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Dona Collection

The art of Dona portrays Woman as a subject of artistic creation, as an obsession and an inspiration when capturing the deep heartbeat that moves the world, and has as much historical significance as an artistic endeavor itself.
 
The original Dona sculptures have two main characteristics. One, very striking, is the choice of color. Ramis has selected and produced a range of very carefree, intense colors that in no way resemble the customary tone of human skin, certainly, but also not the chromatic dissidences that other artists have practiced for decades to represent the human body, let alone the female body.
 
With second characteristic being the formal subtlety with which the curved surfaces of the pieces have been finished. The sculptures have an almost utopian smoothness, as if these women had escaped from the final sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” This perfection in craftsmanship, combined with the vibration of color, unique in each piece, turns them into a kind of totems, symbolic and at the same time carnal forms that one can only bow down to in sincere adoration.
 

About Damian Ramis

“I was born among sculptures. I learned to walk among plaster molds, half-kneaded clay, and bronze figures, while watching my mother modeling large anatomical shapes out of clay, with the prelude of a Chopin piece floating in the studio.”
 
First Passion
 
Drawing was Damian’s first childhood passion; school notebooks served as the perfect medium for inventing colorful fantasy characters that often helped him escape the monotony of the classrooms. At nine years old, he had the idea of dismantling a Walt Disney film from a toy cinema and replacing the reel with one he had drawn and colored by hand, featuring a daring fisherman battling huge sharks on the high seas. Perhaps that was when the iconoclast he had always carried inside was born; an iconoclast who needed to forge his own paths.

Growing Up

He entered adolescence with The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Otis Redding as the soundtrack. It’s no wonder that in that psychedelic and turbulent sixties setting, with his creative hormones boiling, he dedicated himself to drawing dozens of hippie posters and decorating beautiful message t-shirts: “Make love as if it were war,” and “Life is a woman and Soul music.”

Divining into Learning

Ramis began his academic preparation at the School of Arts and Crafts, where for two years he drew large classic statues in charcoal and started studying figure drawing. He left that stage more knowledgeable but not tamed. His passion for exploring new ways to express himself with different materials led him to alternate those tidy charcoal drawings with experiments burning colored waxes on canvas and creating insect drawings with coffee.

After a brief period at the Superior School of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid), Damian joined the Faculty of Fine Arts Sant Jordi (Barcelona), majoring in Sculpture, where he encountered a handful of boring teachers and fascinating classmates.

Back Home

Back in Mallorca, Damian joined a group of artists with whom he experimented with video art, photocopying as a creative medium, and public performances. During that time in the 80s, he worked on concrete pieces, pigmented fabrics, and polyester resin figures.

His Work

Since then, research and the quest for new forms and colors along different paths have been a common thread in his work. Along the way, there have been losses and encounters, doubts and certainties. But it was –and continues to be– the journey. Over the years, Damian’s work –both sculpture and painting– has traveled to Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva, Toulouse, Shanghai, London, Stockholm, Kiel, Paris, New York, and San Juan de Puerto Rico. Although the important thing is that, wherever his works are, they all remain alive and growing.

The essential aspect is that his work always resonates as a new reality; it is the vibrant and exciting physical representation of the life he contemplates every day with the same starry eyes as that child who filled his school notebooks with drawings.

Damian Ramis

Find out more about the artist at his personal website

www.damianramis.com

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