Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited with text by James Voorhies. Text by Kevin Brazil, Isabelle Graw, Liz Munsell, Blake Oetting.
Miami-born artist Hernan Bas (born 1970) is renowned for his intricate figurative paintings that integrate cues from literature, cinema and gay history. The Conceptualists, his latest series, portrays imagined conceptual artists engaged in eccentric creative pursuits—from mixing paint with water from Niagara Falls to gilding the leaves of dying houseplants. This monograph follows with the series’ presentation at The Bass in Miami Beach. Featuring contributions from Kevin Brazil, Isabelle Graw, Liz Munsell, Blake Oetting and exhibition curator James Voorhies, it delves into Bas’ queer aesthetics, Latinx influences and conceptual art practices.
Published by Rubell Family Collection. Text by Mark Coetzee, Robert Hobbs, Dominic Molon.
The work of rising Miami artist Hernan Bas indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic, old world imagery that makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature. Reviewing Bas' "pictures of willowy young men filtered through screens of swipey, streaky acrylic and gouache," The New York Times' Holland Cotter once wrote, "To me, his paintings are elements in a larger, continuous conceptual-performance piece about being gay in twenty-first-century America. He understands that 'gay' is a larger and more interesting category than 'artist,' and one still embattled and historically underexplored. I value whatever he brings to that history." This volume presents 38 works produced over the last decade.
PUBLISHER Rubell Family Collection
BOOK FORMAT Hardback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 218 pgs / 183 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/1/2008 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 128
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780978988869TRADE List Price: $40.00 CAD $50.00
Hernan Bas