The Cuba in my art is an invention ...... Diango Hernández (b. Sancti Spíritus Cuba 1970
lives and works in Düsseldorf) says about the genesis of his works which reflect his childhood
and youth in socialist Cuba as well as his experience as a migrant. The book Theoretical Beach
combines conceptual considerations with tropical sensuality their union is the creative matrix
for the artist's work in a variety of media (sculpture installation mural painting and
drawing) which intertwines an exploration of personal experiences and larger questions of
memory the search for an identity longing translation and what it means to leave one place
and arrive in another with critical reflections on the history of art.Produced in close
collaboration with the artist Theoretical Beach documents four of his most recent exhibitions
in 2015-2016 (Kunsthalle Münster MOSTYN Wales K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Düsseldorf Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen). The respective curators Marcus Lütkemeyer Alfredo
Cramerotti Susanne Meyer-Büser and Stefanie Kreuzer as well as Timotheus Vermeulen have
contributed essays analyzing the artist's work a text by Diango Hernández himself and a
preface by Markus Heinzelmann round out the volume.
