This unique physical creation treats a premium grand-scale canvas substrate as an analytical laboratory for spatial dynamics, letting thick acrylic pigments, heavy oil pastels, and strict grid proportions converge to map human consciousness. The vertical arrangement tracks an intense graphic rhythm, where dozens of found portrait images collected from old photo albums are extracted from their natural context and covered with vibrant blocks of primary colors over their eyes. By dissolving the borders between vintage photography, texturized canvas fields, and handwritten graphite annotations, the artist transforms a childhood memory from Caracas into an undeniable architectural gravity that explores our fears, aging, and boredom.
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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Original Mixed Media Artwork - Days Fade Away, 2019. By Roberto Fonfría
Days Fade Away, 2019
Mixed media on canvas: Collage, acrylics, oil pastels, graphite
Dimensions: 70 H x 49 W in.
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Mixed Media
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.
