MARCELO FUENTES

The artworks by Marcelo Fuentes act as a threshold to what cannot be perceived at first glance. His work occupies the intermediate territory of abstracted figuration; although the motif is recognizable, it appears veiled, filtered by a synthesizing pictorial language. Architecture has functioned as a structuring axis of Fuentes’ practice. His representations, at times real constructions and at times imagined, are always devoid of human presence. The artist reflects on the city as an inhabited yet empty space. In a later stage, flowers appear as the second grand theme of his work. Fuentes approached them through a collaboration with artist Rosa Artero. They seem almost forgotten, revealing an evident fragility and evoking ideas of memory and vulnerability. Without resorting to the human figure and working in small formats, Marcelo Fuentes succeeds in creating an introspective body of works that speaks profoundly about the feelings and emotions that define us.