10 Questions with Ramón González Palazón
Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine ISSUE17 | Featured Artist
Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Valencia and furthered his studies at the Kunstakademie München under the mentorship of Gunther Förg and the University Institute of Art Armando Reverón. He has exhibited in venues such as the Museum de Arte Tomás y Valiente in Madrid, the Fundación Gabarrón in New York, the Museum Casa Pintada in Murcia, and the AP1 Space at ArtNueve Gallery. Recognized with the First Prize for Visual Arts by MurciaJoven, he has participated in international fairs like ARCOmadrid and CIRCA in Puerto Rico. His work has been selected for festivals such as PROYECTOR, FIVA (Buenos Aires), and CUVO (Madrid), as well as spaces like the Parraga Center in Murcia and the Etopia Center in Zaragoza. He has exhibited in Shanghai and received various grants, including the Cinematographic Production Grant from the City of Murcia. His work is part of collections such as the MAC of Puerto Rico and the International Biennale of Shandong in China.
Ramón González Palazón - Portrait
ARTIST STATEMENT
The work of Ramón González Palazón focuses on perceptual and sensory creation, explored through installation, drawing, painting, video art, sculpture, and film. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements, connecting them to the human body as an existential and identity commitment. His work addresses the transition from the ephemeral to the material, the temporal to the timeless, and the figurative to the abstract, raising questions about the transience of the human experience. Ramón González Palazón invites the viewer to experience new sensations, offering a reflection that transcends the visual and the sensory, proposing an immersion into a constant search to uncover the hidden layers of perception, challenging the limits of form, time, and identity.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone 1 (Installation 1), Limestone, pigment, resin, cement, oil paint, neon light, acrylic, canvas, and digital projection, Variable dimensions, 2022 © Ramón González Palazón
Like A Breath Of Blue Breeze Upon The Stone | Project Statement
The project, presented in 2022 at AP1 Artnueve Gallery, was curated by Teresa Calbo and selected as part of the Artistic Creation Projects subsidized by the Institute of Cultures and Arts of the Region of Murcia (ICA). It unfolds as a poetic exploration between matter and light, nature and identity. Through interventions such as projecting looping drawings onto stones, painting them in vivid colors, or depicting minimal lines on paper, the project reflects on art's ability to transform the inert into language and to inscribe the ephemeral into the permanence of matter.
This dialogue between materials, space, and the viewer invites contemplation of nature not as a passive backdrop but as a living, dynamic, and ever-changing entity interacting with human actions. The work, imbued with a subtle connection to processes of transformation and affectation, maps a sensory journey that bridges the tangible with the conceptual, highlighting the creative power of the simplest and most essential gestures.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone 1, 2022 © Ramón González Palazón
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INTERVIEW
Please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us how you developed into the artist you are today. Are there any pivotal moments or figures that particularly helped you in your development as an artist?
My name is Ramón González Palazón, and my artistic practice focuses on the perceptual and sensory, exploring light, time, matter, and bodies through installations, drawing, painting, video art, sculpture, and cinema. I understand my quest as a new way of transforming spaces and offering experiences that invite reflection on the ephemeral and the mutable. This path has not been linear but a continuous process of change. Since childhood, I have been fascinated by how light interacts with objects, creating fleeting shadows and reflections. This fascination has grown and evolved into a language to capture these fleeting moments. Throughout my career, I have exhibited in various contexts and collaborated with artists and spaces, but today, we focus on this current project. The collaboration with Teresa Calbo and the support of AP1 Galería Artnueve have been essential to this project, Like a Breeze of Blue over the Stone. Here, the ephemeral and the tangible intertwine, inviting us to inhabit the moment. Each work is an act of transmutation, revealing change as the only constant.
Your artistic path spans various disciplines, from painting, drawing, and installation to filmmaking and video art. How did this multidisciplinary approach develop, and what drives you to explore such diverse mediums?
My multidisciplinary approach arises from the need to capture the intangible from different perspectives. Even before my academic training, I was inclined to explore the unknown and transform my environment, guided by an almost alchemical intuition. Over time, this curiosity has been refined, but the same essence has remained. Each idea finds its form of expression: drawing and painting explore the permanence of the line, while video art and cinema play with the ephemeral. Installation, in turn, allows for immersive experiences where the viewer becomes an active part of the work. This convergence of media reflects my interest in transformation and transience, blurring the boundaries between disciplines and opening space for limitless sensory exploration.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone 1, 2022 © Ramón González Palazón
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone (private collection), Limestone, pigment, resin, glass 2022 © Ramón González Palazón
Your work often challenges sensory perceptions and reinterprets physical spaces. Can you share how you conceptualize these transformations and their connection to human identity?
In my artistic practice, I aim for each intervention to challenge the familiar, inviting the viewer to discover new layers of meaning and experience the environment in a renewed way. These alterations are not merely aesthetic modifications; they are deeply connected to human identity, proposing a reflection on our relationship with factors such as time, the body, and matter. By modifying the space, I propose a pause that suggests identity is fluid and always in transformation. In this sense, each alteration of the environment acts as a metaphor for our capacity for change, a process in which the viewer plays a fundamental role, completing the message through their experience. I do not seek to provide definitive answers, as the artistic journey is, in itself, uncertain. I do not know where it is going or where it emerges from, and it is precisely this uncertainty that allows each work to be constructed openly and in constant evolution.
Video art and interactive installations are integral to your practice. How do you balance technological innovation with the sensory and conceptual depth of your projects?
My practice merges technology and sensations, where both reinforce each other. In an increasingly technological world, I seek to use this tool to explore the ephemeral and the intangible, inviting the viewer to become an active part of the work.Interactive installations and video art open space for reflecting on time, space, and perception. At the same time, they connect me with the cyclical nature of humanity, reminding us of our constant quest for adaptation and transformation. Thus, technology and nature intertwine, reflecting our fluid and ever-changing identity.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone 3 (Diptych), Acrylic on canvas, 100x81 cm, 2022 © Ramón González Palazón
The transition between ephemeral and timeless elements is another recurring theme in your work. How do you navigate and articulate this dichotomy in your projects?
The transition between the ephemeral and the timeless guides my work, not as a clash but as a continuous dialogue between the transient and the persistent—a threshold, a space between what was and what is to come. I use light, shadow, and movement to reflect this flow between what disappears and what endures, like a stone column that, though broken, retains its essence. In each fissure lies an opportunity for transformation, growth, and reinvention. Thus, my work invites reflection on the fragility of existence and the transformative power of fleeting moments that redefine us and connect us with time.
The project Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Upon the Stone beautifully integrates light, matter, and identity. Could you elaborate on the inspiration behind this project and how it evolved during the creative process?
In my explorations with the gallery and curatorial work, intuition guided the process, tracing points of connection where transmutation reflects on objects or bodies, exploring an ideal of almost sacred immanence. Light, ephemeral and ethereal, captures the fleeting and simultaneously projects it, while stone, solid and constant, symbolizes the timeless. For instance, one of the key pieces of the installation was the practice of unearthing a stone that had been hidden for centuries—an act that symbolizes rescuing the forgotten and connecting the past with the present. Transforming it with new meaning and color, such as deep blue, grants it renewed vitality. This transformation is complemented by a projection: an animation that generates organic elements in a loop, attempting to return that past to the present or connect both times. All this is inspired by my travels to natural and urban spaces, where human intervention blends with nature, serving as the source that drives my research and works.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone, Pigment on paper, 2022-1 © Ramón González Palazón
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone, Pigment on paper, 2022-1 © Ramón González Palazón
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone, Pigment on paper, 2022-1 © Ramón González Palazón
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone, Pigment on paper, 2022-1 © Ramón González Palazón
Nature plays a pivotal role in your work, not just as a subject but as a dynamic participant. How do you approach nature in your art, and how do you hope viewers interpret this relationship?
In my work, nature is not merely a subject but an essential and active entity intertwined with artistic elements: light, time, and matter. My proposal, which I call Lucid Transmutation, arises from the deep interaction between bodies and their natural surroundings, where nature is not merely an object of observation but a vital participant in the sensory and conceptual transformation of the pieces.
This approach originates from an intimate connection with natural elements: soil, stones, air, and the changing light of the day. Each material I use carries an inherent memory that I seek to rescue and transfigure. In this process, the natural and the artistic merge, transform, and coexist in a continuous flow. Lucid Transmutation proposes a new way of perceiving bodies, not as static entities but as something fluid, in constant change, traversed by the transience between the permanent and the ephemeral.
Having exhibited internationally and received several awards, how do these achievements shape your creative process or provide validation for your artistic explorations?
Far from seeking external approval, these achievements act as points of connection with a broader audience, offering an opportunity for my artistic explorations to resonate more deeply. Exhibiting internationally and receiving awards have been valuable experiences that, rather than validating my work, have enriched my creative process.
Like a Breath of Blue Breeze Over the Stone 4 (Diptych), Oil on canvas, 100x74 cm, 2021-22 © Ramón González Palazón
Your work has been shown in various cultural contexts, from Shanghai to Puerto Rico. How do these diverse environments influence your creative output and the reception of your art?
Exhibiting my work in places like Shanghai, Puerto Rico, and New York has led me to explore new dimensions of my practice. Each cultural context offers a unique energy field that transforms how I work with light, matter, and time. These experiences challenge me to expand my artistic language and engage in dialogue with diverse realities—a bridge between cultures or a space where the ephemeral and the tangible acquire new meanings.
As an artist constantly questioning perception, space, and identity, where do you see your practice heading in the coming years? Are there particular themes or mediums you’re eager to explore further?
I believe my quest is anchored in the natural, an essential territory always ready to be rediscovered. While technology expands my vision and opens unexplored possibilities, it never replaces the primal essence of natural elements. I maintain a tension between the natural and the technological—a threshold space where both worlds intersect. In this encounter, each work becomes an open door, an unfinished chapter inviting constant rediscovery and new possibilities of being.
