Consuelo Hernández

Background

Hernández was born in Tornavacas, Spain, in August 1948, into a family of artists and just art lovers.

Education

Consuelo Hernández's life has been connected with art since her early years. From childhood, she received a proper education from her parents, who took a seven-year-old Consuelo Hernández to the Prado Museum to get to know the great masters of painting, including Velázquez, Goya, Murillo, El Greco. The little girl was so shocked and impressed and she left the museum with the intention of "being a painter."

She managed to combine her high school studies with lessons in paintings and drawing. Hernández graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Salamanca at the age of 22.

Career

At the beginning of Hernández's artistic life, she worked as a professor of Spanish Language. However, soon she decided to dedicate herself entirely to art.

His first personal exhibition took place in 1979, in Plasencia (Cáceres). Those work showed the influence of French impressionist painters like Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. Her early artworks were created in the impressionist style, but later she plunged into the world of realism, to which she remained faithful for more than thirty years. In her artistic career, an evolution in terms of the technique and content of her works can be observed, which is a reflection of the evolution of her own life and the surrounding environment.

In 1995 Consuelo Hernández held a solo exhibition at the Santa Bárbara gallery in Madrid. During her six-year stay in Tangier, Morocco, from 1997 till 2003, her paintings became greatly inspired by the decadent architecture of the city, especially by Gran Teatro Cervantes. Around this time, she met and became friends with the most prominent writers, artists and intellectuals of the Moroccan city, among whom Mohamed Chukri stands out. During that period, Hernández's artworks actively toured such Moroccan cities as Tangier, Rabat, Casablanca, Fez and Tetouan.

Hernández presented a series of paintings at the Present Art International Festival of Contemporary Art in July 2012; that series was exhibited at the Shanghai Pudong National Library and at the CEIBS (Art Investment Forum) in Shanghai (China). The exhibitions continued at the Bridge Gallery in Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as at the Gallery-M of Vienna (Austria) in 2013, the Wison art museum and the Global Harbor in Shanghai (China).

During July-August 2015, the Diputación de Salamanca organized a retrospective exhibition of Consuelo Hernández in the La Salina Palace exhibition hall. In September 2016 she became a guest artist of the "21st Concorso Nazionale d'Arte Contemporanea" organized by Satura Art Gallery, Palazzo Stella, Genoa, Italy. The same year, she participated in the XIII International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Sant Joan Les Fonts, Girona.

The artist participated in the charity exhibition organized by ALAS SOLIDARIAS (Association of Lupicos of Asturias) in January 2017, and in April in "Genova Art Expo 2017", the exhibition organized by Satura Art Gallery at the Palazzo Stella, Piazza Stella, in Genoa, Italy. In November 2017 she held an individual exhibition "Living reality" in the Palace of the Island in her native Cáceres.

Achievements

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  Consuelo Hernández is an outstanding contemporary artist, notable for her realistic paintings like Without destination, Central Cafe, Planet in Roma, Barbara Hutton at the Gran Teatro Cervantes in Tangier, Pyramid in Shanghai. Her artworks have been exhibited at various international shows and festivals held in Chicago, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, the Hague and Madrid.
  
  Hernández is a recipient of a number of awards. She received a Gold medal from Forum Europe 2001 in April 2016. She became an award-winning artist of the "Satura International Contest" held at Satura Art gallery, Palazzo Stella, Genoa, Italy, and also of the 2nd Biennale di Genova, Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea in Genoa, Italy.
  
  In 2018 a street in the municipality of Moraleja, Cáceres, was named after the artist. In December of the same year, Hernández received the Caravaggio International Award in Milan, Italy. In February 2019 she was awarded the International Art Prize Botticelli in Florence, Italy.
  
  A significant number of artworks by Consuelo Hernández is part of private collections in Morocco, Spain, China, Italy, France, the United States, and public institutions in Spain and other countries.

Works

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  • Summer in the Gran Teatro Cervantes of Tangier

  • Hèléna

  • Aitana

  • Self-portrait in Souzhou

  • Gijón Cafe

  • Autumn in the Gran Teatro Cervantes of Tanger

  • Príncipe Pío Station

  • Pyramid in Shanghai

  • Night at the Cervantes Theater in Tangier

  • The sun of May

  • Commercial Cafe

  • Goodbye, Commercial Cafe

  • Winter in the Gran Teatro Cervantes of Tanger

  • Central Cafe

  • The Lago Station

  • Planet in Roma

  • Without destination

  • Barbara Hutton at the Gran Teatro Cervantes in Tangier

  • Composition in Shanghai

  • Spring in the Gran Teatro Cervantes of Tanger

  • Silvia

  • Eve

  • Conrado Parra in Rmilat

  • Pina Bausch

  • Homage to Pina Pausch

  • Silvia

  • El Sueno de Sara

  • Aqua I

  • Bernard Laplange

References

• Tanger. La ciudad internacional Spanish edition.
  2009