In the Saturday, April 6, 2024 edition, the Nuevo Herald reviews the latest solo exhibition of renowned Cuban-American creator Pedro Hernández. Authored by art critic, curator, and essayist Dennys Matos Leyva, the article not only shares his insights on the curation and museography but also takes a brief journey through Hernández's output over the last decade, mirroring the exhibition itself. Matos also explores key elements crucial to the artist's development, such as his immigrant status, his medical background, and his initial artistic influences in the late 1950s.
Pedro migrated and settled in Miami in 1969, participating in numerous group and solo exhibitions, biennials, and art events in the United States and Europe, developing a vast and fruitful career over more than half a century. The details are available to readers at:
DENNYS MATOS LEYVA
Art critic, independent curator, and essayist. Studied journalism at the Faculty of Communications, University of Havana (1988-1990). Holds a degree in Contemporary History from the University of Havana (1990-1995). In 1995, he settled in Spain. Since 2012, he has been working and living between Miami and Madrid. He regularly collaborates on magazines, catalogs, and specialized publications with essays and articles on contemporary art, such as ART.Es, ArteAllimited, ArtNexus, and ArteAldia Internacional, Nagari, or Input Magazine. He has been an art critic for El Nuevo Herald since 2013. His most recent book is "Landscapes. Metaphors of Our Time" published by Linkgua editions in Barcelona, 2008. He was a content editor for Rev Arte y Naturaleza (2001-2003), Arco Especial (2004), and CityScape (2007), and various catalogs.
He has curated more than twenty exhibitions in Europe and the United States, among which stand out: "Abstraction and Constructivism. Continuity and Rupture of the Latin-American Modernity" at Durban Segnini Gallery (Miami, 2015); "The Avant-Garde Latin American Photograph: Poetic and Discourse of the Modern Gaze" at Kronfle Collection, CCE (Miami, 2014); "Occupying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art 1990-2010" at CAM USF (Tampa, 2013); "Havana: Enigma of the Ruins" at Fototeca Nacional de Cuba (Havana, 2013); "Heroic Acts" at Mateo Mate, Sala La Gallera, Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community (2011); "Ibero-America Glocal: Between Globalization and Localism" at Casa de América Madrid and SECC (2007); and "BerlinTendenzen" at La Capella. Institute of Culture of Barcelona and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (Barcelona, 2006). He was a resident in the Visitors’ Programme of the Goethe Institut (Berlin, 2005) and in the Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg (Austria, 2006).
