Julio Sarramián

Spanish

b. 1981

Works

"My work revolves around the idea of landscape and other related concepts, and how we perceive, define and represent them."

Spanish born and currently based in Madrid, Julio Sarramián is an abstract painter creating mesmerising landscapes through the use of oil on linen. Currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Madrid, Julio additionally holds a degree in Philosophy and Bachelor of Fine Arts. The artist has exhibited across Spain and Internationally across the globe. Furthermore, Julio holds awards from institutions such as Ministry of Culture of Sapin, Madrid City Council, BMW Group and many more.

The artist explores the idea of landscape through the use of intense and bold colours, portrayed in delicate gradients, questioning how we perceive, define and represent them. Studying all angles around the idea of landscapes – philosophical, political, and socioeconomic – Julio focuses on the hold technology has on our society. He seeks to contribute a new way of looking at landscapes, altering the way we reflect on them and ultimately explore new horizons.

His new collection of work, displayed for the first time with Maddox Gallery, investigates the role of technological visual elements in landscapes. Julio pursues the idea of a rupture in landscape, creating a failure or error: a glitch. He thus creates a landscape that is deformed, giving way to an image where errors from the digital world prevail.

ARTIST STATEMENT

"I have looked at them from the different perspectives that they cover and transform – philosophical, science, political or social. Focusing fundamentally on the technological context of today’s society, I seek to contribute with a new way of looking at landscapes that allows us to reflect, build new spaces; explore new horizons.

Through painting, drawing, photography or installation, I have generated different discourses that reveal the relationship between man and his surrounding environment. I analyze the conceptual transformations of landscape and its cultural construction, as a means to exploring its new representations. It is a path that allows me to understand tradition and the future from the emancipatory perspective of seeing reality in a different way. From the standpoint of an explorer, I investigate the changes that occur around us in order to understand and generate new points of view."

THE GLITCHLAND SERIES

The Glitchland project is a pictorial investigation that reinterprets the landscape and its essential characteristics from visual elements related to the digital world and technology. A rupture of the concept of landscape is pursued, establishing the idea of glitch (failure or error) as the conceptual basis of the project.

In this way, a disintegration and deformation of the landscape is made possible, to give way to an image where errors, failures and data from the digital world prevail over its traditional representation.

Glitchland approaches the landscape by exploring the limits of the landscape itself.

Julio Sarramián has exhibited individually in cities such as Brussels, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Bilbao, Pontevedra, Salamanca, Vigo and Logroño. Collectively in different countries, such as: Brazil, Belgium, China, Portugal and Spain. He has been awarded by institutions such as: Ministry of Culture of Sapin, VEGAP, Community of Madrid, Madrid City Council, Complutense University of Madrid, City of Culture of Galicia, Provincial Council of Cáceres, Casa de Velázquez, Government of La Rioja, Parliament of La Rioja, City of Logroño, University of Salamanca, Ibercaja Foundation, La Gaceta Foundation, BMW Group, UBE Corporation Europe or Royal Talens Spain.

Exhibitions

Westbourne Grove

Winter Tale

23 November - 31 December 2023

Step into Winter Tale, a captivating group exhibition celebrating the timeless connection between art and literature. On view from 23rd November to 31st December 2023 at Maddox Gallery.

Maddox Street

Summer Daze

21 July - 3 September 2023

Spanning both our Maddox Street and Westbourne Grove galleries in London, the group exhibition reflects on the daily cycle, with each artist capturing an element of a summer’s day through a diverse range of approaches. Exhibiting Artists: Julio Sarramián, Miriam Dema, Brent Estabrook, Moritz Moll, Kean, Michael Slusakowicz, Jessica Brilli, Kate Brinkworth, Graceland and Slim Aarons. On view from 2…