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Ramiro Estrada: "Maybe - Poetical Fiction"

27. April 2022

From May 14 to May 28, works by Chur artist Ramiro Estrada will be on display at the Stadtgalerie. The exhibition offers an exciting insight into the drawing and sculptural work of the artist with Mexican roots.

"In his drawings and sculptures, Chur-based artist Ramiro Estrada interrogates the countless possible manifestations of human existence. With his expressive ductus, he brings before our eyes the poetry, laughter and seriousness that accompany each of us through our lives."

Opening one of the drawing books bound in fine natural linen, which Ramiro Estrada presents in the City Gallery, one is both surprised and impressed from the first moment. Hour after hour and day after day, the artist has explored the face of human existence in his "Facebook" project, which has lasted for years. The result is thousands of drawings that approach the real and the possible manifestations of the human being in a fast, expressive and at the same time concentrated stroke. And so, in the exhibition, a graphic elemental force of the poetry of existence, condensed in the flow of moments, comes before our eyes. Joy, pain, moments of reflection and meditation and hours of relaxed freedom manifest themselves in equal measure in the fast, sweeping and precise drawings and allow the viewer to immerse himself in the possibilities and impossibilities of poetic worlds of the individual and the social collective.

Technical skill and artistic intuition
The technically outstanding drawings are in turn joined by clay sculptures from Estrada's hand. Shown for the first time in Chur, the impressive sculptures immediately reveal the academically trained sculptor. In a free and skilful sculptural style and with the colorful intensity of his Mexican homeland, the artist plays on the space with his poetic fictions, reduced to head sculpture and bust, about possible human character traits and ways of being. In addition to his obvious technical ability, Estrada's unerring sense for the profound and the essential is fascinating, as it is in his drawings and sculptural work, which he puts into practice with sure and consistently guided artistic intuition.

Vernissage
Sat. May 14, 2021 - 5 to 8 p.m.
Stadtgalerie, im Rathaus, Poststrasse, Chur
Afterparty at CUADRO22

Exhibition
Thu. May 19 to Sat. May 28
open each
Thu. and Fri. 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sat. 2 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.