Ricco Maresca Gallery
529 W 20th St
212.627.4819
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Martín Ramírez, 086 Untitled, Courtesy of Ricco Maresca Gallery
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Opens Thursday Oct 2, 2008 (6–8pm)
Oct 2, 2008 – Nov 29, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off from his family in Jalisco, Mexico. Thinking himself abandoned in prison, Ramírez despaired. But after several failed breakout attempts, he found an escape in drawing. Whiling away the remainder of his life in various institutions — diagnosed as schizophrenic — he collected any available paper to draw solitary mementos of his former life as a rancher, each composition framed by repetitive lines and curves. In 2007, a survey at the American Folk Art Museum renewed interest in Ramírez's work, at times oddly reminiscent of Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico. Ricco Maresca presents a selection of 140 new drawings, which were discovered last year in a garage.
