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Rafael Delacruz: Montage

Current exhibition
Apr 24 - May 31, 2025
  • Altman Siegel is thrilled to present our inaugural exhibition with California-based artist Rafael Delacruz. Delacruz seamlessly blurs the lines between time-based works and painting in this exhibition. In addition to a new suite of works on canvas, the artist will premiere a 3D video sculpture titled: A Picture: Me in the air, next to that thing, 2024-2025. Both paintings and film are equally mysterious, playful, textured, and undeniably innovative—a strong relationship to collage, montage, and the act of drawing weaves both mediums together. 
     
    Alternative texts written by Akiko Neumann.
    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2024 Palm tree ash, oil, and linocut print on canvas 101 x 77 in 256.5 x 195.6 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2024
      Palm tree ash, oil, and linocut print on canvas
      101 x 77 in
      256.5 x 195.6 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2024 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 51 1/2 x 57 1/2 in 130.8 x 146.1 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2024
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      51 1/2 x 57 1/2 in
      130.8 x 146.1 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 76 1/4 x 64 1/4 in 193.7 x 163.2 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      76 1/4 x 64 1/4 in
      193.7 x 163.2 cm
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  • In Delacruz’s paintings, narrative explodes and collapses, tempered by the intentionality of his mark-making and vivid blocks of bold color. Handmade pigment from sacramental palm ash provides shades of grey and black throughout these compositions. Techniques ranging from lino cut and screen printing in tandem with traditional oil painting manifest in a diverse crust over the surface of these pieces. Primarily working with exteriors and street scenes, this two-dimensional work flattens architectural space to betray our notions of depth and upend typical comprehension of perspective. The head must crane sideways to grasp these constructions that appear to slide at an angle off the canvas. Gazing into these works, the viewer's perception of space is warped and distorted to dizzying effect. Episodic vignettes reminiscent of in-camera film editing and personally significant symbology drift through and saturate these paintings with ease. Cars, bicycles, clouds, and calendars shift in and out of focus as our eyes attempt to navigate the illusive landscape of these pictures.
    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 65 1/2 x 75 1/2 in 166.4 x 191.8 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      65 1/2 x 75 1/2 in
      166.4 x 191.8 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2024 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 47 1/2 x 54 in 120.7 x 137.2 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2024
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      47 1/2 x 54 in
      120.7 x 137.2 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash, oil, and soft chalk pastel on canvas 88 x 124 in 223.5 x 315 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash, oil, and soft chalk pastel on canvas
      88 x 124 in
      223.5 x 315 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on black bean dyed canvas 29 x 32 in 73.7 x 81.3 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on black bean dyed canvas
      29 x 32 in
      73.7 x 81.3 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz i love you forever, 1986, 2025 Oil, palm tree ash, screen print, soft pastel chalk, acrylic, fava bean and ceramic magnet on canvas 60 x 72 in 152.4 x 182.9 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      i love you forever, 1986, 2025
      Oil, palm tree ash, screen print, soft pastel chalk, acrylic, fava bean and ceramic magnet on canvas
      60 x 72 in
      152.4 x 182.9 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 38 x 36 in 96.5 x 91.4 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      38 x 36 in
      96.5 x 91.4 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 16 x 20 in 40.6 x 50.8 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      16 x 20 in
      40.6 x 50.8 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz Untitled, 2025 Palm tree ash and oil on canvas 16 x 20 in 40.6 x 50.8 cm
      Rafael Delacruz
      Untitled, 2025
      Palm tree ash and oil on canvas
      16 x 20 in
      40.6 x 50.8 cm
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    • Rafael Delacruz A Picture: Me in the air, next to that thing, 2024-2025 Black bean dyed canvas, colored pencil, graphite, palm tree ash, oil, acrylic, soft chalk pastel, 3D TV, laptop, table, drywall, plexiglass, cardboard, paper pulp, casters, and Ed 1/7 of "Pneuma in Angel Style (..ripping at the seams)" 96 x 144 x 73 in 243.8 x 365.8 x 185.4 cm 9 minutes 2 seconds
      Rafael Delacruz
      A Picture: Me in the air, next to that thing, 2024-2025
      Black bean dyed canvas, colored pencil, graphite, palm tree ash, oil, acrylic, soft chalk pastel, 3D TV, laptop, table, drywall, plexiglass, cardboard, paper pulp, casters, and Ed 1/7 of "Pneuma in Angel Style (..ripping at the seams)"
      96 x 144 x 73 in
      243.8 x 365.8 x 185.4 cm
      9 minutes 2 seconds
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  • Similarly, Delacruz’s 3D film, which requires the adornment of special glasses to view, contorts and disrupts our notions of space, immersing the viewer in a fully enhanced artist-made environment. Here, ethereal hand-held footage of two Bay Area cyclists is interspersed with CGI and animated ink drawings that seem to be executed in real time by the artist. These moments, projected in 3D, call forth Le Mystère Picasso (1955), in which French director Henri-Georges Clouzot used stop-action and time-lapse photography to capture Picasso at work. Fragmentary and sensorial films, specifically Goodbye to Language (Jean Luc Godard, 2014) and La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962), as well as the work of film theorist Nicole Brenez and cinematographer Fabrice Aragno, have been critical to the artist’s conception of this project.
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    • Pneuma in Angel Style (..ripping at the seams), Rafael Delacruz, Emma Soucek, Akiko Neumann
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      Pneuma in Angel Style (..ripping at the seams)

      Rafael Delacruz, Emma Soucek, Akiko Neumann Film Leaflet to A Picture: Me in the air, next to that thing, 2024-2025 containing printed material from the film. Handmade book-box (canvas and screen printed cover), seven risograph prints,... View In Store
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  • Delacruz’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; and Reyes | Finn, Detroit, MI. Group exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York, NY; Taka Ishii, Tokyo, Japan; Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA; and Pilar Corrias, London, UK, among others.
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