CLOSED FOR WINTER
Isidro Ramírez
The edition ‘Closed for Winter ’ by Isidro Ramírez is an elegant booklet, with a restful aspect and a discreet size. A turquoise cover recalls the color mix of sea and the sky much like the images of the Spanish photographer.
The Velvet Cell has chosen a light and thin appearance for the occasion, yet pleasing to the touch and inviting to be uncovered. The paper is nice, with a fine patina that holds the nuances of colors.
There are few images all taken in coastal resorts. The eye seems to claim a vanishing point, almost annoyed by what stands in the foreground. It is in this contrast, rather than a dialogue, between the built and the surrounding waters that propels the investigation of the author.
As well stated from the title, there is also a silence dictated by the sense of emptiness left by the summer visitors. All gone once again. As in an endless cycle. Yet all of this creates a pause for reflection on the function of architectural design and on the ambiguities that it can generate. These vacant spaces, as the author wrote at the end of the booklet, are a chance to become ourselves architects, and to fill these gaps with imagination.
These places, different from each other are connected by the intention to provoke the contradictory nature of the landscape, which appears to me as a central topic in the visual search of Isidro Ramírez.»
[- Steve Bisson]
Closed for Winter
Isidro Ramírez
16 pp / 152 x 177 mm
Saddle-Stitch, Colour Offset
ISBN 978-1-908889-17-1
Limited Edition of 300
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