From a era the place Outkast, JayZ, Nas, 2pac, and others had their tune performed, jammed, sung on each and every side road nook on the earth; From a era the place tune was once a method to ease tensions between other communities locally, to underline the violence of authority over society; To make us conscious about the sector we are living in, and not disregard it.
Together with her art work, Rebecca Maria invitations us to come back and wander in a wave of nostalgia at the side of the rhythms and sounds of hip-hop tradition. In each and every of her art work, with thick strokes laid down in steady motion, one temporarily recollects the shapes and colours of the emblematic album covers that illustrated the best titles within the historical past of hip-hop and influenced a complete cultural motion. Those works are very recognizable, even supposing no reasonable main points are obvious, which makes her creative signature. This taste alters and blurs with lightness what’s undeniably acquainted to us. Rebecca Maria unearths a private collection of works from her younger recollections. She owes this cultural heritage to her father, who, in spite of her want to switch radio stations or albums, by no means gave in, inking this nostalgia that she helps to keep on remembering.
“One thing I’ll by no means disregard is the nostalgia feeling once I pay attention to those albums nowadays and the days those albums have been launched,” Maria says. “I am hoping that’s one thing that remains with me and continues to encourage me.”
An atmospheric feeling emerges whenever you input the gallery area. The suspended art work are an instantaneous connection with the time when report stores have been striking from the ceiling the CDs of “the instant”, swiveling by way of themselves following the motion of the purchasers within the store. Rebecca Maria now not handiest desires to pay homage to those artists by way of representing them on her canvases, she additionally desires us to find this tradition in situ inside the gallery area itself. Thru this revel in, one can not deny the surprising want to again in time and to reside the effervescence of the power created on the time of the discharge of those albums.
Rebecca Maria is a self-taught artist in her follow, distinguishing herself by way of an way that is going past what portray undertakes in its measurement. She distances herself from a traditional layout of illustration by way of making us revel in totally what she needs to percentage with us: her musical cultural heritage. She strikes us and accompanies us with nostalgia that resonates melodiously inside of us. —Carlota de Torregrosa