Executed as a signed one-of-a-kind masterpiece utilizing collage, watercolor, and graphite directly on premium 100% cotton paper, the artwork explores human behavior, inner desires, and social isolation with a critical eye and sharp humor. The vertical layout anchors an impactful four-part grid narrative marked A, B, C, and D, where thrift-store vintage paper fragments and retro headshots are extracted from their natural context. Each face is customized with energetic graphite linework, vibrant watercolor washes, and office tape graphics masking the eyes, accompanied below by raw hand-lettered English phrases that track modern anxiety and human rules.
The images come from old magazines, advertising and photo albums collected at thrift stores creating a mixed media 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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Contemporary Mixed Media Collage - Close Before Striking X, 2014
Close Before Striking X, 2014
Collage, watercolor, and graphite.
Dimensions: 20 H x 16 W in.
One of a kind
Mixed Media on %100 Cotton.
Mounted on a white frame
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.
