Brooklyn-based artist Rene Juan de la Cruz’s rhythmical geometric forms are inspired by the artist’s love of music and moving visuals. Read more about the work below.
There’s something rather pleasing about Puerto Rico born artist
Rene Juan de la Cruz’s minimalist abstract creations. Perhaps this is due to their satisfyingly symmetrical nature and the attention to detail applied to each individual piece, which strikes you straight away. Or maybe it can be attributed to the uplifting energy given off by the works, despite their relatively small-scale and unassuming existence.
Working from his studio in Brooklyn, New York, de la Cruz makes the work himself from the initial design stage to the completed, signed and numbered screenprinted edition stage. The extensive precision is achieved by creating each image digitally on the computer to get the desired effect, before transforming it into a perfectly executed, hand-printed silkscreen print. The level of quality is important, and this is a significant part of the work, with subject matter and medium echoing one another harmoniously.
A multimedia artist, as well as a video jockey known as VJ Demencia, de la Cruz takes his inspiration for the new series, titled ‘Perfect Imperfections’, from his passion for music and the moving image. Works such as
Elastic Triangulation 1 and
Red and Black Simetric Triangulation are reminiscent of sound waves moving horizontally across the page, while others appear to be totally abstract. Although displaying static forms, the prints have a definite sense of fluidity about them, with the monotone pieces such as
Elastic Focus and
Pendulum creating optical illusions in a Brigit Riley-esque manner, which trick your eyes into believing the images are shifting around on the surface of the paper. Titles are used to intensify this experience of potential movement;
Pendulum becomes exactly that as one can imagine the levitating form swinging back and forth, and the word ‘elastic’ conjures up notions of flexibility.
In the three-tone pieces, the colour red has been introduced to produce more depth in the layering and a sense of transparency and texture. These forms are ‘noisier’, with more detail, taking things to another level.
Although each piece works as a standalone print, it’s when they’re displayed together as a series that they really come to light, creating their own visual language which can almost be heard when you become fully immersed in the viewing experience.
We have six exclusive hand-printed screenprints in limited editions of 25 available at $835.00 each. See the works in more detail
here.