Exhibitions
Secundino Hernández presents Total Station at MUSAC
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) will host the exhibition Total Station by Madrid-based painter Secundino Hernández from July 12 to October 19, 2025. The exhibition brings together a carefully curated selection of thirty works created over the last decade, including his most monumental piece to date: the polyptych Four Seasons. Between Summer and Autumn (2024), which is being exhibited for the first time in Spain.
The exhibition, curated by Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, offers a journey through the evolution of Hernández's pictorial language, from subtraction and stitching techniques to aluminum bas-reliefs, always in dialogue with abstraction and experimentation with materials. Each work reflects his ability to generate new interpretations of contemporary painting, consolidating his position as one of the most original artists on the Spanish scene. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to explore the work of Secundino Hernández and discover his unique vision of contemporary painting.
Hernández immerses himself in painting as a solitary act, freeing himself from the weight of history to create his own space, an intimate dialogue with himself. In his exploration, each gesture acquires meaning: the erosion of the support and pigments, repetition and seriality, meticulous composition, and the accumulation and fragmentation of cut-out canvases become the language of his investigation, revealing the tension between fragility and permanence, between memory and oblivion. The title of the exhibition, taken from the poem "The Total Station " by Juan Ramón Jiménez, reflects the artist's interest in capturing the passage of time and the subtle changes that the seasons imprint on nature and on the very perception of painting.
Although painting stands as the undisputed protagonist of Total Station at MUSAC, the exhibition broadens its scope to also include silkscreens produced in 2020 and aluminum reliefs, in which Hernández constructs authentic assemblages that explore three-dimensionality and texture. These works, along with the painting, deploy a range of techniques and materials, as well as multiple registers and possible readings, revealing a Secundino Hernández capable of opening a complete panorama of his eclectic and constantly exploring output. Each piece, whether two-dimensional or volumetric, contributes to tracing a map of the artist's creative universe, in which experimentation, reflection, and poetic sensibility converge.
