Melquiades Rosario

Lives and works in Puerto Rico

Artist statement

Artists Statement When I was a kid, id wrap a rubber band around two pencils, twist them, let them go, and see What kind of marks they made on my school notebook. I am glad that mmm mark became my first step of creativity. One constant in my sculptural work has been the concept of “intangible space as a contained void”. As a continuation of this idea, I developed what I call “intangible drawings” and also drawings done with robots, remote-controlled cards, and machines that allow me to produce works in which topographies, limit, spaces, and boundaries are defined by gestural traces or marks. Just as a being in the courses of its life, its transit through time and space, leaves traces of what it is or thinks, these drawings represent the traces or marks that we leave when brushes, pencils, machines, and so on become prostheses that carry all the emotional and psychological weight of the person who handles them, with collateral effects such as the creation of another independent space. To produce the intangible drawings, I put adhesive tape on the paper and rub it with a glass sphere; then, when I pull the tape off, it takes off pieces of the top layer of paper. I try to portray mental spaces as intangible spaces which, qua intangible, have the ability to reproduce themselves in different states or manifestation, such as drawings, sculpture, words… I use robots and remote-controlled cars in the sense of objects created by humans as reproductions of themselves and thus...

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