Wizard Gallery is pleased to present Cartoline d’Italia, an exhibition of recent works by Diango Hernández, bringing together a selection of editions on paper from the Piscine Olaiste series alongside a new sculptural work. The presentation marks a further development in the artist’s ongoing investigation into the relationship between image, space, and object.
Conceived as a meditation on travel, memory, and the construction of ideal landscapes, Cartoline d’Italia unfolds as a visual and conceptual itinerary. Hernández’s practice is structured around a distinct formal language grounded in distortion, fluidity, and spatial transformation—an approach that produces perceptual environments suspended between reality and projection.
At the core of the exhibition, the Piscine Olaiste emerge as speculative architectures: mental and spatial constructs situated at the threshold between desire, recollection, and fiction. These works establish a dialogue with the Italian landscape and its architectural tradition, evoking the intellectual legacy of the Renaissance, in which painting and architecture operated as parallel instruments for imagining and shaping possible worlds. As in the tradition of ideal views and designed gardens, Hernández articulates compositions where nature and architecture converge within a system of formal harmony—yet one destabilized by a contemporary, fluid sensibility. The pools function simultaneously as fragments and models: compressed yet expansive territories that exist both within the historical continuum of representation and within the open field of imagination.
The exhibition also introduces MARBA, a sculptural chair cast in bronze and finished with nickel plating. In this work, Hernández extends the formal principles of his pictorial research into the domain of design, reconfiguring the functional object as an autonomous sculptural presence. The piece embodies a dynamic interplay between materiality and reflection, activating a perceptual tension that resonates with the spatial ambiguities present in the works on paper.
With Cartoline d’Italia, Hernández reaffirms his engagement with space as a generative and projective device. The environments proposed within the exhibition do not resolve into mere representations; rather, they operate as experiential fields—sites in which an idea of beauty, memory, and potentiality may be inhabited.
Wizard Gallery. Vincenzo Monti 32, Milan 20123. Italy
