Guillermo Hennekens
Guillermo Hennekens lives and works in the city of Paraná.
He studied at the Provincial School of Visual Arts in Rosario with professors Julián Uzandizaga, Eduardo Serón, and Hugo Padeletti. In Santa Fe, he studied with the engraver Oscar Esteban LUNA, and in the city of Paraná with the painter Tati Zapata. In Mexico, he joined the studio of Uruguayan engraver Anhelo Hernández. He also participated in the Contemporary Graphic Arts workshop with Matilde Marín, Ana Tiscornia, and Rommer Cardillo.
Since 2010, he has been a member of the Lithography Edition Center workshop, directed by Natalia Giacchetta in Villa Lynch, San Martín, Argentina. He has exhibited collectively and in group exhibitions at national and international fairs and exhibitions since 1990, including the most important ones: Arteba, Trastienda, Bada in Argentina, Miami, Washington, New York, Columbus (USA), Paris, Madrid, Panama, Mexico, Slovenia, Rome, Traun, Austria, and others.
He is currently a member of Grupo Humano Paraná, an artistic collective that works on street performances in the city of Paraná.
He is an adjunct professor in the Graphic Design I workshop at the Faculty of Education Sciences, UNER.
Inspiration (Nature in Action - 04/2025)
A search through short poetry
The earth ravages
the leafy walnut tree,
the dawn arrives.
Sea…reefs
snaking their destiny,
fleeting…eternal.
Blackbirds rest
in the zenithal shelter.
The stones cry out in summer.
The sun warns
it rests in the sea,
the wind is reborn.
The forest weaves
the earthly warp
the sparrow dies.
The path curves
to its foreseeable end
day falls.
A woman looks at
her blue box
of violets.
The sun sets
the stars explode
The murmur is reborn.
Pulsión (Drive) (Ancestors 2023 - 03/2023)
We take the life impulses that reflect in our body the exit to another state of things.
Our deep interior moves us to suppress tension, to connect with our senses, we perceive it, our ancestral, musical sounds... beats to shed our skin.
Introspection.
The heartbeats of the center of our body that take us to a state of rest, calm and unity.
Ritual
We beat patches, sing and dance in a spiral circle.
The pleasure principle keeps us in constant movement looking for the explosion... and then the stillness, we no longer have the need.
Drive of life.
Sublimation.
The search (Ancestors II - 3/2022)
At the beginning we walk a diverse path, vegetal, humid and misty.
We stop and look into each other's eyes.
We return to greenery and water, to our origins to the rites of the sacred land, source of life.
We walk together in a labyrinth, the trees cover us, the sun covers us.
Earth, water and sky. Infinity of our being.
The spiral of our consciousness.
Past, present and future.
world and underworld.
Birth, life and death.
Body, mind and soul.
Trees, source of life and shelter.
Triquettes between the forces of nature to give rise to life and wisdom.
Trees as a link between the real world and the world of our ancestors. Thus, the trees seen as a gateway to this new world.
Trees of life.
Daur, in Celtic: oak, is the root of the word door.
Video from shots in La Picada, near the city of Paraná, Argentina.
Guillermo Hennekens
Edition: Pablo Zubizarreta.
