| Fabrizio Del Rincón sees photography as a delightful vehicle for translating inner visions to outer reality. The artistic process is fueled by an incessant curiosity and a passion for intuitive experimentation, which manifest in a myriad of light, texture, and color. The artist describes this process as magical, being nourishing yet all-encompassing. He believes his eager mind has found what his heart desires in terms of both sincerity and originality. In his photography, one can observe the influence of forces outside of the artist’s control, which nevertheless become defining, organic elements of the finished work. This is also photography in its purest form, simply light and camera, rejecting the use of new technology, image manipulation, and cumbersome equipment, which lends Del Rincón’s work a true authenticity. | 
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Pete Littlewood
Fabrizio del Rincón is a Mexican artist represented in part by Gallery nine5, New York City.
Fabrizio del Rincón, Feminine mystique & Shadows of Mexico, 2005-2008. Photographs, 20 x 24 – 40 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Fabrizio Del Rincón sees photography as a delightful vehicle for translating inner visions to outer reality. The artistic process is fueled by an incessant curiosity and a passion for intuitive experimentation, which manifest in a myriad of light, texture, and color. The artist describes this process as magical, being nourishing yet all-encompassing. He believes his eager mind has found what his heart desires in terms of both sincerity and originality. In his photography, one can observe the influence of forces outside of the artist’s control, which nevertheless become defining, organic elements of the finished work. This is also photography in its purest form, simply light and camera, rejecting the use of new technology, image manipulation, and cumbersome equipment, which lends Del Rincón’s work a true authenticity.
Light is Del Rincón’s primary tool in the creation of optical illusions that allude to a more personal form of illusionary vision. Del Rincón aims to transform reality as perceived with the naked eye, to create visual layers of transferred meaning, which in turn, through their depth, create a sense of captivating fantasy. His latest project marks a return to the body while simultaneously re-contextualizing it as a surface. Skin becomes a canvas painted with the light from a projector. Cartoons cover female curves, yet the transparency of the projection enables a bleeding of both canvas and paint. Contradiction and paradox are rife in the resulting visual tension, yet there is poignancy in the unity of canvas and paint, body, and light.
The same project explores other fresh surfaces for the projection of pre-existing images. Tree foliage is also reinterpreted as canvas, this time for portraits of fallen Mexican revolutionaries. In this way the artist moves between the private realm of the body and the public, re-contextualizing Mexican history and monumentalism itself. The past becomes present and enters the eternal cycle of nature, transcending time and space. Visually the images have a ghostlike quality, again alluding to childhood fear and fantasy. In this way, Del Rincón, who was born in Caborca, Sonora, Mexico in 1975, pays homage to the folklore of his homeland, a mix of history and superstition, created this time in the Berlin night.
