Diango Hernandez's work is proof that AI can never take over the human potential for creativity (Credit: New Exhibitions, Daniel Capra, Exibart.service, Contemporary Art Library, Wizard Gallery) Surrealism takes on a whole new meaning once you lay eyes on Diango Hernández's handmade repertoire. The Cuban artist's work has been famously capturing eyeballs, imaginations and eventually walls for decades now. A niche name from a more so niche interest, the bourgeoning conversation around AI being able to create art has brought the artist's work to the more catalogued mainstreams. As an art novice, you may not 'get' his work. But the inability to peel your eyes away from it is something that is guaranteed. And once the realisation sets in that every stroke you see on the canvas through the screen had a live hand and even livelier vision behind it, the magnanimity of his talent begins to truly settle in to your psyche. His first solo show took place in Cologne's Frehrking Wiesehofer. Called 'Amateur' it consisted over 2,000 drawings he had made during his Cuba years - an endless artistic meditation of sorts playing on the themes of fragility and incompleteness. Incidentally, these themes define much of his work in the following years as well, medium no bar. A closer look at Diango Hernandez's mesmerising brush strokes (Credit: Wizard Gallery) Venice-based Art Critic and independent curator Daniele Capra is perhaps best positioned to explain the fluid complexity of Hernández's work: "(The) artist takes the programmatic freedom to digress, not to choose the shortest path, but to move in the surroundings, dilating the path with different strategies. It is a dynamic that leads to a perceptive slowing down of the spectator, who finds himself in a condition similar to the one who is looking at a text that continuously oscillates, as unstable as the continuous flow of the waves." Aalokitaa Basu is a writer and Senior Copy Editor whose work explores the intersection of lifestyle, culture, beauty, wellness, and self-possession. H... View More