RAMÓN MUÑOZ: A soga y tizón

“A soga y Tizón” marks the first solo exhibition of the Cadiz-born painter at the Yusto/Giner Gallery, following the artist's collaborations with the gallery in various contemporary art fairs such as ESTAMPA 2023, UVNT 2024, or at B4 Garage Seoul (South Korea), where the artist captivated audiences with his paintings.

In his new exhibition, Muñoz's painting transcends mere aesthetics to become a political and social discourse, where each brushstroke is a gesture of resistance against the homogenization of urban landscapes. His works reflect on the contradiction between the ephemeral and the enduring, the habitable and the desolate.

Ramón Muñoz invites us to delve into landscapes that capture everyday scenes from his immediate surroundings, stripped of any idealisation. His canvases become silent witnesses to urban life, where anonymous characters - static and devoid of emotion - serve as the foundation of a reality in constant transformation.

The exhibition not only confines itself to the canvas but expands into installation, creating a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork. Through this amalgamation of artistic references and personal experiences, Muñoz invites us to reflect on our own relationship with the surrounding environment.

“A soga y tizón” is an act of self-definition, where the artist confronts his own identity through creation. It is a reminder that, in an increasingly standardised world, individuality and resistance are acts of courage.

The exhibition consists of sixteen unpublished oil paintings. The Yusto/Giner Gallery utilises two of its four rooms to showcase Ramón Muñoz's new body of work. The "A Rope and Ember" exhibition will be open to the public until June 14th.

About the artist

Ramón Muñoz, born in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz (1998), studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville, where he also completed the Master of Idea and Production. His work stems from concepts such as doubt, identity duality, and introspection to address self-representation in ambiguous, simulated, or represented spaces based on or not on a reference model. Thus, painting offers unsettling scenarios, full of ambiguity and subtle irony that seek to stimulate the viewer, focusing on what is yet to be discovered.

Ramón Muñoz seeks to translate everyday situations into a personal pictorial language to generate a new vision of reality, born from the autobiographical and aiming to tackle current societal issues in a lighter manner. His painting captures all those experiences that have somehow been present during the creative process. The sum of these factors aims to distance the viewer from ordinary reality, offering them a pause and inviting them to explore the universe that emerges between representation and evocation.

Upcoming gallery exhibitions:

Art Busan Contemporary Art Fair. (Busan, South Korea) Yusto/Giner Gallery (booth no A-2) where works by Ángeles Agrela, Daniel Núñez, Fran Baena, Laura Vinós, Liam Fallon, Miguel Scheroff, Ramón Muñoz, and Yann Leto will be showcased.

On the cover: Compinches, Ramón Muñoz

Source:Yusto/Giner Gallery