بول راميريز جوناس

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Sobre o artista

Paul Ramirez Jonas nasceu em 1965, em Honduras. Vive e trabalha em Nova York, Estados Unidos. Participou da 53ª Bienal de Veneza, Itália (2009); da 6ª Bienal de Xangai, China (2006); da 28ª Bienal de São Paulo (2008) e da 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre (2009), ambas no Brasil. Exposições coletivas recentes de que participou incluem: Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, em El Museo del Barrio (2012) e An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet (2011), ambas em Nova York, Estados Unidos; Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, no Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, em Gateshead, Reino Unido (2010); e The Quick and the Dead, no Walker Art Center, em Minneapolis, Estados Unidos (2009). Suas mais recentes mostras individuais são: Publicar, na Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil (2011); Key to the City, Creative Time (2010) e Alexander Gray Associates (2009), ambas em Nova York, Estados Unidos. Suas obras fazem parte de coleções como as de: Blanton Museum, em Austin; Bronx Museum, New Museum e Albright-Knox Art Gallery, todos em Nova York, Estados Unidos; Malmö Konstmuseum, em Malmö, Suécia; e Itaú Cultural, em São Paulo, Brasil.
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source: artsynet

In his mixed-media works and public projects, Paul Ramírez Jonas creates community, or, at least, the potential for it. Since the 1990s, he has been pursuing a definition of art as the relationship between artist, viewer, and artwork. Many of his works actively invite viewer participation—such as by making a wish or leaving a note. For Ramírez Jonas, the potential to participate is crucial, as he describes: “I want the choice to be important, to be felt.” His New York-based Key to the City project (2010) exemplifies the community spirit of his work, aptly and humorously reflected in its list of components: “people, 24,000 keys, 24 sites, 155 collaborators, and mayor.” Whimsical and sincere, this work invited people to pick up a key and open locks throughout the city, engaging the public in a collective exchange and exploration.