{"title":"Ricardo Romero","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Artworks from the Artist Ricardo Romero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese works are included in the Territory exhibition at Armazem Das Artes Alcobaca\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition text for the artist is included below: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRICARDO ROMERO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRICARDO ROMERO b. 1981, Evora, Portugal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePortugal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRECONSIDERATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRicardo Romero works across photography, painting, sculpture, installation and public space, shifting between mediums according to what an idea requires. Rather than being defined by a single visual language, his work is connected by a recurring strategy: taking something recognizable and changing the conditions in which we encounter it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA photograph can leave the private scale of an album and occupy the side of a building. A domestic animal can grow to monumental proportions and enter a public square. Through changes in scale, material and context, Ricardo moves images and objects between private and public, intimate and monumental, familiar and unexpected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotography plays an important role in this process. Images of people, particularly children and figures from another time, become part of a shared landscape when enlarged across architecture. Ricardo has also developed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRomerography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a distinctive approach to architectural-scale screen printing. Monumental images are divided into fragments, each requiring its own screen, allowing a process traditionally associated with paper to expand across entire walls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis sculptures approach the same questions from another direction. Familiar animals and human figures, often rendered entirely in white, black or red, are enlarged or placed into unexpected relationships with their surroundings. A cat emerges through the windows and roofline of a building. A dog crosses a historic square. These encounters can be playful, strange or disorienting, but the subjects remain recognizable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Territory is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRECONSIDERATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecognition is often the beginning of Ricardo's work rather than its conclusion. By changing scale, context and even the processes of making, he disrupts our usual relationship with familiar images and objects. The ordinary becomes monumental, the intimate becomes collective, and something we might otherwise pass without notice demands another look.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ricardo-romero-blindness","title":"Ricardo Romero - Blindness","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBLINDENESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003esteel structure, EPS and acrylic resin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e250 x 400 x 120 cm | 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003ecertificate of authenticity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlindness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlindfolded, the sheep follows the flock. It cannot see the path ahead, nor does it question its destination. It moves because the others move, obeying because it has always obeyed. Blindness reflects on wilful blindness, on the comfort of following and the fear of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andenken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67699216482413,"sku":null,"price":20000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0022\/6082\/8269\/files\/blindness_01.png?v=1791756939"},{"product_id":"ricardo-romero-minus-plus","title":"Ricardo Romero - Minus \/ Plus","description":"\u003cp\u003eMinus\/Plus 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAluminium structure with canvas and emulsion, 300 × 200 × 100 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinus\/Plus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA child breastfeeds a lamb. An unusual gesture, somewhere between care and strangeness, that makes us look twice. On one side, the positive image; on the other, its negative. Two sides of the same photograph, two ways of seeing the same reality. Between what is revealed and what remains hidden, the work invites us to reflect on memory, transmission and the role of culture. After all, what we choose to preserve and nurture also determines what we leave to future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andenken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67699218120813,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0022\/6082\/8269\/files\/minus_plus_01.png?v=1791757294"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0022\/6082\/8269\/collections\/blindness_03.png?v=1791756765","url":"https:\/\/andenken.com\/collections\/ricardo-romero-1.oembed","provider":"Andenken","version":"1.0","type":"link"}