Museo de Ponce, Ponce, P.R.
Artist
Enoc Pérez
(Puerto Rican, born 1967)
Date2010
Object number2023.2699
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/8 x 42 1/8 in. (76.5 x 107 cm)
frame: 34 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (87.6 x 118.1 x 6 cm)
frame: 34 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (87.6 x 118.1 x 6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
DescriptionEnoc Pérez’s best-known work focuses on the depiction of buildings that marked him personally. These include the hotels where he stayed during his childhood and, as in this painting, the Museo de Arte de Ponce, which he visited frequently with his father from an early age. His work is especially concerned with structures of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and New York City architecture, which he paints metaphorically as though they were portraits. In Museo de Arte de Ponce, Pérez portrays the main façade of the building designed by American architect Edward Durell Stone. The artist achieves a complex interplay between the composition’s textures, reliefs, lights, and shadows. This painting presents a visual dialogue between the parts and the whole: highlighting the building’s rectangular first floor, the hexagonal scheme of the galleries on the second floor, and the columns that hold up the roof, which is decorated with a web of triangles.
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