From the Phenomena Series IV - Mixed Media on Aluminum 45'' x 29'' Alexey Marroquin - Symbolic Organic Forms
Alexey Marroquin's longtime interest in working with metals and architectural materials has led him to his current work, which brings universal forms of nature together with skilled and sensitive metalwork in stunning and beautiful ways. His mixed-media pieces highlight a dialogue between intimately organic forms and the beautifully pliant metal of aluminum. Nodules and bumps dot his surfaces in arrangements that resemble microscopic shapes, with a symmetry that brings to the forefront the idea of an order that might be buried within nature and which has been revealed here. Spherical shapes and loops of filaments connect tiny starbursts, and it is this mix of tendrils and stationary nodes that gives Alexy's work its sublime tension. The subtle tones of his colors suggest the surface of pale, imperfect skin, here elevated to the level of the symbolic. Alexey has always been interested in the hidden logic of the universe and believes that it is through art that this logic can be revealed.

Alexey Marroquin's work bypasses issues of abstraction or representation and addresses the physicality of life just as it presents symbolic projections of physical reality. His artwork embraces both material truth and a transcendent view of the universe.

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