Lorenzo Ramos Benítez

Lorenzo Ramos Benítez
Cardedeu, Barcelona, 1970

STATEMENT

The most recent works which I am working on, are inspired on the designs of wallpaper, the tiles and the ceramic floors that decorate our houses.

These prints are placed on the surface of very different places. Most of them remain outdoors; are parts of empty building sites and are the unique elements that remind the buildings that were constructed on them. Now they delimit an open space that is going to be won over by nature and will allow it to return gradually.

An essential part of my creation process lies in the compilation of those decorative materials with artistic value that have signs of domestic life. With the help of Manila paper, the graphite and coal pencils, the engraving inks, the gouache, the craft papers and the latex, I can reinterpret these vestiges of intimacy and reconstruct the collective memory of the daily life of those people that inhabited those demolished homes.

August, 2015

1993-1999
Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona

Solo exhibitions
2015
_Envans
Vallgrassa, Centre Experimental de les Arts, Parc del Garraf, Barcelona
2014
_Envans
L’estació és allà… espai per les arts i les lletres, Cardedeu, Barcelona
2013
_La paret de l’art
Teatre de Ponent, Granollers, Barcelona
2011/ 2012
_ L’ aparador de l’Obrador
L’obrador, Cardedeu, Barcelona

Group exhibitions
2013
_Abissal d’Art
Seu de l’Obra Cultural de l’Alguer, Alguero, Sardegna, Italia
_Vallgrassa visita Begues
Església vella de Sant Cristòfol (la Rectoria), Begues, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona
_Exposició col·lectiva
Vallgrassa, Centre Experimental de les Arts, Parc del Garraf, Barcelona
2012
_Gravats
Vallgrassa, Centre Experimental de les Arts, Parc del Garraf, Barcelona
_20 anys de l’Estudi d’Art Jordi Aligué · Anna Bellvehí
Sala Polivalent Tèxtil Rase, Cardedeu, Barcelona
_Reflex-Art
Barrio de Poble Sec, Cardedeu, Barcelona