Gallery archivos - pérez rayego

09 2024

no bety, no desire to write (just an update of the script for the feature film El Señor de Ébano in the shortest and most unlivable days of winter), no… only photography remains

january
the first picture of the year, the first day of the year, and of course, the boss (yes, I'm a sucker) `024_093`

january
sun with spots in a puddle `024_097`

january
very very pregnant syrphid `024_005`

january
spring bee (in january) `024_006`

january
Bruno angry with the photographer `024_022`

january
family portrait with sun halo `024_023`

march
self-portrait sitting on a stool `024_014`

april
photomontage of three photographs of the same animal (look) `024_028`

april
full moon set with small interior mirage `024_038`

april
sun with spots and iridescent clouds `024_040`

april
sun with spots on the balcony and swift `024_043`

08 Comets

time, space, color … a path from the figurative to the foundations of reality: the abstract. A single 2-second exposure photograph, one to focus and one to paint.

If a global catastrophe happened today we could not survive a long period without sunlight, neither a generalized glaciation or unexpected star emissions… The fact that a simple animal species like ours can overcome the adversity that can be exposed by an entire planet or a whole solar system or a whole galaxy would require a precise conjunction of efforts. And humanity, in all its meanings, is unequivocally compartmentalized by useless boundaries erected with a blind utilitarianism. One planet, One State; a heart, millions of simultaneous beats, as told in The black sun, or we will end up becoming more of a cosmic insignificance.

04 vertical

obsession with symmetry

the moon near the water, venus and jupiter `VER_006`

01 naturalezas

El analogón de juan manuel pérez rayego

The image with its immediacy and its realism allows us to give real meaning to all the “things”. The only pre-existence of the reality gives to the artists the possibility to reproduce it as much as to transform it and, even, deform it. The spectator is placed before that baroque idea about the doubt that man has when it is about to confront with the represented objects, as in Etienne Pascal pointed in his essay pour Les Coniques, where the same reality can generate different perspectives according to the visual system used or, getting a bit further, where the images work, following the ANALOGON of Sartre, over the environment that the image itself discovers and organizes in a sensitive way not being able to tell the difference between the material and the intentions. This argument, understood by Juan Manuel Perez Rayego makes his works to let us getting lost in that labyrithm of the eye-sight to unveil part of the features of a reality. And for that he masterfully modulates the dialectic of the Known and the unrecognizable or of the invisible and what can be seen ( visible). And even connect art and science, technology and humanism to save the barriers that could appear at the time of combining them and give light to the controversy that the contemporary world has created around these concepts.
Javier Cano Ramos, text for the exhibition of Natures in Casa de la Cultura, Don Benito, Badajoz. 2013

guerra V
Fucking assholes, hidden as women. Rats, unhealthy envy. Toys! I'll kill you`NAT-003`

bandera y escudo de recrea, república de la creación
`NAT_005`

peces
work acquired in the IX prize of plastic arts of the Broncense `NAT_008`

llevamos...
we carry a new world in our hearts., B. Durruti, in the spanish civil war `NAT_016`

02 ecuatorial

Photographs taken on a motorized equatorial mount (speed 1x), this is apt to follow the celestial objects at the same time that the Earth rotates, and on another alzimutal (Ox). Time stands still on his brother’s back, the space