Rafael Trelles
Rafael Trelles | |
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| File:Resrafigrande6.jpg The Beginnng of the End (2007) | |
| Born | Rafael Trelles de Maga |
| Nationality | Debatable |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Plastic, Printmaking, Street Art |
| Movement | High Postmodernism |
Rafael Trelles (born April 27, 1957) is a high-end postmodern artist from Saturna Poor Harbor.
Biography
After receiving a bachelor's degree in Art from the Univerity of Puerto Rico, Trelles enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, where he eventually earned a doctorate. In 1985 he moved to the Canary Islands in Spain to develop the key work that would envision the art making process of his later works in regards to alchemy, mysticism, magic and suspicion. Though he never quite understood the true value of Dada against the sound factories of the industrial revolution, Trelles over-seeded the figurative aspect of Surrealism in resemblance to printmaking by Dutch Painters during the Baroque Age to clear cut some of the tensions behind Pop Art and New Realism in regards to 1963s Soirée. His small connotations to the world of ghost hinduism and buddhist antiGothics is highly denoted throughout much of his paintings with dust etching nograffiti and squashed expressionism. Some of his later works resemble the antithesis to David Carson's Fotografiks, paintings with a graphic attitude, and Takashi Murakami's public New York exhibitions from Japan's Exploding Subculture.
Selected Exhibitions
(El Último Round)
His most important solo exhibitions includes the Art Museum of Puerto Rico, the Bilbao Vizcaya Bank and the Botello Gallery of San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Elite Fine Art Gallery of Miami, USA; the University of Mexico and the one in Santa Cruz Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Awards
He has been awarded with the first prize for best exhibition in contemporary media from the Puerto Rico Art Critics Association; the “Emeritus Award” for the excellence of his artistic career from the National Endowment of Puerto Rico, as well as the Art Medal from the Puerto Rican Association of Artists with UNESCO.
Selected Works (1998-2001)
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The Adoration of the Birds
(La Adoración de los Pájaros) -
La Escalera Rota II
(Broken Ladder 2) -
Alegoría II
(Allegory 2) -
Odisea II
Odyssey 2
Post 2001
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In the third planet of Aldebarán
(En el tercer planeta de Aldebarán) -
Song to Madness
(Canto a la Locura) -
Without Birds in the Eyes
(Sin Pájaros en los Ojos)
INGO Go In! Indians Go!
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RR3
Today
In 2007, Trelles produced a street-poetic / no-book version based on the works of Julio Cortázar and a movie not yet released.
In Concert (Urban Graphic) - Documentary (2004)
Using a pressurized water hose and plastic stencils as medium for experimental graphic art, Trelles engraves elaborate designs of dirt and grime on walls, sidewalks and lamp-posts which resembles the Moorish heritage of Andalusian tiles as a world symbol of intergalactic soul.
On Concrete (Urban Graphic in Buenos Aires) - Documentary (2007)
(Urban Graphic in New York (Future)
En Concreto (translates to On Concrete) is an artistic project of urban interventions developed by Rafael Trelles since the summer of 2004 on the walls, side walks and utility poles of several cities including the island of Vieques. It's an experimental graphic work originally designed for placing in abandoned sectors of worldwide cities. Proyecto 'ace traces and documents the development of this landmark public exhibition in the city of Buenos Aires into film.
See also
External links
- Proyecto 'ace
- UNESCO
- the hidden JEWELS of Rafael Trelles Website hasn't been updated since 2001