For this presentation at Frieze Masters London, gallerist Jeremy Scholar chose a group of paintings and works on paper from the 1960s and 70s. During these two decades, Fernández was particularly mobile. He landed in Paris in 1959 where he picked up elements of Surrealism, then moved onto Puerto Rico in 1968, which fueled an interest in hard-edge abstraction. By 1972, however, he settled in New York and became embedded in the punk-fueled subculture of downtown. This survey thus draws together images of collapsed space, bodily negotiations, and repeated geometries, all rendered in Fernández’s signature monochromatic style.
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