Ramon Enrich is a Spanish painter whose production revolves around an uncluttered, yet powerful staging of space, confronting abstraction and figuration. Such as the Minimalists, from whom he learned and got inspired by, he recreates deserted spaces that are still inhabited with a peculiar atmosphere. Built around geometric shapes, architectural elements are breaking a visual silence, as Ramon Enrich gives a character of monumentality to essential volumes.
Defining himself as an architecture painter, he looks for the simplicity of form and, by making very mysterious and dark lines combined with wide-opened horizons, gives a presence to the emptiness which becomes a central element of the composition.
Emptiness is then rationalized by full and brutal architectural elements created out of a restricted range of shapes. Giving some relief and a touch of irony to an almost metaphysical atmosphere, stairs, ramps, walls and vegetation are all familiar elements that invite the viewer to wander and take us on a journey that is more psychological than physical.
“I want to let something hidden be seen, allowing inexplicable connections as I am looking for things that keep the mystery, resembling closed boxes that no one knows what’s in them, but anyone can imagine.”
Initiating every composition on a grid above which he places the different volumes and the objects, Ramon Enrich synthesizes architecture and space, and works in a theatrical conception with a real sense of staging. Abrupt lines are the foundation of a perspective work that can be dual. The perspectives of Ramon Enrich’s works is either a bird’s eye view allowing to seize the immensity of space surrounding the buildings, or a frontal point of view featuring an obstructed horizon yet suggested by some elements of the compositions such as apertures and doors.
Ramon Enrich’s creative process leaves room to intuition, and he is sometimes guided by how volumes reshape their spatial environment. His intuition sometimes leads him to superimpose the different compositions, following a dynamic tat leads him to the final result.
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