Dona by Damian Ramis
Subscribe Subscribed 4Damián Ramis is an artist, painter and sculptor from Palma Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands in Spain. He started working as an artist at an early age under the tutelage of his mother, Remigia Caubet González, a famous Spanish artist and sculptor from Mallorca, Spain known for many pieces among which is the Nuredduna statue in the port of Palma. He went on to specialize in Sculpture at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona before returning to Mallorca to pursue his career.
The Dona Collection
This unique, one of a kind collection is based on using the woman’s body as a pretext rather than as a reference. It is a collection of works that required the artist to push the essence of the female body to the limit, leaving aside traditional forms and anecdotal details.
Each of the pieces in the collection is based on a previous study, using photographs, drawings, studies of internal structures and movement, and focused on the analysis of volume in its purest forms.
The objective of the Dona series has been to transcend matter and achieve the extreme simplification of its shapes and volumes. In each sculpture you will find the essence of the female anatomy in essential lines that, united in space, suggest the movement, elegance and sensuality of the woman’s body, and transform it into an allegory of balance and a metaphor for life.
About the Artist
I was born among sculptures; I learned to walk among plaster molds, half-kneaded clay and bronze figures, while I watched my mother modeling large clay anatomies, with a Chopin prelude illuminating the atmosphere of the studio. Drawing was my first childhood passion; The school notebooks were the supports on which he invented fantastic characters in full color. Those imagined worlds often made me forget the monotony of the classrooms.
Artistic evolution
I began my academic preparation at the School of Arts and Crafts where, for some years, I drew large classical statues in charcoal, while I also began drawing nudes. From this stage I came out more instrumented, but not domesticated. My passion for discovering new paths of expression led me to alternate those neat charcoal drawings with experiments with colored crayons burned on canvas, paintings with bleach, and paintings of insects made with coffee. I imagine that, even then, I sensed that art is matter asking for life, and that I could give it to it.
After a period specializing in Sculpture at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where I lived with a handful of boring professors and fascinating classmates, I returned to Mallorca where I joined a collective of artists. . independent artists with whom I experimented with video art, photocopying as a creative medium and performances on public roads. At that time – the 80s – I worked on pieces in pigmented concrete, canvases with sand and figures in polyester resin. Since then, research, the search for new shapes and colors through different routes and techniques, has been a common denominator in my work. Along the way there have been losses and encounters, doubts and certainties. But it was – and continues to be – the way.
Art: My Vital Source of Renewal
Over the years, my work – painting and sculpture – has traveled to Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva, Toulouse, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Kiel, Shanghai, Paris, New York and San Juan de Puerto Rico. In all these places I wish that my works continue to transmit all the life that I wanted to give them.
Why art is life; Making art is a way of living that allows me to revive myself, free and independent, in each of my works. As simple as that. That’s how important it is.
Contact
You can contact Damian via his website, https://www.damianramis.com