Joan Hernández Pijuan - Hommage à Joan Hernández Pijuan

In his late works, Joan Hernández Pijuan undertakes nothing less than to paint unfathomable space – the void. The artist often graphically inscribes a frame onto the painted monochrome surface of the image. The picture within the picture emerges. Mostly, the interior area remains empty, though occasionally, archetypal signs and crude patterns enliven the plane, communicating with the priming color. On the other hand, the paintings with densely composed texture formulate an apotropaic gesture towards the horror vacui. Yet even here, the repetition of uniform elements is closely akin to emptiness, a fact which Joan Hernández Pijuan has also confirmed in an interview.