The Fools And The Very Profiteers. By: Miguel Hernández

Category: Painting • Technique: Acrylic and ink on canvas • Format: 48" x 80" • Year: 2006
XX Award, Centro E. Leon Jimenes.
Santiago, Dominican Republic.

The societies are divided by multiple lines which characterize them. One of the most common lines is exactly the theme which I propose: the weak citizens and the opportunistic politicians. Since the beginning, human beings have misused and been inconsiderate of one another. Here I mention the lies of the promises of the political program; those using their power to manipulate those others who are not aware of this misuse. The greed and assumed benefits of this misconduct is translated as exercising the power of government.

This visual proposal is constructed in saturations of forms to give the idea of the passion and energy of the gullible Dominicans in the promotional and political campaigns. This environment that is created, a bit saddening and overwhelming, connecting the visual references of the human condition with the rash criticism of Aldus Huxley, specifically his Ends and Means. The writing of the concept of “Fools” refers to those utilized, to that margin which is the “mass” or the “people” that converts into the prime subject of the business of the “very profiteers” that assume political corruption as their strategy.