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 targeted 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 house 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 undertaking Temporal, and the design house Kamalio, each situated in San José.
How lengthy have you ever been working with paper?
I started in 2014, right now 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 convey some three dimensionality to topographic illustrations, enjoying 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” product of layers of paper.
Extra lately I started to create artwork installations the place colourful strips of paper dangle, enjoying with the transformational high quality of paper. The idea behind these installations is that we are able to help one another in the identical means one strips holds the subsequent one. Collectively means we are able to attain greater and farther than we might by ourselves.
The place do you discover inspiration?
Life typically impressed me. The way in which 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 primary matter in my artwork items.
I consider that every certainly one of us has the best to be who we wish to be, to like who we wish to love, and to attain 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 – Taking part in with topography is how all the things started for me. That is the technical foundation of my work.
Private – Since a lot of my items come from matters concerning 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 – Lately I used to be instructed that I’m a fairly stressed artist, within the which means that I’m always trying to create one thing I haven’t completed earlier than. Extra lately I started to work with NFTs, and this led me to discovered a undertaking known as Underscores with 6 gifted minds, the place we assist artists and corporations to develop their tasks into the Metaverse or Web3.
What are your favourite papers to work with?
Some years in the past I grew to become associates with a Costa Rican paper gallery known as Papesa, they grew to become large allies of my artwork they usually led me to Favini Papers which is an Italian model of creative papers.
I principally use their strains known as Prisma, Twist and lots of of their metallic papers, and I’m significantly fascinated by working future items with their felt papers, I actually like their “furry” texture.
What software might you not reside with out?
I design the layers of most of my items digitally, so I might say that the great ‘ole Adobe Illustrator is a software I couldn’t reside with out. I’ve labored 100% manually earlier than, however now I favor to make use of the instruments that my profession taught me.
Moreover that, I principally use day after day instruments, like chopping mats, die cutters and double sided mounting tape.
What’s the neatest thing about working with paper as a medium?
Technically there may be a lot you are able to do with paper, from tiny artwork items to large installations, to animations and extra. I’m in love with its transformational high quality and the vary of completed it affords.
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 take pleasure in Rogan Brown’s layered items. His artwork items have been an enormous inspiration of my artwork. I prefer to suppose that at some point I’ll attain the complexity ranges of his summary items on my human topographies.
What are you engaged on in the mean time?
I’m planning a brand new solo present, right here in Costa Rica, so I’m presently engaged on these items in addition to some particular person items for collective exhibitions. Subsequent 12 months I might be presenting an set up at Arte Laguna in Venice, so planning for it’s already on the way in which! Moreover 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!
Large hugs from Costa Rica.
