carlier | gebauer, Madrid, is pleased to announce Self Park, Arturo Herrera’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. An interest in strategies of repetition, juxtaposition, and fragmentation carry across Arturo Herrera’s multi-layered artistic practice. He synthesizes found images and forms into ambiguous contexts, unlocking their potential to kindle expansive, highly individual associations. As Scott Roben notes, “accumulation and disorientation, and the loss of clear reference are among his work’s underlying features. It defers the apprehension of any singular whole. Instead, dislocated bits of printed matter, no matter where they land, always carry with them a sense of absence, a quality extended by frequent play between positive and negative shape.” ¹ Self Park continues Herrera’s conceptual and material engagement with the logic of collage and the legacies of modernist abstraction in recent collage-based works that show the breadth of his distinct practice.

¹ Scott Roben, “Themselves, In Motion”, (2021)