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Jose Ramon Ais
Artificial Paradises The scent wafting off of Jose Ramon Ais’ airy field-scape series Hierbas is artificial and virtual – and yet it draws you into an all too pristine nature. The photographs… Read more
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Introduction
Artificial Paradises
The scent wafting off of Jose Ramon Ais’ airy field-scape series Hierbas is artificial and virtual – and yet it draws you into an all too pristine nature. The photographs depict all forms of herbs from forest and field beneath a sensationally created skyscape, for which the Bilbao-based photographer, artist, and filmmaker uses tricky technical aids to achieve dramatic presentation. The plants, which are so carefully arranged, are set under an artificial sky through the process of chroma keying. Thus the grassy ensemble has the effect of having been brought to the stage by a garden director. The images revel in soft, impressionistic tones and in their artificial consistency remind one of dioramas from the 19th century. Then, artists used just as illusionistic effects to form a neat, apparently transition-free unity between real-life plants and painted backgrounds. Ais’ summer-fresh repertoire of images switches from compositional landscape photography to scenic naturalism. They exhibit influence from the Japanese art of Ikebana and engender an exquisite, airy naturalness not least through the rustling, wild growth of real plants. The grasshopper’s perspective further strengthens the airy overall impression and is augmented by a finely extracted, sharp focus. Thus can the viewer zoom in quite close on this virtual scent and flowered spectacle of field sorrel and balsam, lemon balm and Azores thyme. At the same time, the pictures are especially convincing as harmoniously balanced compositions. With each picture, you are put on the track of a new, artificial experience in nature that an elaborate photographer intentionally conjured into a garden of visual perception.
Stephan Reisner
The scent wafting off of Jose Ramon Ais’ airy field-scape series Hierbas is artificial and virtual – and yet it draws you into an all too pristine nature. The photographs depict all forms of herbs from forest and field beneath a sensationally created skyscape, for which the Bilbao-based photographer, artist, and filmmaker uses tricky technical aids to achieve dramatic presentation. The plants, which are so carefully arranged, are set under an artificial sky through the process of chroma keying. Thus the grassy ensemble has the effect of having been brought to the stage by a garden director. The images revel in soft, impressionistic tones and in their artificial consistency remind one of dioramas from the 19th century. Then, artists used just as illusionistic effects to form a neat, apparently transition-free unity between real-life plants and painted backgrounds. Ais’ summer-fresh repertoire of images switches from compositional landscape photography to scenic naturalism. They exhibit influence from the Japanese art of Ikebana and engender an exquisite, airy naturalness not least through the rustling, wild growth of real plants. The grasshopper’s perspective further strengthens the airy overall impression and is augmented by a finely extracted, sharp focus. Thus can the viewer zoom in quite close on this virtual scent and flowered spectacle of field sorrel and balsam, lemon balm and Azores thyme. At the same time, the pictures are especially convincing as harmoniously balanced compositions. With each picture, you are put on the track of a new, artificial experience in nature that an elaborate photographer intentionally conjured into a garden of visual perception.
Stephan Reisner
Bio
| 1971 | born in Bilbao, Spain |
| Studied Art at the University of the Basque Country, Spain | |
| 1997 - 1999 | Doctorate from the Fine Arts faculty of the University of Basque Country, Spain |
| Awarded a grant from the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France | |
| 1971 | Lives and works in Bilbao, Spain |
Awards
2004 Certamen de arte Alavés
Collections
| Los Bragales Collection | |
| Artium - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain | |
| Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain | |
| Bilbao Art Foundation, Bilbao, Spain | |
| Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Santander and Cantabria, Spain |
Exhibitions
Single Exhibitions
2011 Hierbas, Galería José Robles, Madrid, Spain
2004 Decorativa.System On, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
1998 Galería Artefacto, Vigo, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2010 Itinerarios 08 09 XVI Becas de Artes Plásticas, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
2009 El tiempo que venga, La Colección IX. Artium, Centro-Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria, Spain
2008 Descubrimientos 08, PhotoEspaña 2008, Complejo El Aguila, Madrid, Spanien
2006 Un dedo en el río, Exposición colectiva, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Premiados Certamen de arte alavés, Sala Luís de Ajuria, Vitoria, Spain
2004 Ensamblajes”, Galería Sala de Emergencia. Exposición colectiva, Denia, Alicante, Spain
2003 Residentes 2003, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
2003 Certamen de arte alavés, Sala Luis de Ajuria, Vitoria, Spain
2002 Lick the window, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2002 Accès(s), Festival accès(s) cultures électroniques 02. Pau, France
2002 Atracción - reacción, Festival de nuevas músicas, Arteleku, Donostia, Spain
2002 La Fiancerie, Burdeos, France
2001 Galería BF15, Lyon, France
2001 Ecole de Beaux Arts, Metz, France
2011 Hierbas, Galería José Robles, Madrid, Spain
2004 Decorativa.System On, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
1998 Galería Artefacto, Vigo, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2010 Itinerarios 08 09 XVI Becas de Artes Plásticas, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
2009 El tiempo que venga, La Colección IX. Artium, Centro-Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria, Spain
2008 Descubrimientos 08, PhotoEspaña 2008, Complejo El Aguila, Madrid, Spanien
2006 Un dedo en el río, Exposición colectiva, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Premiados Certamen de arte alavés, Sala Luís de Ajuria, Vitoria, Spain
2004 Ensamblajes”, Galería Sala de Emergencia. Exposición colectiva, Denia, Alicante, Spain
2003 Residentes 2003, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
2003 Certamen de arte alavés, Sala Luis de Ajuria, Vitoria, Spain
2002 Lick the window, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2002 Accès(s), Festival accès(s) cultures électroniques 02. Pau, France
2002 Atracción - reacción, Festival de nuevas músicas, Arteleku, Donostia, Spain
2002 La Fiancerie, Burdeos, France
2001 Galería BF15, Lyon, France
2001 Ecole de Beaux Arts, Metz, France
Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | Solo exhibition, Trinta Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 2011 | Hierbas, Galería José Robles, Madrid, Spain |
| 2011 | Alegría en el jardín, Galería Alegría, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2004 | Decorativa.System On, Bilbao Art Foundation, Spain |
| 1998 | Solo exhibition, Galería Artefacto, Vigo, Spain |
Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | Friedensvertrag 1813, San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián, Spain |
| 2011 | Falso paisaje, Galería Mecánica, Sevilla, Spain |
| 2010 | Itinerarios 08/09, XVI Becas de Artes Plásticas, Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain |
| 2009 | El tiempo que venga - La Colección IX, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain |
| 2006 | Un dedo en el río, Spanish Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2005 | Ensamblajes, Galería Sala de Emergencia, Alicante, Spain |
| 2003 | Residentes 2003, Bilbao Art Foundation, Spain |
| 2003 | Lick the window, Atlanta College of Art Gallery Atlanta, USA |
| 2002 | Buy- sell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
| 2001 | Buy- sell, École de Beaux Arts, Metz, France |
| 2000 | Lost in Sound, Galician Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 1999 | Enclaves, Galerie Amasté, Bilbao, Spain |
| 1996 | GGURE ARTEA 96, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain |
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