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Does the artist influence the world or the world influence the artist? Maybe a better question is whether the painter has control over the canvas or whether the canvas has control over the painter? In the case of Marcos Raúl Valella, it’s definitely the latter.
“The way I handle the material is direct and fast,” he says. “As a result, the way the image looks is informed by the material, rather than the image informing its material.”
Which makes for some pretty interesting material: paintings that seem more closely attached to a human’s emotional landscape than any visual one. Check them out for yourself Wednesday night at the opening reception for his new show, “Present”. We promise it will be an out-of-body experience.
April 15-26, 7 p.m., 2009
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