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Portfolio. photography. installation. sculpture. Adriana Ramírez M. Curriculum Vitae. adrianalrm@yahoo.com.
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Portfolio photography installation sculpture Adriana Ramírez M. Curriculum Vitae adrianalrm@yahoo.com
The allure of Adriana Ramirez photographs lies neither in technique, nor in composition, but rather in how she uses conventional objects in an unconventional way. These objects remain within their usual contexts and do not change in order to become art. Instead, there is always some kind of twist of reality or something slightly amiss. Or there is repetition of patterns or elements. In other cases, there might be a surprise encounter, or a perverse coincidence. In any case, Ramirez's strength is her intuitive ability to see, find and capture what is amiss, what is not allowed, what is controversial and what is out of sync. Since photography is her lifestyle, she has an uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time. Thus sharing her perspective of what is real. Sylvia Suarez Curator
Visual Essay Series: Territory and Tolerance Cienaga-Colombia Digital photography 295 x 50 cm 2006 Part of Botero Exhibition Bogota, Colombia, April, 2007 Territory and Tolerance: series of pictures and visual sketches where life is photographed without intervention, capturing how man tolerates and inserts into his normal life -in order of surviving- the consequences of different social conflicts. This project addresses questions about he decisions taken by forced and the affirmation of the political position in spite of the social conditions.
Nature and time 2009 Digital photography Colombia
Advertise for sale Series: Territory and tolerance Digital photography/ 2008
EXIT 2007 Digital photography Colombia
Street´s solutions Digital photography Colombia 2008
VISUAL ESSAY - COME AS YOU ARE Digital photography 120 x 30 cm 2009 Edition of 5 Norway/Holland/Colombia Exhibit at VAMOS Nueveochenta Gallery
A visual essay is a construction pretty similar to a written or spoken phrase, where the meaning of each elements – images or words- make a tiny turn to be in concordance and built a whole proposition. All this assuming meanings are not static, and that relations between sign, significance and interpreter have a dynamic that can be altered by factors as the “topic” ( the issue talking about), the “social conventions” (the pre-agreements established by the community), “the pertinence” (relation among the phrase’s utility and the conversation’s objectives), and the “circumstance” ( the tacit elements that surround the speakers). A visual essay takes advantage of the sway of each picture between the concepts of presentation and significance. A picture is not a reality and neither a sign. It is always wondering away among these two extremes. Then, is when photography is articulated with others, that it experiences processes of signification analogous as a word when is used and leaves of just re-presenting.
Series: TO FIT IN Visual essay Digital photography 2009 TO FIT IN is a series of pictures and visual essays that speak and question the deep need of everyone to find the “right place”. A huge Lego piece is used to identify and connect the characters.
Series: TO FIT IN Visual essay Digital photography 2009
Detail Series: TO FIT IN Visual essay Digital photography 2009
dolls Series: If you want to be Digital Photography 2005
dolls Series: If you want to be Digital Photography 2005
drawings and sculpture Using unusual materials, recognizable forms appear in front of the spectator, playing with the concept of drawing. SPACE DRAWINGS reverse the logical and geometrical drawing process. In real life, line does not exist as an independent entity; what is perceived on the reality depends on the light's effects on the matter and its planes. On the other hand, in these sculptures line suggests and defines the spaces, inviting the viewer to fill the vacuum since his own experience and recollections.
Icon Spatial Drawing Wire 2009
Replica Spatial Drawing Bronze Wire 2009
dibujos espaciales The effect of invisible and imaginable planes is consolidated with the photographs of the sculptures and their shadows. Contrary to what happens in three dimensions, where the gesture is limited and the lines have the rigor imposed by the source of each idea, in the pictures, objects are repeated, distorted, becoming almost a sketch.
paper drawings In a second instance we have the PAPER DRAWINGS where the line is passed by a laser burning the spaces between planes: then the original drawing is put together to reconstruct each one of the lines in a sculptural language –a plane that goes down, other that crosses and a third that goes up-, and in that way giving back to the line its original condition that is the game of light and planes. The minuscule scale in which this happens pretends to offer the spectator a swing between what is perceived (the line) and what it is (the vacuum).
containable And third, the CONTAINABLES. These are solid pieces, semitransparent which are based on the interface (the moment in which man, tool and action cross), of the objects and in the dialog that exists between its aesthetic, semiotic and utilitarian functions. They are the vacuum of elements as common as the spoon or the cup for drinking tea.
containable containables Tea time Resins Scale 1:1 2010
installation SWIMMING POOL Scenografic Drawing Bronze wire May 2009
Scenographic Drawing Intervention as a Guest Artist Bogotá Botanical Garden José Celestino Mutis 2009
Scenographic Drawing Intervention as a Guest Artist Bogotá Botanical Garden José Celestino Mutis 2009
Giant Spider Web Intervention as a Guest Artist Bogotá Botanical Garden Bronze Wire November 2009
Details Giant Spider Web Intervention as a Guest Artist Bogotá Botanical Garden Bronze Wire November 2009
dolls Installation Cake and coffee Time for girls Digital photography and books 2009
Teaching materials For temporary exhibitions and permanent collections of the National Museum
curriculum vitae Studies: 2000-05 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia 1992-99 Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia Solo Exhibitions 2010 Without lace or porcelain Universidad de Bellas Artes y Ciencias de Bolivar - Cartagena 2009 Swimming pool place Nueveochenta Gallery - Bogotá Spatial drawings – El Garaje Gallery - Bogotá 2004 Travel and significance - Los Andes University, Bogotá - Colombia Collective Exhibitions 2010 Vamos – MUSAC. Monteria 2009Regional selected artists. Central zone Art and Nature – Invited artist –Botanic Garden . Bogotá Vamos Nueveochenta Gallery - Nueveochenta Gallery FIA CARACAS – La Cometa Gallery Art Room. Fundation: Hospital Cardioinfantil - La Cometa Gallery 2008 Lesser to be , more to like - Art Museum . Natioanl University FIA - CARACAS LA OTRA . El Garaje Gallery 2007 Lesser means better, National University, Art Museum 3rd Click - El Garaje Gallery , July, Bogota, Colombia Valdres Art Society’s GallerySummer Exhibit - Norway. ARTECAMARA/Artbo, International Art Fair
curriculum vitae • 2007 Lesser means better, National University, Art Museum • 3rd Click - El Garaje Gallery , July, Bogota, Colombia • Valdres Art Society’s GallerySummer Exhibit - Valdres - Norway. • ARTECAMARA/Artbo, International Art Fair • Fourth Biennial Art awards, • Universidad de los Andes Alumni Gallery, November, Bogotá - Colombia • 2006 Fourth Biennial Art awards, • Universidad de los Andes Alumni Gallery, November, • Bogotá - Colombia • 2005 Photography and Fashion Exhibit, • Bogota’s Institute of Culture and Tourism. • ARTECAMARA/Artbo, International Art Fair • August Exhibit • Bogota’s Contemporary Art Museum • WARDS • First place, Interval International Photographic Contest • Second placeamateur, Category Mountain and Ocean, • ECCO Festival • PUBLICATIONS • Didactic materials. Museo Nacioanl de Colombia: • TRAVELLERS SOCIETY, 2003, 2005 • COLOMBIAN IMAGES FROM THE 19th CENTURY, 2003 • TRAVELLING THE WORLD – ALEJANDRO DE HUMBOLDT, 2002
curriculum vitae EXPERIENCE 2006-Today. 360 DEGREES Sculpture, painting, and photography DESIGN, ASSEMBLY AND PUBLICATION OF THE PROSPECTUS PARODOJAS EXPOSURE OF THE MASTER. Virgilio Barco Library. DESIGN AND ASSEMBLY DURING EXPOSURE, History of the National Pedagogical University. DESIGN, ASSEMBLY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE PROSPECTUS IDEP EXHIBITION 10 YEARS ON THE MOVE . 2006-2004 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COLOMBIA2000 Monitor of permanent and temporary exhibitions. Design of training materials and workshops for different audiences 2004 Fernando Botero 2004 BALMAIN DONATION /1945-2002 2002 REMBRANDT IN COLOMBIA. REASURES OF THE EUROPEAN PAINTING / GUSTAV RAU COLLECTION 2001 ALEJANDRO OBREGON: PAINTINGS 1947-1968 THE RETURN OF HUMBOLDT 2000 PICASSO IN BOGOTA: ITINERARY OF A GENIUSASSISTANT MARIA CONSUELO GARCÍA sculptor: Assistant in the production of imaginary exhibition, Museum of Art, Universidad National de Colomiba 2004. Adriana Lucia Ramírez