Jon Gorospe

Jon Gorospe - De Magnete

Biografía del Artista: Jon Gorospe (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1986) se centra en la representación del paisaje antropizado, desarrollando varios cuerpos de trabajo en la actualidad. Como uno de los autores de la nueva ola de fotografía europea, Jon Gorospe ha sido reconocido por varias instituciones públicas y privadas como el Guggenheim Museum (EEUU y España), Sasakawa Foundation (Escandinavia y Japón), Futures Photography (Programa Europeo de Cultura) y la Fundación Ankaria (España). Jon combina sus procesos de creación artística con el estudio y la comprensión de la imagen desde un punto de vista teórico, colaborando en diferentes proyectos como foto-editor, comisariando festivales y exposiciones y participando en debates y publicaciones.

 

In De Magnete, Jon Gorospe explores the symbolic and transcendental tradition of landscape to bring it up to date and to speak from that angle. Not only is landscape present in his images as a subject, but also – and above all – as an embracing space that refers constantly to vastness: the vastness of what is huge and the vastness of our inner self. The inner reality that Gorospe aims at and which he unfolds in this series is at once enigmatic and tumultuous. He has used a particular idea of the sacred on more than one occasion in order to refer to it, this being the assembly of beauty and terror (Rilke) or of beauty and its revelations (the epiphanies it provokes). In order to do this, Gorospe turns to a series of black and white landscapes alternating several colour photographs in which the only thing we can distinguish are transitions between colours. These gradients have a twofold function. On one hand, just like a map’s legend, they are the key to the series: they provide us with the coordinates that guide its interpretation. On the other hand, they also represent something ethereal and formless, a beyond, a behind. Another element with a strategic role is present in the landscape images: scale, or rather the absence of it, also understood as its dissolution from the perspective of fractal geometry. That which is big and that which is small are intertwined and indistinct but equally vertigi- nous, equally out of reach.