MADS MIL@NO PHOTO AWARD CATA DEF

Andres Herrera
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
(Le Corbusier)
Andres Herrera is a Colombian photographer. His research is strongly influenced by the interest he has in design.
In fact, his photography is made up of geometric shapes resulting from perspectives of buildings and glimpses
of architecture, which no longer seem to assert this role. In some moments, we find ourselves immersed in
places where the third dimension disappears, leaving us surrounded only by lines that cross the visual space, to
meet in specific points and then reconnect with others. The use of black and white transforms architecture into
a real uninhabited skeleton. Andres empties the buildings to the bone, to recover their hidden lines, precision,
shapes and intersecting planes. The skies turn black and majestic white lattices rise above them, glowing in
the dark. It breaks the limits of reality to abstraction, to take us to another world and then, suddenly, the light.
Colored surfaces, less violent shapes and lines are now the main subjects of his photographs. A pastel orange
envelops the blue of the sky in which a palm tree appears and a lilac wall is the backdrop to three salmoncolored
openings. In this dualism, the only trace of the man are these buildings, the earth no longer seems to be
inhabited. Our shape prevents us from belonging to this abstract world, a world of otherworldly geometries and
balances. What Andres takes us to, is an utopian journey made of symmetries and visual proportions, far from
reality, where lines, planes and points are sovereigns of a perfectly organized space.
Art Curator Francesca Brunello