{"id":481,"date":"2025-07-11T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:06:07","slug":"y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Y"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u03a5. 2019 Instalaci\u00f3n escult\u00f3rica. Espuma de poliuretano.<\/p>\n

Sculptural installation Polyurethane foam.<\/p>\n

Medidas variables (aprox. Di\u00e1metro de 55,5 cm. altura 550 cm.)<\/p>\n

Variable measures<\/p>\n

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…\u00bbY\u00bb, se me \u00abaparece\u00bb como una inquietante y celestial \u00abAscensi\u00f3n\u00bb: ya sabemos que la explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s \u00abm\u00edstica\u00bb no tiene por qu\u00e9 ser la aut\u00e9ntica. Y est\u00e1 muy bien que as\u00ed sea. Dig\u00e1moslo de otra manera: la exposici\u00f3n actual de Ram\u00f3n Mateos es una bella y rara exhibici\u00f3n de una no menos hermosa \u00ab\u00e9tica de las formas\u00bb…<\/p>\n

… \u00abY\u00bb \u00abappears\u00bb to me as a disturbing and heavenly \u00abAscension\u00bb: we already know the most \u00abmystical\u00bb explanation does not have to be the authentic one. And it is a good thing that it is so. Let’s put it another way: Ram\u00f3n Mateos’ current exhibition is a beautiful and rare exhibition of a no less beautiful \u00abethic of forms…<\/p>\n

Luis Francisco P\u00e9rez, Facebook, 22.09.2019 (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/luisfrancisco.perezredondo\/posts\/2541617652562579<\/p>\n

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ENGLISH BELOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La navaja de Ockham fue concebida a principios del siglo XIV por Guillermo de Ockham (1280-1349) fil\u00f3sofo positivista y fraile. Se trata de un principio metodol\u00f3gico y filos\u00f3fico que se sigue utilizando hoy para la creaci\u00f3n de modelos te\u00f3ricos o para la formulaci\u00f3n de soluciones a determinadas situaciones: En igualdad de condiciones, la explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s sencilla suele ser la m\u00e1s probable. En m\u00e1s situaciones de las que deber\u00edamos asumir, implica que ante dos teor\u00edas que aportan soluciones diferentes a un mismo problema, si se aplica este principio, se asumir\u00eda que la m\u00e1s sencilla es la correcta. A pesar de que como el propio fil\u00f3sofo concluy\u00f3: la explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s simple es la m\u00e1s probable, no es necesariamente la verdadera. Precisamente este peque\u00f1o este matiz es el que se plantea en el trabajo La navaja de Ockham, que Ram\u00f3n Mateos presenta en la primera exposici\u00f3n individual en Galer\u00eda Freijo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las piezas que componen esta muestra se han hecho a partir de moldes sacados de los cuerpos de distintas personas que por diversas circunstancias viven en la calle, sin recursos, ni hogar, a los que el sistema ha expulsado de sus registros y conocemos ahora como personas sin hogar, sintecho, homeless, excluidos sociales. En estos moldes se registra con precisi\u00f3n todos los detalles: la piel, las heridas, el vello, las formas. Sin embargo, tambi\u00e9n todo lo que las personas ten\u00edan en su piel ha sido arrastrado a esos moldes de los que posteriormente se ha realizado una serie de vaciados en diversos materiales de partes concretas de sus cuerpos: un brazo, las dos piernas y la espalda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Con estos elementos se han creado tres piezas: X, Y y Z, que como los tres ejes de coordenadas tridimensionales nos llevan a un soporte constructivo b\u00e1sico que podr\u00edan operar como cada uno de estos ejes. As\u00ed X es un suelo, Y un pilar y Z un pasamanos o barandilla que conforman los elementos b\u00e1sicos de sustentaci\u00f3n de cualquier construcci\u00f3n elemental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El papel que desempe\u00f1amos dentro de la sociedad en la que vivimos viene determinado por actitudes que asumimos constantemente, sin plantearnos como hemos construido los pelda\u00f1os sobre los que caminamos, de qu\u00e9 materia est\u00e1 hecho el suelo que pisamos, qu\u00e9 parte del esfuerzo ajeno, del sudor o del sufrimiento de otro, forma parte de nuestro bienestar. Sabemos, aunque preferimos no recordarlo, que la base del capitalismo cl\u00e1sico, no parte del intercambio de mercanc\u00edas sino de la fuerza de trabajo y aunque en tiempos del capitalismo financiero, esto pueda parecer que ha quedado atr\u00e1s, la lucha de clases sigue siendo un ejercicio de violencia sutil o invisible donde ese pelda\u00f1o, ese suelo, siempre es el otro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No existen respuestas sencillas a problemas complejos, aunque el adelgazamiento del discurso al que nos hemos acostumbrado desde que hemos dejado la transmisi\u00f3n del conocimiento y la informaci\u00f3n en manos de los media nos lleve a pensar constantemente que as\u00ed es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Este trabajo tambi\u00e9n busca plantear cuestiones estrechamente ligadas a la creaci\u00f3n contempor\u00e1nea, como si es posible plantear desde el lenguaje art\u00edstico una cuesti\u00f3n social o pol\u00edticamente compleja; si una obra implantada en el contexto del arte puede relacionarse con otras en este entorno y al mismo tiempo traspasar ese \u00e1mbito e cuestionarnos como individuos, haciendo tambalear nuestros valores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ockham’s Razor was devised at the beginning of the 14th century by William of Ockham (1280-1349) who was a friar and a positivist philosopher. A methodological and philosophical principle, it is still used today to build theoretical models and seek solutions to specific situations: under similar conditions, the simplest explanation tends to be the most probable. In most situations we should make assumptions, meaning that when facing two theories providing different solutions to the same problem, if we apply this principle, then we assume that the simplest solution is correct. And yet the philosopher himself concluded that: the simplest explanation is the most probable, but not necessarily true. Ram\u00f3n Mateos’ first solo show at the Freijo Gallery, Ockham’s Razor, revolves around the aforesaid discrepancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces in this exhibition are casts made from moulds taken of different people who for a variety of circumstances are living on the street, without means and without a home, people that society has expunged from its registers and who we call the homeless, the socially excluded. These moulds accurately record every single detail of skin, scars, hair and contours. Accordingly, everything those people had on their skins has been caught in the moulds and from them, subsequently, a set of casts of specific body parts-an arm, both legs and a back- has been produced in several different media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elements have been used to generate three pieces: X, Y and Z. These act in the manner of three-dimensional coordinates to create a basic building structure that can be operated like these axes. Accordingly, X is a floor, Y a column and Z a handrail or banister – the basic elements of support of any rudimentary building structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role we play in the society we live in is determined by attitudes we constantly assume, never stopping to ask ourselves how the steps on which we walk were built, what material the floor we walk on is made of, what amount of outside effort, sweat and suffering of others goes into to our wellbeing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role we play in the society we live in is determined by attitudes we constantly assume, never stopping to ask ourselves how the steps on which we walk were built, what material the floor we walk on is made of, what amount of outside effort, sweat and suffering of others goes into to our wellbeing. We know, although we prefer not to remember it, that the basis of classical capitalism is not the exchange of goods but the labor power, and although in times of financial capitalism this may seem outdated, class struggle continues to be an exercise in subtle or invisible violence where that rung, that foundation, is always the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no simple answers to complex problems, even though the simplification or thinning of discourse to which we have become accustomed since we delegated the transmission of knowledge and information to the media makes us constantly believe this to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work also seeks to raise questions closely linked to contemporary creation, such as whether it is possible to pose a socially or politically complex issue through artistic language; whether a work situated within the context of art can relate to others in this environment and at the same time transcend that sphere and question us as individuals and shaking our values. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u03a5. 2019 Instalaci\u00f3n escult\u00f3rica. Espuma de poliuretano. Sculptural installation Polyurethane foam. Medidas variables (aprox. Di\u00e1metro de 55,5 cm. altura 550 cm.) Variable measures   …\u00bbY\u00bb, se me \u00abaparece\u00bb como una inquietante y celestial \u00abAscensi\u00f3n\u00bb: ya sabemos que la explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s \u00abm\u00edstica\u00bb no tiene por qu\u00e9 ser la aut\u00e9ntica. Y est\u00e1 muy bien que as\u00ed sea. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}