Bernardo Hogan
Arrecifes, Argentina, 1921 - San Juan, P.R., 2020
Arrecifes, Argentina, 1921 - San Juan, P.R., 2020
Ceramist. After living in Trinidad, he moved to Puerto Rico in 1968. He developed as a self‑taught artist by opening a ceramics workshop with his life partner, Susana Espinosa, and with Isabel Rivera. In 1980, he founded Casa Candina, alongside Espinosa, Toni Hambleton and Jaime Suárez, and became its director. He worked in the ceramics workshop of the Students Art League of San Juan. He was one of the organizers of the Casa Candina Award since 1988 and created several public works with Susana Espinosa, including the murals of the Caribe Hilton Hotel and the Bacardi distillery. Among the awards he received is the gold medal of the International Ceramics Competition in Faenza, Italy in 1995. Also of significance are the exhibitions presented at the Museum of Art and History of San Juan “Bernardo Hogan: Vessels” (1991) and the retrospective exhibitions of his work including “Bernardo Hogan: Artist of the Potter’s Wheel” (1995) and “Bernardo Hogan: A Retrospective” (2017) at the San Juan Museum. His work focused on the ceramic vessel as the only form he developed, working on the potter’s wheel to mold it because, according to the artist, the vessel is “a constant language in all ages”.
Working clay on the potter’s wheel, the possibilities are limited and the restrictions obvious. Each turn of the wheel is a dynamic, immediate force that requires reasoning and action at the same time. Without the wheel, the construction process becomes one with more room for conception, providing time for planned or unplanned changes. Both clay approaches, so different and yet so perfectly coalescent one with the other, result in works, in this case vessels, that arise from a line of thought: the vessel, metaphorical or not, is a constant language from all times.
Bernardo Hogan, 2001
Source: Álvarez Lezama Manuel. Exposición Individual Bernardo Hogan, ArtNexus #41 - Arte en Colombia #87, Ago - Oct 2001
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Sullivan, Edward. “Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century”. California: Phaidon Press, 2000, p. 114.
“Bernardo Hogan: Recent Works”, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos, 2005.
Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
“Hogan: Sin torno”, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
“IV Gran Subasta de Arte Puertorriqueño”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Capellán, Hogan, true chroniclers of our identities”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 3 de diciembre de 1998, p. 71.
Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “De visita por algunas galerías y museos”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 8 de marzo de 2001, p. 82.
“Artista de la semana: Bernardo Hogan en Botello”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 24 de noviembre de 1998, p. 95.
Canella, Sara. “Susana y Bernardo: Un romance con el barro”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de septiembre de 1995, pp. 69-71.
Colón Camacho, Doreen. “Barro y forma”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 14 de noviembre de 1995, pp. 82-83.
“En-cuadrado-doce ceramistas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 2011.
García Gutiérrez, Enrique. “Bernardo Hogan: Una lección magistral”. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo (San Juan, PR), 10 de septiembre de 1995, pp. 12-15.
García Gutiérrez, Enrique. “El nuevo reto de Bernardo Hogan”. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo (San Juan, PR), 13 de diciembre de 1998, pp. 16-17.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “Manos, arcilla y mucha historia”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de octubre de 2011.
Trelles Hernández, Carmen. “Una constelación en el MAP”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 28 de septiembre de 2006, pp. 80-81.