Daily Image
27-08-2009
Dislocaciones - Pictures at an Exhibition
| Submitter: | Zsolt Paragi |
| Description: | In his first solo exhibition in Columbia, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria presents a series of works that query the fault lines between representation and interpretation. Borrowing from the histories of art, science, and technology, Gaviria mixes disparate models of translation, codification and representation with an acute awareness of their process of abstraction. As part of this exhibition, Gaviria presents a group of images obtained with the aid of radio telescopes. These depict (amongst others) distant quasars – the brightest and farthest sources of light in the known Universe. Owing to the incredible distance of these galaxies in relation to the Earth, it is impossible to represent their actual visual appearance. Instead, the radio signals retrieved via the telescopes are translated into different forms of “optical” images that, while exact in their presentation of the accumulated data, are only graphical interpretations of their subject. Working with the assistance of Zsolt Paragi (JIVE) and other astronomers, Gaviria presents two different visualizations for each of the represented objects. With the measurements and diagrams that would otherwise provide an entryway to their structural logic removed, the images allude to the discrepancy between source, signifier and signified, present in any mode of inter-medial translation. Born in 1975 in Bogotá, Columbia, Andres Ramírez Gaviria studied art in the US and Europe before settling in Vienna, Austria. His work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as BA – CA Kunstforum (Vienna), Kunsthaus Graz (Graz), Kunsthaus Dresden (Dresden), IV and V Caribbean Biennial (Santo Domingo), CAFA Museum of Art (Beijing), Arte Camara ArtBo (Bogotá), the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair (Madrid), sonambiente (Berlin) and transmediale.06 (Berlin) among numerous others. |
| Copyright: | Andres Ramírez Gaviria |
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