Lionel Cruet: Sunburnt
April 14 - June 2, 2024
Opening Reception Sunday April 14, 2024, 1-3 pm
Sunburnt features Cruet’s video performance 'Sun Simulacrums.’ The title alludes to the history of human civilizations and the use of the sun as a symbol of god, energy, power, and clarity. Ultimately, the performance challenges viewers to reflect on our role in the climate crisis and the delicate natural world on planet Earth. Other works featured include ‘As far as the eyes can see’ print series, ‘Exercises to understand how to be together (Hand open)’, a series of carbon prints, and ‘Without Horizons’, a large scale painting on polyethylene canvas. This industrial material is used in high risk areas and the orange color is indicative of caution and/or danger. Cruet uses these multiple media, which include experimental digital printing processes, performance, and audiovisual installations, to confront issues concerning ecology, geopolitics, and technology.
Lionel Cruet was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and lives and works in both New York City and San Juan. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño en Puerto Rico, a Master in Fine Arts - DIAP (Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice) and from CUNY - The City College of New York, and a Master in Education from the College of Saint Rose.
For more information please visit Cruet’s website.
painting on polyethylene canvas, 8’ x 10’
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Without Horizons, is a painting on polyethylene canvas. The painting shows a landscape of mangroves through of black paint strokes over an orange surface. This industrial material is used in high risk areas and the orange color is indicative of caution and / or danger. The title interrogates the idea of the landscape's horizon as one that has disappeared, an idea that the artist connects with the title and composition of the work visualizing the future of this fragile ecosystem.