Lives and Works in Berlin and Weimar, Germany.
from Havana, Cuba.
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What is your background in art and what do you like about living in Berlin?
I remember when I was in elementary school that all my notebooks were full of scribbles and drawings together with the theorems, tables and the class notes. Years later I graduated as an Architect at the University of Habana, Cuba and as an Artist at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.
There are only 3 cities that I have lived in. Havana, Weimar and now almost 6 years in Berlin. In all of them I have always developed or built a kind of bubble that I call "precarious luxury". But only in Berlin I had the opportunity to explore more deeper what I am and where do I want to go with my artistic practices.
What is your first memory of experiencing a piece of art?
looking at my father sitting at his desk working on his paper sculptures and collages of dreamed cities.
When did you realize you wanted to become an artist?
We are all artists ! But just to do that “Art” or the realization to become that “artist” devoted in bringing out artistically all inner whereabouts, came to me after working three years as an architect.
What other artists inspired you?
Oh dear ! . So many of them… and I cannot wait to find more. But always I feel the presence and the inspiration of the Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam, icons like Grace Jones , David Bowie and Jessye Norman and recently following the work of Tino Seghal.
What is the central theme in your art?
I have a very strong relationship with the east German landscape. Of course for me is like the battle field of my existence in the last 16 years.
You like the use different medias what elements in your creative process are fulfilled by that, like drawing painting video?
I will say…my artworks are always based on my personal narratives .I need the color, the sound and the movement to feel my self fulfilled or at least to be truthful to that particular experience I want to share through a drawing a painting a song and a performance .
What is the role of art or at least can be?
To be.
How does Berlin inspire your art?
the performative plays a central role in my life. To play, explore and define my body with in diverse ways of speaking, ways of walking, ways of be have , ways of dressing of different social bodies enriches me as a human being and of course and therefore as an artist.
What are you working on right now?
On a few things…
-Finishing two paintings for a future exhibition in Zurich.
-A performance based on one of the songs of the Ruckert lieder by Gustav Mahler together with the pianist Anna Lysenko in Weimar.
-live performances with the music label Giegling.
-Planing with my music partner Tilman Porschuetz our next “SYN3A” Album release Tour .
-Helping my life partner Simon Williams to run his gallery “ The Ballery ”in Schoeneberg , Berlin.
Where can one see your art?
From January 15 to the beginning of April a part of the gallery space "the Ballery" will be transformed into a studio and showroom. Here you can see some of my paintings already finished and the process of the new ones to come. Always from 3 o'clock in the afternoon the doors are open in our space on the Nollendorfstrasse 11-12 in Schoeneberg
Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz
Dipl.-Ing. Architektur
Freier Künstler
http://ottooscarhernandezruiz.com/
Tel.: 0176 99320314
ottorum@yahoo.com
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