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strange imagination of Rafael Trelles inspire images of a
world transformed into a bizarre habitat for enigmatic creatures
and weird vegetation. The surreal metamorphosis of extraordinary
environments into a playground of odd characters is like a
theater of the absurd for his own poetic visions. Emerging
out from the visual exercises practiced by the Surrealists
who extolled the virtues of subconscious automatism as the
basis of their creativity, the varied techniques used by Rafael
Trelles contribute to his works’ incomprehensibility.
The diverse surface textures range from those based on exact
realism to imitation collage and transparent faux tissue motifs,
and are further enhanced by the exquisite precision of his
drawing. The combination of painterly surfaces with linear
complexity further subverts intentions of the recognizable
into that of the totally strange, all the while apparently
condemning (albeit wittily) what is basis to all: the inadequacies
of worldly existence and the fate of the human – condition.
Carol
Damian
Art Critic
Florida International University
In his painting, Rafael Trelles shows unquestionable
merits as an original thinker that knows how to shuffle multiple
literary and artistic references without falling into the
tried or the mere appropriation of ideas and forms.
Enrique García Gutiérrez
Art Citric
Revista Domingo, El Nuevo Día,
Puerto Rico
The new paintings by this meticulous professional and complex
poet are constructed within a Caribbean vision and a postmodern
movement. Through a combination of different mythologies,
erotica, political and ecological subjects, Trelles invites
us to enter into mystical spaces full of enchantment and existential
inquiries.
Manuel
Alvarez Lezama
Art Critic
El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico
I was
not surprised at all when Rafael Trelles told me that he had
traveled abroad throughout– all over Europe, as well as
Mexico, Peru and the United States. It's not that his
painting reveals any specific influence from the styles of Picasso
or Miró, Wyeth or Shann, Siqueiros or Szyslo –
but that the perception of what constitutes a classic has become
a second nature to Trelles. Selden
Rodman
Art Critic
San Juan Star, Puerto Rico
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