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Stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated conceptual series by contemporary artist Roberto Fonfría. Relying on systematic material recycling, raw handwritten text juxtaposition, and multi-panel layout organization to map out a personal identity narrative, the artwork masterfully tracks human behaviors and social rules through a deconstructed graphic environment. The vertical layout anchors a powerful flat perspective across four independent quadrants, using raw monochromatic textures, bold color blocks over the eyes, and conceptual word indicators like WANT and NEED to turn individual black and white thrift-store portrait segments into an elegant topographic scenery of modern anxiety, private dreams, and spatial gravity.

 

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.

 

Acquire this mixed-media mosaic an original contemporary portrait of investment quality by Roberto Fonfría and enrich your modern art collection.

Contemporary Portrait Mixed Media mosaic - Close Before Striking I, 2014

$980.00Price
  • Roberto Fonfría

    Close Before Striking I, 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.

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