The exhibition a cloudy day presents a selection of video works by Calixto Ramirez Correa (b. 1980, Reynosa, MX) in the Passage, an exhibition space of the artist residency Eau&Gaz in Appiano/Eppan Italy.

Calixto Ramirez Correa’s works emerge from a sensitive practice situated in the everyday. He shows us how acting in relation to our surroundings freed from patterns directed by functionality can generate poetic actions that always contain a substantial political dimension. He confronts us with a body that is inevitably reacting spontaneously to external forces for an end that is uncertain and unstable, but that in this reaction creates frictions, counsciouly opening up windows of emotional subjectivity. Through this metaphorically embracing attitude towards the environment the artist reconfigures the value of structures and objects that have a preconceived meaning while reaffirming the importance of sensitivity and ultimately, experience.

Ramirez Correa invites us to take part in a view of art that is inseparable from the daily. A practice that is dematerialized but concrete, that blends in between, that creates statements with minimum gestures, that explores surfaces and objects in a continuous interplay. In his art, a cloudy day can generate a carnival for spiders, a fountain can become a surrealist stage and a pile of leaves might be the perfect place to hide.

Text by Maximilian Pellizzari

The exhibition a cloudy day presents a selection of video works by Calixto Ramirez Correa (b. 1980, Reynosa, MX) in the Passage, an exhibition space of the artist residency Eau&Gaz in Appiano/Eppan Italy.

Calixto Ramirez Correa’s works emerge from a sensitive practice situated in the everyday. He shows us how acting in relation to our surroundings freed from patterns directed by functionality can generate poetic actions that always contain a substantial political dimension. He confronts us with a body that is inevitably reacting spontaneously to external forces for an end that is uncertain and unstable, but that in this reaction creates frictions, counsciouly opening up windows of emotional subjectivity. Through this metaphorically embracing attitude towards the environment the artist reconfigures the value of structures and objects that have a preconceived meaning while reaffirming the importance of sensitivity and ultimately, experience.

Ramirez Correa invites us to take part in a view of art that is inseparable from the daily. A practice that is dematerialized but concrete, that blends in between, that creates statements with minimum gestures, that explores surfaces and objects in a continuous interplay. In his art, a cloudy day can generate a carnival for spiders, a fountain can become a surrealist stage and a pile of leaves might be the perfect place to hide.

Text by Maximilian Pellizzari