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Hernan Bas at The Saatchi Gallery

HERNAN BAS


Selected Works by Hernan Bas


Hernan Bas

Posing With Antlers in 100 Year Old (Haunted) Cabin

2004, Mixed Media on Board

79 x 61cm

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Hernan Bas, Posing with Antlers in 100 Year Old (Haunted) Cabi
Hernan Bas’s paintings explore the codes of dandyism and its subculture as a means to define sexual attraction. Bas’s paintings are small, frail and sensuously delightful; through their unassuming intimacy, they personify epic romance. Influence by historical painting, Hernan Bas’s images contemporaneity, their staginess and immediate familiarity suggest the melodramatic narratives of classic film. In Posing with Antlers, Hernan Bas paints a waif-like boy, flirtatiously hamming it up for snap shot laughs. Placing the viewer in the position of an unseen photographer, Bas sets a scene of predatory seduction.


Hernan Bas

Red Herring

2004, Oil on Canvas

79 x 61cm

Hernan Bas, Red Herring
Heavily influenced by The Decadence period of literature, Hernan Bas’s paintings are inspired by well-worn pages of Wilde and Huysmans. “Why does homosexuality seem to make you pre-disposed to liking these things?” Bas questions. “As a result this work is tainted with Saint Sebastian martyr types, dying dandies and peacock feathers, all the materials that dictate a certain queer vocabulary." Hernan Bas’s style of painting emulates linguistic flourish. Impassioned brushwork and pastel hues bloom with poetic description; environments are set with the divine ambience of transience. Confined by fanciful etiquette, Hernan Bas’s figures allude to darker sentiments. Their posed innocence is but a thin veil of gentlemanly decorum.


Hernan Bas

The Hero Centaur

2005, Oil on Canvas

91 x 122cm

Hernan Bas, The Hero Centaur
In The Hero Centaur, Hernan Bas composes his painting with acute sensitivity. His rich palette flames with dreamy brushstrokes, forms swell and recede with controlled eroticism. Mythology bridges the gap between children’s fantasy and adult sophistication, adventure stories enmeshed in wanton intrigue and violent plots. Hernan Bas situates his characters amidst the turbulence of adolescence. Their sexuality has an aura of naiveté, an awkward expedition into the enchanted and unknown. Hernan Bas’s paintings are never explicit. Rather his romanticised scenes exist as metaphors for emotional flux. Wavering between virginal trepidation and gushy infatuation, they capture precise moments of seasonal youth.


Hernan Bas

Burning Up For Your Love

2005, Mixed Media on Paper

77 x 58cm

Hernan Bas, Burning Up For Your Love
Passion and violence are inextricably linked. In the pursuit of the alchemy of dandyism, Bas embraces both the decadence and nastiness of pleasure. In Burning Up For Your Love, Hernan Bas imagines his young lovers’ forest rendezvous with a look of aggression. Hernan Bas’s painting descends into a maelstrom of expressive gestures: trees twist with charred malice, encased by a necromantic mist. Hernan Bas styles the blanket with carnal suggestion: its sinful red hue, replicated in the splashes and splatters of leaves, suggest a more brutal form of forbidden love. The natural physicality of one young man is given an ethereal glow, presented as an almost god-like form, while the other man lies darkened and bruised. The aftermath of their indulgent tea party remains as litter.


Hernan Bas

Tapestry

2005, dyed wool

434 x 1 x 222 cm

Hernan Bas, Tapestry 2005

Hernan Bas's tapestry intricately weaves his subject of desire into an object of luxurious decadence. Drawing reference from the narrative regalia of medieval wall hangings, his carpet transfers the expressionist elegance of his paintings into stylised stitch work. Woven in bright colours, Hernan Bas’s mythological scene presents both a contemporary and timeless apotheosis. The acid hues and pixellated texture replicate the virtuality of television or digital imaging, while his antique process echoes the intimacy of heartfelt endeavour. In creating a functional object rather than a painterly illusion, Hernan Bas incorporates a more complex dimension to his opulent fantasies. His tapestry facilitates lifestyle embellishment and role-play fetishism.



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