Miguel Trelles
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Printmaking, Drawing
Miguel Trelles Studio
Website: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=miguel+trelles&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Artist Statement
TRAMITE: Hsiao (Enterprise: Virtue) is a creative reinterpretation of Chinese scholar-official painter's Li Kung-Lin's (1041-1106) painted handscroll: the “Hsiao-Ching” (Xiaojing tu) or The Classic of Filial Piety. In it Li adapted to his age the admonitions extolling filial piety found in a Confucian text (350 – 200 B.C.). Li's adaptation highlights the social contract in XIth Century China. In the scenes that make up TRAMITE: Hsiao, the physiognomies of Li Kung-Lin's original figures turn grotesque. They derive from a later Chinese handscroll by Kung K'ai (1222 –ca. 1304), “Chung K'uei Traveling”.
While faithful to the compositions of Li's Xiaojing tu, TRAMITE: Hsiao constitutes a creative reinterpretation with the irreverence of “Chung K'uei Traveling”.
Other media: Printmaking, Drawing
Miguel Trelles Studio
Website: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=miguel+trelles&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Artist Statement
TRAMITE: Hsiao (Enterprise: Virtue) is a creative reinterpretation of Chinese scholar-official painter's Li Kung-Lin's (1041-1106) painted handscroll: the “Hsiao-Ching” (Xiaojing tu) or The Classic of Filial Piety. In it Li adapted to his age the admonitions extolling filial piety found in a Confucian text (350 – 200 B.C.). Li's adaptation highlights the social contract in XIth Century China. In the scenes that make up TRAMITE: Hsiao, the physiognomies of Li Kung-Lin's original figures turn grotesque. They derive from a later Chinese handscroll by Kung K'ai (1222 –ca. 1304), “Chung K'uei Traveling”.
While faithful to the compositions of Li's Xiaojing tu, TRAMITE: Hsiao constitutes a creative reinterpretation with the irreverence of “Chung K'uei Traveling”.
Selected Works
|  Sea la K de Klemente - 2009 - Silkscreen - 22" x 30" [price upon request]  Tramite: Hsiao - 2008 - Oil on linen - Variable  Tramite: Hsiao - 2008 - Oil on linen - Variable  Filial Piety in the Princes of State: Desfile - 2008 - Oil on linen - 80" x 58"  Filial Piety in Government: Dice el Sabio Salomon - 2008 - Oil on linen - 78" x 64"  Importance of the All-Embracing Rule of Conduct: La Regla De Oro - 2008 - Oil on linen - 72" x 54"  The Influence of Filial Piety and the Response to It: Solemnidad - 2008 - Oil on linen - 75" x 73"  Filial Piety in Mourning for Parents: Partida - 2008 - Oil on linen - 72" x 54"  Fauno - 2011 - Silkscreen - 22" x 32" - $425.00  Rita - 2010 - Silkscreen - 22" x 30" [price upon request]  Steal your blood - 2011 - Silkscreen - 22" x 30" [price upon request]  Steal your kingdom - 2011 - Silkscreen - 22" x 30" [price upon request] |
Artist Bio
Miguel Trelles is a representational painter and a printmaker who divides his time between New York City, New Haven, Connecticut and San Juan. Better known for his on-going Chino-Latino painting series, including the latest narrative series “Tramite: Hsiao” (Gabarron Foundation, NY/Spain ‘08), Trelles has also worked on other series such as “Rumberas in the Garden” (Shubert Theater, New Haven, ;04) and “Vikingo-Mulato” (CSV Cultural Center, New York, 02).
After obtaining a B.A. in Art History and Studio Art at Brown University, Miguel Trelles attended graduate courses in Chinese Art History at Yale University. He then took up lithography at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Trelles holds an M.F.A.(1995)from Hunter College.
Trelles' paintings have traveled all over the U.S. and to Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Santo Domingo, Tegucigalpa, Havana, Buenos Aires, Paris and Valladolid, Spain. Trelles' work is part of several permanent collections such as those in El Museo del Barrio and Deutsche Bank in New York and in the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and El Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico as well as that of the Fundación Gabarrón in Spain.
Art Critical, Arte al Día, Art in America, Art Nexus, and YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art have all published reviews of Trelles work.