Samsa, drawing combined with etching,
2019, 36 x 48 in.
The Imagined World includes twenty-two works on paper by Puerto Rican artist Rafael Trelles. Produced between 2017 and 2019, these drawing combine painting and printmaking elements and feature protagonists from various literary sources. Throughout this series, Trelles masterfully weaves together themes of memory and reality; magic and the mundane; and art and literature. Like figures from our memories, the characters in this series are not presented in a wholly realistic way. More than literary protagonists, these characters are memories pulled from Trelles’s mind. When discussing his process, Trelles says he began the first works in this series by drawing an anonymous figure. As he drew, each figure brought forth a recollection of a literary work from his memory. “I didn’t choose the characters,” he explains, “they chose me.”
View of the exhibit installation. Photo: Courtesy Point of Contact Gallery
View of the exhibit installation. Photo: Courtesy Point of Contact Gallery
View of the exhibit installation. Photo: Courtesy Point of Contact Gallery
“The Imagined Word,” an exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Rafael Trelles on view through March 13, 2020. The gallery is located in the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St.,Syracuse, NY 13202 Monday – Friday: 12PM – 5PM or by appointment. More information: https://puntopoint.org/
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