José Herrera (Tenerife, Spain 1956) embodies one of the most consistent and tenacious careers on the national scene. He belongs to the 1980’s generation and was among those who promoted the renewal of visual languages in the island context. At that time, a series of particularities emerged and linked the islands more to Central European and Latin American trends than to the formalization of the rest of the state. It is difficult to define Herrera’s artwork in terms of categories such as sculpture, painting or drawing.

In many ways, he pursues the expansion of the line as an essential element of drawing, but seeking to achieve three-dimensionality, thus stretching space in a strange balance between distortion and serenity. Often defined as an artist of silence and serenity, his creation, paradoxically, encompasses a procedural complexity that, nevertheless, remains hidden from the viewer’s sight.