Colorama Paradise
Manuel Fernández
Málaga
1977
The series explores the relationship between painting and photography to investigate the mechanisms of visual perception.
The frames are part of the work, turning their decorative quality in a functional element for the activation of the parts.
Spectrum gradient color panels in the field of photography that we see in digital editing tools, take three-dimensional physical form by painting the frames, now the color of the image is where we should find the decoration and image that should carry the color comes in black and white.
The photographs were taken in the botanical garden of La Concepcion in Malaga, built around 1855 by the Marquis of Loring.
It is an English style landscape garden, one of the few gardens with subtropical plants that exist in Europe, which housed some of the species that today have become extinct in their original places.
Manuel Fernández is a spanish artist based in Madrid. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.
He investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.
Fernández has several works at the Artbase of Rhizome at the New Museum NYC and has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including The Museum of Moving Image, New York, The Armory Show, New York, PHotoespaña Madrid, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO Madrid, The Photographers Gallery, London, Galerie Verney-Carron, Lyon, Paradise. A space for screen addiction, Marseille, Xpo Gallery, Paris and Super Dakota, Brussels.
Manuel has been one of the jurors of “ERROR 415” Award in New Media organized by ArtSlant in 2013 and has been awarded with the Beep / ARCO New Media Art Prize in 2014. His work have been featured in multiple outlets, including El País, Liberation, Triangulation Blog, I like this art, Dazed Digital, FastCo Blog, Complex Blog, O Fluxo Blog, trend magazine Notodo and Minus Space Blog, among others.
