Art Madrid'23 – RUBÉN RAMOS BALSA FOOTSTEPS

Icosahedron. Rubén Ramos Balsa

 

 

Rubén Ramos Balsa, Santiago de Compostela 1978. He is an artist, who works between Spain and Japan. This is the first large-scale exhibition at a museum institution. It brings together work created throughout his career, without any specific continuity, but tries to bring it all together with the sense that the viewer wants to give. For Ramos, technology and integration in his works are the perfect blend to write his speech. Throughout his career he has exhibited in several national and international galleries, acquired the fame after participating in Pabellón de España in the Venice Biennale of 2007, his work did capture the attention of all. 

 

 

Double the half. Rubén Ramos Balsa

 

 

"Double of the half" is the name of the exhibition, curated by Juan de Nieves. The show is not articulated in a methodical way but plays with the versatility of the works so that they themselves are based on the discourse. The determination of space and time make the composition articulate in front of the visitor's eyes. The conceptual organization, makes the artist make and unravel according to the space in which exposes and thus achieves this dynamic and participatory staging.

 

 

Small observatory. Rubén Ramos Balsa

 

 

The exhibition, has 60 works that record unrepeatable and arrested moments that can be interpreted as simple exercises of physics and mechanics that make question the visual space. The works that make up this exhibition are photographs, videos, sculptures and installations. Some of them, have been modified for this space, following the line of the artist. With this it wants to relativize the character of them in a unitary way and to get open and connected structures.

 

 

 Work of Rubén Ramos

 

 

The landscape, refers to different scientific research scenes, with this acquires a didactic and fresh character that demands the attention of the viewer. If you are in the area, do not hesitate to approach and enjoy this extrasensory experience to which Ruben Ramos invites you. Until April 30, 2017.

 

 

 

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.