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DESTINOS DISTINTOS

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DISTINCT DESTINIES
RODRIGO BARRALES
ABRIL | 2024

PRESS CLIPPINGS

“Points continuously united in a sequence form a line. Thus, for us, a line will be a sign in which the length can be divided into parts, but so thin that its thickness cannot be divided... If many lines are tightly joined together, like threads of a fabric, they will create a surface.”

Leon Battista Alberti, De Pictura, 1435 (Alberti, 1972, p. 37-38)

 

Based on the Greek mythology of the Moirai, the ladies of fate, Rodrigo Barrales develops the entire show. Coming from the line, a simple ink stroke, the sewing thread, to the woven line that comes to life as it leaves the canvas and paper, he explores the symbolism of this element, which has different meanings within the relationships between people and their destinies.

 

With faceless figures, unknown to the viewer, the artist creates connections to our affective memories, making us believe that we have already seen those people before. Broad elements remind us of our social experiences while creating a dialogue between the ancestral and the contemporary.

 

In his paintings, the red depicts the life’s sustainer, flowing all feelings and needs of the body and psyche, being the first color a human is able to perceive in the second month of life. The cream color evokes distance, ether, and twilight of the unknown to the infinite.

 

The cream color can come from the augmented brightness of the color sepia, or over time, becoming sepia itself. The sepia represents the end of a physical structure, the weakening or the coagulation of the red: it’s its death.

 

In the series ‘Retratos familiares’ (Family portraits’) the line, at times sewn, at others drawn, represents the destiny that unites those figures. In many ways, we end up recognizing the faceless figures, familiar people, allowing our minds to complete the blank spaces, giving meaning to these connections.

 

Finally, the lines that gain volume and dimensions, previously not explored, as if they were the materialization of the other series, including the terracotta now present, referring to the mythological creation of the being made from clay, concluding the reflection of distinct destinies.

 

In Barrales’s words: “we can say that life runs on a thread, that the weaving of all our encounters is intertwined.”

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