Friday, January 11, 2013

PRINTED ECHOES

AN EXHIBITION OF
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS 
FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMY SCHOOL
5 East 89th Street
JANUARY 8 - FEBRUARY 2, 2013
SONIA GECHTOFF GALLERY

     
Column © 2012 Rafael Ferran
                                            
 My etching Column will be exhibited along side others and by the way it's a great looking show that was curated by the Academy's distinguished director 
  Maurizio Pellegrin. 






http://www.nationalacademy.org/art-school/student-faculty-exhibitions/


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

From Travel Pictures To Art, Part 2


   Venice has a mix of many styles of architecture, while the local color is influenced by the temperature of day and patina of the varied surfaces. People ask me what artist/artists inspired my pieces. I can say the Synthetic Cubism paintings by Picasso and Brague, the collages by Kurt Schwitters and the photo montages by David Hockney
                                         

   Tintoretto © 2012 Rafael Ferran



My photo Tintoretto was taken in the Sestiere di Canaregio on the northern end of Venice. The taller building in the center is the home and studio of that great Venetian painter. Today tourist can find lodging there. Also the Botega di Tintoretto, an art school is located on the street level. I collaborated with a master printer there, but that will be for another blog in the near future. I used the photo as the  reference for my piece Buildings.


Buildings © 2012 Rafael Ferran
Buildings is an abstraction derived from a restructuring of the three point perspective in the photograph.. The transfer of sky into separate blue areas works well with the fragmentation of the structure into distinct architectural details, e.g., windows, gutters, roof tops, interior rooms, doorway entrance, and street.  The materials utilized are photographs, store coupons and magazine reproductions. They were assembled and then enlarged with the Xerox copier. The image was transferred onto archival paper. Paint color was added for some details.