Designed by Cuban artist Diango Hernández in collaboration with Los Angeles jewellery studio LÖF.
Beautifully crafted in gold, the buckle takes the form of an octopus, reflecting a shared love for the sea and the marine imagery central to Hernández’s artistic practice. Conceived as a wearable sculpture, it brings artistic expression to an intimate, functional object.
Limited edition of 100 pieces.
"Olaismo paintings emerged from a sustained investigation into perception, memory, and the instability of images."
Through Olaismo, Hernández articulates a vision of art as a living, transformative force. His works—spanning painting, sculpture, installation, design, and architecture—reflect the constant shifts in identity, memory, and cultural narratives, particularly those shaped by migration, revolution, and globalization.
Through Olaismo, Hernández articulates a vision of art as a living, transformative force. His works—spanning painting, sculpture, installation, design, and architecture—reflect the constant shifts in identity, memory, and cultural narratives, particularly those shaped by migration, revolution, and globalization.
Across a career spanning more than three decades, Diango Hernández’s work has been explored in dozens of essays, reviews, and interviews. This selection brings together critical perspectives and the artist’s own reflections on displacement, and the sea as a language of transformation.
Diango Hernández is a Cuban-born contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation and design. Born in Sancti Spíritus in 1970, he explores how memory, language and cultural identity shape our understanding of everyday life. His artistic career began in Cuba as a co-founder of Ordo Amoris Cabinet in 1994.
Olaismo is the visual language developed by Hernández around the wave—ola in Spanish. Through repetition and transformation, waves become a way of translating words, images and emotions into painting, sculpture and environments. The sea becomes a language that connects different forms of expression.
The wave is both a recognizable form and a means of transformation. It allows Hernández to move between representation and abstraction, turning familiar subjects into rhythms of colour and movement. Across his work, the sea offers a way to explore identity, distance and belonging.
Hernández explores how a translucent surface changes what we see. Figures, objects and interiors appear blurred, rippled or fragmented, creating a sense of intimacy and uncertainty. This transformation makes perception itself part of the subject: the viewer encounters both an image and the surface through which it is seen.
His paintings are physical, handmade artworks, frequently executed in oil on canvas. The rippling appearance is created within the painting. Individual artwork descriptions identify the medium and distinguish unique paintings from editioned prints.
Yes. Hernández works across sculpture, installation, objects and architectural environments. His Piscinas Olaístas, for example, extend the wave language into swimming pools, bringing art into a space that people can physically enter and experience.
His work is represented in international collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Inhotim in Brazil, and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. These collections reflect the international reach of a practice developed over more than three decades.
Yes. Diango Hernández offers limited-edition prints featuring several of his best-known motifs from the Swimming Pools and Windows series. For availability and edition details, please contact Wizard Gallery in Milan at milan@wizardgallery.com
For available paintings, sculptures and editions, contact Wizard Gallery. The gallery can provide information about individual works, prices, certificates of authenticity and acquisition arrangements. Enquiries can be directed to milan@wizardgallery.com
With over 1.4 million followers on Instagram, Diango Hernández (@diango.hernandez) stands among the most followed contemporary artists today. As early as 2015, Hernández began using Instagram not merely as a communication platform but as an essential part of his creative process. Through this early and visionary engagement, he became one of the first pioneers to explore Instagram’s social and transformative power within the field of art.
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