Exhibitions

‘One morning in late June, I received an email. Sònia Villegas was preparing an exhibition of Ramon Herreros — the first in a long time. Just a few days earlier, I had been at the studio with him, choosing the paintings. A friend and I helped them move the works, listening to why one painting was chosen and another was not. The email was from her. She was asking me to write the text for the exhibition catalogue. My first reaction was surprise, followed by doubt. I mentioned it to Ramon, and he told me that if I felt like doing it, I should. In the more than forty years that Ramon has been exhibiting, no one had ever asked me to write a text. It made sense to me — I am too close to his work and to him. But that was precisely what had led Sònia to think of me. In the end, I accepted.’

With these words, Nuria Vidal, film critic and partner of the Barcelona-born artist, brings Ramon Herreros: La tierra está desierta y vacía (The Earth is deserted and empty) to a close. Since 1982, when the artist began to sketch fluttering movements in figurative art, although he reaffirmed his abstraction with the presentation of El axioma de María at the Maeght Gallery in Barcelona 10 years later, the serenity of strong and courageous women, an absolutely naturalistic touch and dreamlike sensuality have made their way with grace and elegance to the present day.

‘This is an exhibition that brings back to the public the many Ramon Herreros that have existed over the last forty years. Those who know him will recognise him, those who discover him for the first time may never forget him.’