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From the Estancias to the Hudson River Valley
Cardillo moved his studio from New York City to the Hudson Valley. This move inaugurated a long-term and ongoing relationship with the unique environment of the Hudson River Valley and the ecological systems of the Catskill Mountains. This series is of unique mixed media works on paper, digital photographs combined with woodcut, silkscreen and drawing.
The und... more >> ACCS Visual Arts is pleased to present this exhibition by Rimer Cardillo.
Cardillo moved his studio from New York City to the Hudson Valley. This move inaugurated a long-term and ongoing relationship with the unique environment of the Hudson River Valley and the ecological systems of the Catskill Mountains. This series is of unique mixed media works on paper, digital photographs combined with woodcut, silkscreen and drawing.
The underlying photographs are taken in the Hudson Valley, around or near the artist’s home and studio in Gardiner, New York 70 miles north of New York City. In contrast, the overlay of printed and drawn imagery derives from notebooks and sketches compiled and collected over years of travel and study in the artist’s native Uruguay and other regions of South America. This juxtaposition points to Cardillo’s continuing concern with the survival of native customs and the preservation of natural ecosystems across political barriers and societal divides. Cardillo seeks out some of the most remote regions of the South American continent, places such as the Pantanal (the southern Amazon region that remains one of the largest continuous tracts of undisturbed wetlands on earth), or the rustic cattle ranches (called estancias) of the Uruguayan interior. He records his observations in travel diaries, and these sketchbook drawings, once enlarged, supply the imagery for the woodcuts found in the From the Estancias to the Hudson River Valley Series. Cardillo’s enlarged linear notations, combined with the lush color of the digital photography, result in some of the most elegant and appealing works of Cardillo’s career.
Rimer Cardillo, 1944, Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York, New Paltz, received his MFA from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Uruguay. He spent two years in Germany studying at the School of Art and Architecture in Weissensee, Berlin and and at the School of Graphic Art in Leipzig. In 1997 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He was the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts scholarships, among many other distinctions. With a very strong background in printmaking and photo related technologies, Cardillo has developed a large and powerful body of work that includes prints, photographs, sculptures and installations.
