Contemporary painting
HERIBERTO QUESNEL
“I like to portray moments in contemporary history that interest me as a Mexican, but also the problems that affect us generally as a globalized society.”
HERIBERTO QUESNEL
Mexico City, 1971
From collecting objects, magazines and books from old libraries and flea markets, Heriberto develops his work rewriting and reinterpreting history in several ways to depict the present. His work on paper encompasses altered portraits of statesmen and dictators as well as comic strips or mass media cultural references. Intervening pages of nineteenth century publications and pages from 1950's magazines with drawings, overlays, cutouts or writing, Quesnel decontextualizes and resignifies the object in such a way that the past serves a support to portray new stories reminding the cyclicality of history.
“My work is based in the history of humanity, inspired by art history. I like to portray moments in contemporary history that interest me as a Mexican, but also the problems that affect us generally as a globalized society.”
Heriberto Quesnel, 100 Painters of Tomorrow
