{"id":10810,"date":"2024-08-23T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:40:14","slug":"francisco-ratti-in-misshapes-at-praxis-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/francisco-ratti-in-misshapes-at-praxis-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Ratti in \u2018Misshapes\u2019 at Praxis NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If figures appear at all in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.praxis-art.com\/en\/exhibitions\/misshapes-group-show\/\">Praxis NY\u2019s<\/a> summer group show \u2018Missapes,\u2019 they pose in place or rarely dominate.\u00a0 Instead, still lives are a commanding presence, particularly Francisco\u2019s Ratti\u2019s large indistinct arrangements of objects that simultaneously look low-res digital and handmade.\u00a0 The Argentina-based artist\u2019s practice involves drawing on a cell phone screen, then transferring his images to canvas.\u00a0 Here, \u2018Naturaleza\u2019 (Nature) is a pleasant, conventional arrangement of flowers, plants and food stuffs but includes a more realistic painting of a tree trunk inserted onto the larger painting\u2019s surface.\u00a0 Gashed and supporting a haphazard sign warning that a property is being monitored, the tree imagery complicates what a painting can offer at one time.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Aug 30<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3012px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/2257d6f7-038c-1559-e6c5-f8f88d2501d0.jpg\" width=\"3012\" height=\"2250\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Ratti, Naturaleza, acrylic on canvas, 59 x 78 \u00be inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/7bbba600-d45f-c5b5-6e55-b1a6674ecd0a.jpg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"3637\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Ratti, Naturaleza, acrylic on canvas, 59 x 78 \u00be inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If figures appear at all in Praxis NY\u2019s summer group show \u2018Missapes,\u2019 they pose in place or rarely dominate.\u00a0 Instead, still lives are a commanding presence, particularly Francisco\u2019s Ratti\u2019s large indistinct arrangements of objects that simultaneously look low-res digital and handmade.\u00a0 The Argentina-based artist\u2019s practice involves drawing on a cell phone screen, then transferring his &hellip; 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