Rafael Trelles

Infobox Artist


name = Rafael Trelles
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caption = The Beginnng of the End (2007)
birthname = Rafael Trelles de Maga
birthdate = birth date|1957|4|27|mf=y
location = flagicon|Puerto Rico Santurce, Puerto Rico
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nationality = Debatable
field = Painting, Drawing, Plastic, Printmaking, Street Art
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movement = High Postmodernism
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Rafael Trelles (born April 27, 1957) is a postmodern artist from Puerto Rico.

Biography

Rafael Trelles was born on April 27, 1957 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He began studying painting at the age of eleven, under the guidance of Spanish painter Julio Yort. In 1980, Trelles obtained a Magna Cum Laude Bachelor Degree in Art at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1983, he traveled to Mexico where he pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Autónoma de México. Today he lives and work in Puerto Rico.

Individual exhibitions

*2007 Performance Self-portrait after Paret, Letter to a President. Plaza de la Convalecencia, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
*2007 En concreto, urban graphics in Vieques, Portfolio presentation. Conde de Mirasol Museum, Vieques, Puerto Rico.
*2006 En concreto, urban graphics in Vieques, Portfolio presentation ,Raúl Juliá Theater, Puerto Rico Art Museum.
*2006 Performance En Concreto, urban graphics in Mayagüez, Parque de los próceres, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
*2006 Performance En Concreto, urban graphics in Ponce Art Museum, lateral sidewalk of Ponce Art Museum. Art Circle Project, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
*2005 Installation and performance Natividad, Sin Título Art Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
*2005 Performance En concreto, urban graphics in Vieques , Navy restricted Area in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
*2005 Exhibition En Concreto, urban graphics, Conde de Mirasol Museum, Vieques, Puerto Rico.
*2005 Exhibition En Concreto, urban graphics, Galería Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
*2004 Exhibition En Concreto, urban graphics, Sacred Heart University Santurce, Puerto Rico.
*2003 Painting exhibition Poliedro, Puerto Rico Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
*2001 Painting exhibition "Crónicas del Asombro" Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, San Juan, Puerto Rico
*2000 Visitas al Velorio (Visits to the Wake), San Juan Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico
*1999 Painting exhibition, Elite Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL USA
*1997-1998 Paisaje Secreto (Secret Landscape) Painting exhibition, Ponce History Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
*1997 Painting exhibition, Elite Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL USA.
*1996 Visitas al Velorio (Visits to the Wake), Ponce History Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico
*1993 Painting exhibition, Botello Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
*1992 Drawing exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Centro Europa Building, Santurce, Puerto Rico
*1991 Visitas al Velorio (Visits to the Wake), University of Puerto Rico Art Museum
*1990 Painting and drawing exhibition Renaissance III Gallery, New Jersey
*1989 Drawing exhibition at Fleming House, 15th Coffee Festival, Yauco, Puerto Rico
*1989 Drawing exhibition, Humacao College Library, Humacao, Puerto Rico
*1988 Afroamérica (Afro – America), drawing exhibition, University of Puerto Rico Student Center, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
*1988 Drawing exhibition, Hermes Bookstore, Condado, Puerto Rico
*1987 Un camino hacia la magia (A Road to Magic), drawing exhibition, San Juan Art League, San Juan, Puerto Rico
*1986 El tarot universo (Universal Tarot), painting exhibition, El Aquisitio Café and Theater, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain
*1985 Painting, drawing, and lithography exhibition, Mime Laboratory Building Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico
*1983 Painting, drawing, and lithography exhibition, Guatibirí Gallery, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
*1982 Painting, drawing, and lithography exhibition, Guatibirí Gallery, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
*1979 Drawing exhibition, Francisco Oller Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Awards

He has been awarded with the first prize for best exhibition in contemporary media from the Puerto Rico Art Critics Association; the “Emeritus Award” for the excellence of his artistic career from the National Endowment of Puerto Rico, as well as the Art Medal from the Puerto Rican Association of Artists with UNESCO.

In Concert (Urban Graphic) - Documentary (2004)

Using a pressurized water hose and plastic stencils as medium for experimental graphic art, Trelles engraves elaborate designs of dirt and grime on walls, sidewalks and lamp-posts which resembles the Moorish heritage of Andalusian tiles as a world symbol of intergalactic soul.

On Concrete (Urban Graphic in Buenos Aires) - Documentary (2007)

"En Concreto" (translates to On Concrete) is an artistic project of urban interventions developed by Rafael Trelles since the summer of 2004 on the walls, side walks and utility poles of several cities including the island of Vieques. It's an experimental graphic work originally designed for placing in abandoned sectors of worldwide cities. Proyecto 'ace traces and documents the development of this landmark public exhibition in the city of Buenos Aires into film.

ee also

*Figurations on Plastic
*Francesco Clemente
*Takashi Murakami
* [http://sucio.deviantart.com Sucio]
*David Carson

External links

* [http://www.proyectoace.com.ar Proyecto 'ace]
* [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34603&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO]
* [http://www.rafaeltrelles.com/english/works2002.html the hidden JEWELS of Rafael Trelles]