Fauna Automática / Automatic Faunae Drawing

Arturo V. Hernández is a mexican visual and sound artist that has tried in several aesthetical languages to explain the complexities of his inner self through and his surroundings, with the use of techniques such as drawing, painting, musical composition, art object, photography and even designer toy object, he embarks in explorations that range from the automatic to the experimental, from the gesture of the subconscious to minimalistic or baroque ephemeral compositions, many of his works share the obsession of trying to grasp the elusive concept of “now-ness”, developing a method of mind-blank automatist body gestures he tries to translate this to different kinds of media, his “automatic faunaes” are some sort of autobiographical gestural drawings that have been developed through several years of work influenced mainly by abstract expressionism, tribal art alongside with arab & japanese calligraphic art and even urban art, they have been developed in traditional paper, mural and electronic media. in his latest work he engages in different kinds of visual experimentation using light painting photography techniques to create visual metaphors of the spiritual auras and energies that surround the human beings and the common places they inhabit, exploring ambidexterity, bimanual interference and symmetry as a conceptual search of balance in life.