Ramiro Chaves

Proyectos Monclova presents Ruido Viator by Ramiro Chaves.

The title of the exhibition combines two key concepts in Chaves’ practice: “ruido” (noise), an  allusion both to the excess of visual information that saturates contemporary cities and to  the deliberate disarticulation that defines his compositions; and “viator” (traveler), evoking  both the mobility of people and the artist’s own movement across disciplines: from  photography to painting, from the visual to the sculptural.

In the sculptural realm, Chaves presents works carved in wood, modeled in clay, and a mid format bronze sculpture. These pieces explore materiality and delve into the notion of  animality, proposing a bestiary that merges species native to specific areas of Mexico City— such as ringtails and frogs—with fantastical creatures imagined by the artist himself.

The pictorial section features artworks built up through superimposed layers of diverse  materials: acrylic, clay, oil, paper prints, cell phone screens, record sleeves, and shards of glass. In both painting and drawing, Chaves combines manual techniques—collage, ink, acrylic  paint—with processes of mechanical (re)production such as photography and printmaking,  weaving a network of material and conceptual references that animate his proposal.

Ruido Viator unfolds as a terrain of passage, where disciplines intersect, materials converse,  and images invite viewers to move from the fragmentary toward the poetic.

–Proyectos Monclova