Omar Rodríguez-Graham's First Italian Solo Show at MACCA

Omar Rodríguez-Graham (Mexico City, 1978) presents his first solo exhibition in Italy at MACCA in Cagliari, titled 'El Manto', running until October 29, 2016. The Mexican artist, who studied in the United States, explores painterly language through formal deconstruction and reconstruction, drawing inspiration from Italian masters such as Michelangelo, Veronese, Titian, and Tiepolo. His focus is on drapery, blending tradition with interpretation, and mixing styles that reference Liberty-style racemes and scrolls, Cubo-Futurist interpenetration of planes, and Pop chromatic choices. Rodríguez-Graham approaches painting and drawing sculpturally, aiming to recreate volumes that tend toward Cézannian geometrization, combined with sophisticated technical skill using only colored pencils on raw linen canvas. The series 'El Manto' comprises meticulous small-scale works situated at the boundary between figuration and abstraction.