Raul Herrera

The image of the city is a heterogeneous space of places and memories that are of vital importance in the construction of contemporary life. I start from this premise to make tours of the urban dermis, developing a plastic proposal framed in the discourse referring to the city, which addresses the visual and narrative power of color, shapes and the various dialogues between the graphic and the random. I am interested in serial forms, where the surface influences the perception of the spatial superpositions that it contains.

I explore a range of forms and chromatic arrangements that incorporate the influences of architectural agglomerations, thus reinterpreting aerial views, plans and urban skins, fragments and assemblages that fold and unfold through the structures. These lines-structures that involve space not only two-dimensionally but three-dimensionally, are incorporated into the environment that contains them, tracing new relationships in the design of these enclosures, being interested in the evidence of graphic media, collage, drawing and painting with which I work, to focus or blur depth; creating a feeling of three-dimensionality on a flat surface.

This city as transit and deployment becomes performance and displacements: routes that are made up of the essence of man. The concept of heterogeneous, both in its epidermal or physical and operational meaning, serves as a multiplier agent of opposing, confronting visions, paradoxes of an urban reality that can be totally beneficial as a representation of development and beauty, or completely perverse as events of chaos , of debauchery, ugliness and destitution. A mirror-duality that corresponds to the configuration of the contemporary city in the origins of urbanism. This exploration, by far existential of the iconography through its folds and dynamic unfolds, transform and mold the spirit of man, evidencing or registering the social complexity of the city, turning it into an aesthetic and conceptual response.

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