Ramón
Enrich is a painter of exquisite urban landscapes rendered with an oblique
light, clear and intense, that gives strong relief to the architectural
elements that are the basis of his compositions. Referred to by the artist
as "the crossing of Versailles with your everyday vegetable garden,"
the paintings of Ramón Enrich are created by the multiple applications
of thin layers paint that are subsequently frottéed and even erased
from the canvas, resulting in evocative images that recall piazzas of
antiquity or greco-egyptian agoras with the serenity of Pompeiian frescoes. A strong sense of perspective, a rich chromatic register and an ironic
use of industrial and rural architectural structures (often marked with
large and enigmatic typographic forms) in an endless landscape devoid
of any figures, present the viewer with a stage set for a play yet to
be realized. As Luis Eduardo Aute remarked in his catalogue essay for
the artist, "They are habitats that never were or ever will be inhabited."
Referred to by the artist
as "the crossing of Versailles with your everyday vegetable garden,"
the paintings of Ramón Enrich are created by the multiple applications
of thin layers paint that are subsequently frottéed and even erased
from the canvas, resulting in evocative images that recall piazzas of
antiquity or greco-egyptian agoras with the serenity of Pompeiian frescoes. A strong sense of perspective, a rich chromatic register and an ironic
use of industrial and rural architectural structures (often marked with
large and enigmatic typographic forms) in an endless landscape devoid
of any figures, present the viewer with a stage set for a play yet to
be realized. As Luis Eduardo Aute remarked in his catalogue essay for
the artist, "They are habitats that never were or ever will be inhabited."
