The Cuban American
Phototheque Foundation is proud to present Rafael Lopez-Ramos’ solo
exhibition Don´t Swallow your Gum, displaying new digital works that
approach photographic images as found objects while appropriating
printed materials that fall into the interest field of his Wonderland
series, by turning a high-resolution scanner into a peculiar camera
obscura. A multilayered image emerges from this process, giving place to
a new graphic object that is beyond the classic “ready-made” notion as
it is actually closer to a remodeled
construction, an altered piece of clothing or a refurbished electronics:
old objects to which a cluster of new meaning and qualities are
insufflated.
Lopez Ramos’ Wonderland series premiered last year at the17 Frost Art Space, in Brooklyn, New York. His artworks are usually structured on multiple visual and semantic layers of contrasting iconographies from which a concept emerges. This new series analyzes the recurrence of sex in commercial advertising, and women in their double roll as a target and a commodified “object of desire” for those ad campaigns. As Marshall McLuhan noted, “the ad men are constantly breaking through into the Alice in Wonderland territory behind the looking glass, which is the world of sub-rational impulses and appetites.” This sex narrative carries a dark metaphor of our zeitgeist, while emulating the obscenity level of certain social, economic and political events we are currently witnessing in Europe and North America. Sex served as a side dish for finances and politics or a naughty collateral for toxic mortgages.
Lopez Ramos’ Wonderland series premiered last year at the17 Frost Art Space, in Brooklyn, New York. His artworks are usually structured on multiple visual and semantic layers of contrasting iconographies from which a concept emerges. This new series analyzes the recurrence of sex in commercial advertising, and women in their double roll as a target and a commodified “object of desire” for those ad campaigns. As Marshall McLuhan noted, “the ad men are constantly breaking through into the Alice in Wonderland territory behind the looking glass, which is the world of sub-rational impulses and appetites.” This sex narrative carries a dark metaphor of our zeitgeist, while emulating the obscenity level of certain social, economic and political events we are currently witnessing in Europe and North America. Sex served as a side dish for finances and politics or a naughty collateral for toxic mortgages.
Saturday, September 21 -Bird Road ArtWalk
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Cuban American Phototheque Foundation
4260 SW 74 Ave.
Miami, Florida 33155
The
Bird Road Art District
Ph. (786) 360-9333
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