The London Consortium
Static. Issue 05 | ISSN 1754-5374
Birkbeck College TATE ICA - Insitute of Contemporary Arts The Architectural Association School of Architecture
 
   

To look and to look

Raul Gomez Valverde

Origin: Static Issue 05
Content: Images

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My project examines the qualities of change in landscape. The material includes drawings, animations and photographs that came about as a result of a yearlong project developed inside The Inner Circle of The Regent’s Park in London. The images reveal natural transformation caused by seasonal changes, weather conditions and human intervention. They also reflect the multiples variables implied in the process of perceiving our environment, playing with tools of both analytical and emotional representation. The circular graphs, presented in a series of posters and a large-format projection, are mathematical charts based on photographs taken in the same position during one year, revealing changes in the chromatic-proportions of the original scene. The photographs also deal with documentation of pictorial change.

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Contributor:

Raul Gomez Valverde is a Spanish artist living and working in London and Madrid. He is interested in how looking conveys different emotional processes that affect our understanding of the world. His recent work explores visual perception of landscape as an evolving environment. He shapes it as a dialogue between different systems of representation guided by a subjective vision, both expressive and analytical. His previous work examined surveillance as a power structure that affects our perception of reality and combines pleasures of observing and being observed.

He is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2007, MA Communication Design) and is currently working on his PhD at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, studying history of computer and new media imagery and emotional responses to digital drawing. In 2003 he created Net-arte.com, an on-line platform for artists and galleries in Spain. His work has been displayed in London (Final Show, 2007, Mall Galleries), Cantabria (Landscape, 2005, Artesles International Contemporary Art Show) and Madrid (Shall we dance? 2004, Centro de Arte Joven) and Avila (All about you, 2004, Caja de Avila).

Associated Links:

http://www.gomezvalverde.com

 

 

 
   
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