Arturo Herrera: Music | Art21 "Exclusive"

Episode #055: Filmed in his Berlin studio, artist Arturo Herrera discusses themes of subjectivity and abstraction while drawing connections between his love of music and his hopes for how audiences come to appreciate his visual work.

For Arturo Herrera, abstraction is a language rooted in the practice of assembling and composing fragments. Herrera collects illustrated books, comics, and paint-by-number paintings, cutting and splicing them into new forms. He also creates his own source material by fragmenting drawings, watercolors, and shapes made by applying paint directly from the tube. Herrera collages all of these elements together, pasting them together to create a new whole.

Arturo Herrera is featured in the Season 3 (2005) episode "Play" of the "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series on PBS.

Learn more about Arturo Herrera: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herrera

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. Special Thanks: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

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[JONSLIMAK]

when you listen to music.. it is not so subjective...

music envelopes the senses... it precedes even what we feel... it comes before the feeling... it is part of our surrounding at that moment

this does not happen the same way with painting... painting requires more effort on our behalf to connect..

[rimind1]

interesting i see where he is comming from.

[firusfirusfirus]

just like kandinsky said

[johnkesling]

cool guy