2017
Installation view: Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today, South London Gallery, UK, 2016
Installation view: Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today, South London Gallery, UK, 2016
Instalaltion view: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2011
Installation view, Letras y Volúmenes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2014
Installation view, Letras y Volúmenes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2014
Installation view, Letras y Volúmenes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2014
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2014
Oil on canvas
59 x 78 3/4 in.
150 x 200 cm
FEDERICO HERRERO
Pan de Azucar
2014
Oil on canvas
59 x 65 in.
150 x 165 cm
Installation view: El Bowl, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2014
Installation view: El Bowl, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2014
Installation view, Catarata, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013
Installation view, Catarata, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2013
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.
60 x 70 cm
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2013
Oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 98 3/8 in.
200 x 250 cm
Installation view: Landscape with Circles, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland, 2015
FEDERICO HERRERO
Untitled
2009
Oil on canvas
118 1/8 x 169 1/4 in.
300 x 420 cm
Installation view: Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
Biennial de Medellin, Colombia, 2007
FEDERICO HERRERO
Forest
2005
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.
70 x 100 cm
Federico Herrero’s intensely visual language is rooted in his observations of everyday life in Costa Rica’s ever evolving landscape, especially the way nature and culture collide. In his paintings on canvas, immersive installations, and public works, brightly hued organic shapes jostle against each other as they inhabit and negotiate space. There are dissonances and harmonies, which threaten to momentarily unravel but are bound together with an energy that seems to operate on a nearly atomic scale. They creep along the edges, and often break free of the frame entirely, winding onto the walls and into the crevices of his installations' spaces.
Color for Herrero is an expression of space, both the absence of space and the abundance of space and the relationship between them. His canvases and installations therefore become exercises in seeing that compel the viewer to experience their environment in novel ways. Of his varied practice Herrero states, “When painting on a canvas, you know there is no transgression; it acquires a rhythm of production that is related to yourself...One deals with a personal universe, the other deals with a social vocation.” Through this duality, Herrero’s practice is essentially a study of liminal spaces—gaps between public and private, canvas and wall, figure and background, work and viewer--always infused with elements of play, pleasure, and humor.
Federico Herrero (b. 1978, San Jose, Costa Rica) has exhibited widely internationally, with solo exhibitions and public installations in São Paulo, Brazil; San Francisco, CA; Dusseldorf, Germany; Kanazawa, Japan; Tokyo, Japan; Mexico City, Mexico; Freiburg, Germany; and London, UK. Recent major institutional projects include Tempo aberto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, São Paulo (2019); Open Envelope, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2018); and Alphabet, a site-specific installation for the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018). Herrero was the recipient of the Young Artist’s Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and his work is in the permanent collection of numerous institutions including the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Herrero is also the founder of Despacio, a contemporary art space in his native San Jose, which is an important force in the continued development of Central America’s artistic voice. He lives and works in San Jose, Costa Rica.