Anthony Hernandez - Rodeo Drive 1984 MATISSE The result of research conducted

The result of research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist’s methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice

their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies

marine science and migration research

1947) served for two years as a medic in the US Army in the Vietnam War

Hernandez and his contemporaries

Anthony Hernandez - Rodeo Drive 1984 MATISSE The result of research conductedRodeo Drive, 1984 is a series of 41 images of shoppers on Beverly Hills infamous shopping highway. The subjects appear caught unaware, glancing up as they walk, or daydreaming as they wait to be served in its commercial landscape of shops and restaurants. Anthony Hernandez poses as a dispassionate observer, recording the big hair, wide shoulders and cinched waists of the 1980s in sunlit photographs. Hernandez does not simply document the urban