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Federico Herrero
Born 1978, San Jose, Costa Rica. Lives and works in San Jose.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
Walls/muri, Fondazione Bevilaqcua la masa, Venice.
2005
Live surfaces, Watari Museum for Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
2004
Mental lanscapes and transit lines, Viafarini, Milan.
2003
Pintacoteca, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose.
2002
Sies + Hoeke Galerie, Dusseldorf.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Belief, Singapore biennale.
2005
Diverse ways of happiness, Aichi World Expo 2005, Nagoya, Japan.
2004
Empty Garden, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
2003
El arte y la vida, 8th Bienal de La Habana, Cuba.
Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Plateau of Humankind, 49th Biennale de Venezia, special prize to a young artist.
Federico Herrero enjoys the same success with his works on walls, the floor and asphalt as with his works on canvas. The place
has no meaning, just like the size of the brush, the type of paint and the size of the predetermined paint surface. His interest in
painting lies in the very process of the application of the paint pigment on those places where, according to his feelings, it is
essential. Therefore in his works there are paintings of buses, swimming pools, patios and whole buildings. In this way Federico
Herrero opposes the traditional notion of the space of the painting, expanding it for new possibilities.
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Federico Herrero (Costa Rica)
Portrait, 2007
Oil on canvas, 80 х 70
Courtesy the artist
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