A graduate of New World School of the Arts High School,Hernan Bas (b. 1978) has gone on to become one of Miami's most celebrated artists, His work indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic and old world imagery, and makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature. This exhibition consists of 38 works spanning a decade, and includes examples from each of his series completed thus far. Designed like the chapters of a book, the exhibition presents the development of this young artist in such a manner to allow for symbolic, literal and poetical readings.

Colophon

Contemporary Arts Foundation

Exhibition Statement Mark Coetzee

Foreword

 Rubell Family Collection Mark Coetzee

Interview

 with Apologies to Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging  Hernan Bas and Mark Coetzee

Essays

 Towards a New Sensuality: Hernan Bas' Deliberate Decadence Dominic Molon

 Hernan Bas' "Fag Limbo" and the Tactics of Refraining Societal Texts Robert Hobbs

Exhibition Chapters

 Slim Fast

 Hernan's Merit and the Nouveau Sissies

 It's Super Natural

 A Little Moby Dick in All of Us

 On the Edge of Elysium

 Sometimes with One I Love

 In the Low Light

 Once Upon a Time

 Dandies, Pansies and Prudes

 The Great Barrier Wreath

 Mephistopheles at 17

 Saints and Secret Sects

 Ocean's Symphony

Artist's Biography

Exhibition Checklist

Thanks and Credits