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RONALD VENTURA - Solo Show Opening 16/11/2019

Ronald Ventura: A glitch in the matrix

It has been stated how there is a riot of images in Ronald Ventura’s art. That statement rings much truer in his latest oeuvre which recalls sliding puzzle or even the Cut-Up Technique in literature (championed by the likes of William S. Burroughs and David Bowie). In Ventura’s most recent paintings, you have subjects intruded upon suddenly by astronauts, butterflies or appropriations from classical art renderings of Christian hands, an imitation of Christ. The imagery, although jarring at first, creates its own weird sense of balance, cohesion and harmony.

There is glitch in reality, the artist says. Objects are not actually stable. They are in constant state of flux, although we give in to the illusion that everything is static. An object, he adds, contains everything — from its history to its future. Ventura’s paintings aim to present glimpses of subjects with their simultaneous presences.

We always carry the past with us, he explains. Even the future without even knowing it. The world is ruled by intrusion and collision. Ventura gives an example: one day a person may be quietly riding a bike and all is tranquil in the world, but then suddenly gets hit by a car and everything becomes this confluence of flesh and metal.

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