Part of Roberto Fonfría’s critically acclaimed practice, this unique physical creation treats the sheet of archival paper as an analytical laboratory for sub-surface social research, exploring human behavior and institutional rules with a sharp, critical eye and nostalgic humor. The vertical arrangement tracks an intense graphic rhythm, coordinating a complex mixed media matrix where found images collected from thrift store magazines, advertising, and family photo albums are extracted from their natural context. The artist fragments and reconstructs the masculine figure by superimposing acetate film transfers, raw acrylic coatings, aggressive graphite marks, and tactile fiber threads, adding ironical text references and insights from his Venezuelan childhood that touch on personal themes of dreams, fears, and memories.
The images come from old magazines, advertising and photo albums collected at thrift stores creating a collage artwork. By extracting them from their natural context, he reconstructs them by adding references to popular culture as well as common phrases and insights that come from his Venezuelan childhood.
Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magazines, advertising, and photo albums collected at thrift stores. By extracting them from their natural context, he reconstructs them by adding references to popular culture as well as common phrases and insights that come from his Venezuelan childhood.
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Conceptual Collage Photography - He Always Fancied Himself as a Ladies Man, 2014
He Always Fancied Himself as a Ladies Man, 2014
Found images transferred to acetate film, collage, acrylics, and graphite.
Dimensions: 15 H x 11 W in.
Frame size: 19 H x 15 W x 1 D in.
One of a kind
Fiber thread.
Mounted.
Framed.
Roberto Fonfría (1969) born in Caracas, Venezuela, examines questions of consciousness, identity, happiness, humor, boredom, masculinity, money and aging, exposing the centrality of time that belongs to each piece. His collages live on thanks to his curious hands that choose specific pieces of paper, cardboard, thread, photographs and clippings, and are reworked on a surface to construct a different meaning, a new identity, a new narrative. Uniting disciplines as broad as photographic transfers with drawing and writing. His method of creation consists of using images from old magazines, advertisements and photo albums, modifying them and adding references to popular culture, common phrases and reflections from his childhood in Venezuela. Finally he makes “analogical” modifications using practical methods, painting, drawing and writing.
