CJ Hendry’s Juju in Barcelona
Known for hyperrealistic drawings and large scale installations, CJ Hendry is an Australian contemporary artist based in New York. Her practice transforms familiar objects into highly detailed and often playful visual experiences.
Juju is a monumental sculpture by contemporary artist CJ Hendry that brings familiar cartoon imagery to life through contemporary character design.
With Juju, familiar imagery moves away from the flat surface and into physical space. Something recognisable becomes larger, stranger, and more physical. Visitors can move around it, notice its proportions, and experience its presence.
The shift reflects a wider pattern in CJ Hendry’s art. Everyday imagery is isolated, enlarged, or transformed until familiarity becomes curiosity. Scale changes more than size. It changes attention.
Peter Halley: Geometric Abstraction in Barcelona
Peter Halley approaches familiar structures differently. The American artist is known for neon-coloured paintings that reveal the hidden structures organising contemporary life.
Peter Halley is an American contemporary artist known for geometric abstraction and neon-coloured paintings that reflect on systems of architecture, technology, and communication.
His most recognisable motifs are cells, prisons, and conduits. These shapes represent spaces of confinement and the channels that connect them. Inspired by urban planning, telecommunications networks, and digital infrastructures, Halley transforms these everyday structures into vibrant, luminous abstractions.
Using fluorescent Day-Glo acrylic paint and industrial materials such as Roll-a-Tex, Halley creates brightly coloured surfaces that highlight the artificial and constructed nature of contemporary environments. His work asks us to consider how the systems connecting us can also shape isolation, movement, and interaction.
Two Contemporary Artists, Two Ways of Looking Again
CJ Hendry and Peter Halley use very different visual languages. Hendry enlarges and transforms familiar imagery until recognition becomes curiosity. Halley uses squares, rectangles, and connecting lines to reveal systems that often remain unseen.
At Moco Museum Barcelona, their work brings different perspectives on contemporary life into the same space. Moco Museum is an independent modern and contemporary art museum with locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, and London, presenting modern, contemporary, digital, immersive, and street art through accessible and emotionally engaging experiences.
What looks familiar can still hold another way of seeing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CJ Hendry’s Juju?
Juju is a monumental sculpture by CJ Hendry that brings familiar cartoon imagery to life through contemporary character design.
Who is Peter Halley?
Peter Halley is an American contemporary artist known for neon-coloured geometric paintings. His work uses motifs including cells, prisons, and conduits to reflect on architecture, technology, communication, isolation, and connection.
Where can I see CJ Hendry and Peter Halley in Barcelona?
CJ Hendry’s Juju and work by Peter Halley are on display at Moco Museum Barcelona.
Visit CJ Hendry and Peter Halley in Barcelona
Location: Moco Museum Barcelona.
Visitors can plan their visit through the official Moco Museum Barcelona website.
From the monumental playfulness of CJ Hendry’s Juju to Peter Halley’s neon geometry, familiar forms take on new meaning through scale, structure, and context.
Discover CJ Hendry and Peter Halley at Moco Museum Barcelona.