“Past Redux”
Collage on Paper
30″ x 30″
Daniel “Hertel Cournoyer’s compelling oeuvre conveys a powerful organic essence which stirs intrinsic passions from the spectator. Demonstrating an unparalleled mastery of digital media, Hertel manipulates photographs to create a metaphysical realm of mystery and fantasy. His prints seamlessly blend shapes and colors to create magnificent chromatic spectrums and illusory dream-like environments. The fluid forms virtually gleam with underlying symmetry and immaculacy. Hertel’s artworks explore shape and movement by utilizing abstract images and recognizable forms as pieces of a vibrant mosaic.
The earthly subjects have a strong orbital pull, centering the swirl of varied mediums and inspirations with unifying force. The world that takes form, forged through a digitally enhanced and mixed media approach allows his work to take on a sense of liveliness and play as his subjects color their own meaning onto a background of rich textures and spontaneous strokes, His work serves as an expression of complex emotional states becoming more intense, spirited and unsuspecting as the artist moves each work closer to realization. His adventurous process, along with his penchant for the bold use of color and texture, allow his compositions to be imaginative and provocative as his central subject speaks eloquently on behalf of troves of emotions as well as political and social narratives.
