Albano Hérnandez (b.1988) Ávila, Spain, lives and works in Cambridge, UK. Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022 (MA Painting) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM. The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award sponsored his studies at RCA, where he got a distinction and won the Hine Painting Prize 2022. In 2012 Albano won the BMW Painting Prize and the Obra Abierta Award three years later."Emanating from pictorial thoughts and based mainly on ceramic works, my practice has a transcategorical condition. My day-to-day is a constant game of dichotomies where a labour- intensive practice is mixed with industrial processes, undoing is as important as making, and impurity is as substantial as purity. In these processes, I follow a circular economy policy that allows me to reduce the amount of waste generated, establish dialogues between different works, and generate a more elastic and sustainable practice.
Hernández’s latest paintings, and the first step of this process involves him creating a ‘brushstroke’ with air-dry clay. Once the brushstroke has almost dried, he uses an electric food slicer to fragment it mechanically into slices, which are displayed in the natural Western reading order - from left to right, top to bottom. Hernández highlights the fundamental role that commodity fetishism plays in his practice and the relevance of a superficial surface skin.
阿尔巴诺·埃尔南德斯在英国剑桥生活和工作。他于2022年毕业于皇家艺术学院（绘画硕士），并获得了马德里康普顿斯大学（UCM）的美术学士学位。Basil H. Alkazzi 奖学金资助了他在RCA的学习，他成绩优异，并赢得了2022年的 Hine绘画奖。2012年，阿尔巴诺赢得了BMW绘画奖，三年后又赢得了Obra Abierta奖。
“我的实践源于对图像的灵感并主要以陶瓷作品为基础，它们呈现出跨越分类的状态。我的日常工作是一个不断产生二元对立的游戏，总是混合了人工劳动的实践与机械工业的程序。撤销和制造同样关键，不纯和纯洁同样重要。在这些过程中，我遵循一种循环经济的模式，这使我能够减少产生废品，建立不同作品之间的对话，并实践一个更灵活、可持续的作品。
