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Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, Florida, United States) is an artist based in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.[1]

"His work indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic and old world imagery, and makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature." [2]

Hernan Bas had his fifth solo exhibition at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami in March 2011 and his first European retrospective at Kunstverein Hannover in Germany in 2012. In 2010 Bas exhibited at Victoria Miro Gallery and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris. Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection debuted in Miami at The Rubell Family Collection in December 2007.[3] In February 2009 the exhibition traveled to the Brooklyn Museum.[4] Spanning a decade, this exhibition included examples from each of the artist’s series. In 2005, he presented Soap Operatic, a solo exhibition at The Moore Space, Miami. Other notable exhibitions include the 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York City; Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Triumph of Painting: Part Three, Saatchi Gallery, London; Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum; and Humid, The Moore Space, Miami. His work is included in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami among others.

Bas is best known for his depictions of waifs and dandies, who are somewhat based on his own experiences.[5] Overtime, Bas says, these characters have grown in his paintings and taken on different roles.[6] Bas is gay and queerness often influences his work in the form of waifs and other young men, typically recurrent characters in his work.[7]

Bas owns a building in Detroit that was renovated by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, the couple behind Detroit electronic music act Adult. The building is on a block called Service Street noted for the number of diverse and accomplished artists that work there, including techno music pioneer Derrick May.[8]

Early Life

Bas was born in 1978 in Miami, Floria and moved upstate to a small town as a young boy.[9][10] Bas has described growing up in the town as "kind of like living in the 'X-Files," and has credited it for his interest in the paranormal.[11] Bas began painting very young, at around three or four years old.[12]

Career

In 2004, Bas' artwork was displayed at the 2004 Whitney Biennale at the Whitney Museum in New York City.[13] One year later, in 2005, Bas participated in two more group exhibits, The Triumph of Painting: Part III, at the Saatchi Gallery in London and in New Worlds - New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, at Schirn Kuntshalle, in Frankfurt, Germany.[14] In 2007, Bas had a major presentation at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, which travelled to the Brooklyn Art Museum in 2008.[15] In 2009, Bas participated in the group exhibit "the Collectors," curated by Elmgreen & Dragset for the Nordic and Danish Pavillions at the 53rd Venice Biennale.[16] In 2010, Bas moved his studio from Miami to Detroit, stating he enjoyed the "weirdness" of the city.[17] In 2012, Bas had shows in New York, at the Lehman Maupin Gallery and in Paris and South Korea.[18]

Bas' artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.[19] The Brooklyn Museum of Art displays the Aesthete's Toy (2004) and Night Fishing (2007) in the permanent collection.[20] Bas has a total of eight works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Start of the Rain (2004), All By Myself (2004), Idyll in Elysium (2003), The Love of the Exiotic (2003), The One That Got Away (2003), Untitled (2003), The Whores of Venice (Version 1) (2003), and The Whores of Venice (Version 2).[21] In Washington D.C. he has artwork at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.[22]

Influences

Bas has described some of his influences as the lives of saints and the paranormal.[23] He has also cited Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire as inspirations, as well as Joris-Karl Huysman.[24] [25] He has indicated that most of his inspiration comes from the past and he does not pay attention to much contemporary work.[26]

Further reading

  • Christian Rattemeyer, Jonathan Griffin, Nancy Spector, Hernan Bas (New York: Rizzoli), 2014
  • Michele Robecchi, René Zechlin, Hernan Bas: The Other Side (Berlin: Distanz), 2012
  • Mark Coetzee, Robert Hobbs, Dominic Molon, Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection (Miami: Rubell Family Collection), 2008

References

  1. ^ "Success Stories: Visual Arts". New World School of the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-02-24. Retrieved 2008-01-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Coetzee, Mark, Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Collection, Rubell Family Collection, 2007.
  3. ^ Straub, Kimberly, "Once Upon a Time," Vogue, March 2009, p.366.
  4. ^ Sherwin, Skye, Hernan Bas, ArtReview, April 2009, p. 25.
  5. ^ "Centerfield | Against Nature: An Interview with Hernan Bas | Art21 Magazine". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  6. ^ "Centerfield | Against Nature: An Interview with Hernan Bas | Art21 Magazine". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  7. ^ "Hernan Bas on Painting Aristocratic, Queer Life in 1920s London". Hyperallergic. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  8. ^ Anglebrandt, Gary. "Renaissance artists: Creative community revives overlooked block near Eastern Market", Crain's Detroit Business, Detroit, 11 February 2013. Retrieved on 13 February 2013.
  9. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  10. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehman Maupin.
  11. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  12. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  13. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehmann Maupin. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehmann Maupin. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "Artist Bio". Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  16. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehman Maupin. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  18. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  19. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehmann Maupin. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  20. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  21. ^ "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  22. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehmann Maupin. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  23. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  24. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  25. ^ "Artist Bio". Lehman Maupin. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  26. ^ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2012-04-11). "Hernan Bas, Painter, Talks Growing Up In Haunted Florida, Working In Detroit (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  1. ^ "Centerfield | Against Nature: An Interview with Hernan Bas | Art21 Magazine". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
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