Our September artist of the month is Ale Rambar whose innovate work explores the transformative energy of paper.
Ale Rambar
“I’m a Costa Rican visible artist centered primarily on works in paper, starting from framed items to artwork installations.”
Photograph credit score: Francisco Rojas
The place do you make your work?
I’ve a studio area in my home, in San José, Costa Rica. Right here is the place I create most of my framed artwork items. I really feel very fortunate to have the chance to stroll into my studio at any time, whether or not it’s the very first thing within the morning or on the newest hours at evening.
For bigger items, like artwork installations, I’ve been engaged on studio areas nearer to different artists, just like the artwork mission Temporal, and the design area Kamalio, each positioned in San José.
How lengthy have you ever been working with paper?
I started in 2014, presently I used to be ending college and starting to work as an architect. So, it has been round 8 years since I created my first formal piece.
I started to play with paper to deliver some three dimensionality to topographic illustrations, taking part in with the concept that a human physique may be translated right into a topographic mannequin. Since then I’ve been creating what I name “human topographies” made from layers of paper.
Extra not too long ago I started to create artwork installations the place colourful strips of paper hold, taking part in with the transformational high quality of paper. The idea behind these installations is that we are able to assist one another in the identical manner one strips holds the subsequent one. Collectively manner we are able to attain larger and farther than we may by ourselves.
The place do you discover inspiration?
Life on the whole impressed me. The best way every certainly one of us is searching for happiness, in no matter that may imply to every of us conjures up me. This has led me to have the ideas of tolerance, equality and cooperation as the principle matter in my artwork items.
I imagine that every certainly one of us has the suitable to be who we wish to be, to like who we wish to love, and to realize the objectives that really motivates us. That is one thing that has allowed me to work with a number of inclusion and belonging associations in addition to tasks that search these beliefs, just like the Award of Gender Equality of the European Union in Costa Rica.
Describe your work to us in three phrases:
Topographical – Enjoying with topography is how all the things started for me. That is the technical foundation of my work.
Private – Since lots of my items come from subjects relating to inclusion and belonging I often discover myself being near concepts which might be near individuals’s hearts, or that come from my very own private experiences.
Stressed – Not too long ago I used to be instructed that I’m a fairly stressed artist, within the that means that I’m continuously trying to create one thing I haven’t finished earlier than. Extra not too long ago I started to work with NFTs, and this led me to discovered a mission known as Underscores with 6 gifted minds, the place we assist artists and firms to increase their tasks into the Metaverse or Web3.
What are your favourite papers to work with?
Some years in the past I grew to become mates with a Costa Rican paper gallery known as Papesa, they grew to become big allies of my artwork and so they led me to Favini Papers which is an Italian model of inventive papers.
I principally use their strains known as Prisma, Twist and lots of of their metallic papers, and I’m notably interested by working future items with their felt papers, I actually like their “bushy” texture.
What software may you not dwell with out?
I design the layers of most of my items digitally, so I’d say that the great ‘ole Adobe Illustrator is a software I couldn’t dwell with out. I’ve labored 100% manually earlier than, however now I choose to make use of the instruments that my profession taught me.
In addition to that, I principally use everyday instruments, like reducing mats, die cutters and double sided mounting tape.
What’s the smartest thing about working with paper as a medium?
Technically there’s a lot you are able to do with paper, from tiny artwork items to very large installations, to animations and extra. I’m in love with its transformational high quality and the vary of completed it gives.
Conceptually, I like the concept that everybody of us touches paper each single day, name it a receipt, a serviette of a clean web page, and all of us have the chance to deal with that paper as rubbish or as a canvas to create one thing new.
Who’re your favourite paper artists?
Outdoors of PAC, I actually get pleasure from Rogan Brown’s layered items. His artwork items have been an enormous inspiration of my artwork. I prefer to suppose that in the future I’ll attain the complexity ranges of his summary items on my human topographies.
What are you engaged on in the intervening time?
I’m planning a brand new solo present, right here in Costa Rica, so I’m at present engaged on these items in addition to some particular person items for collective exhibitions. Subsequent 12 months I will probably be presenting an set up at Arte Laguna in Venice, so planning for it’s already on the best way! In addition to that, I’m additionally creating some items for the European Union in El Salvador and dealing on some animations to create extra NFTs.
Apparently, I simply can’t sit nonetheless!
Thanks a lot for this interview PAC!
Enormous hugs from Costa Rica.
