LIGHT PLANES

The series titled Light Planes represents a collection of images stumbled upon while wandering through lost corners of timeless cities; capturing and framing luminous light planes, such as those described by Gustavo Cerati: “Light bodies, running through an open sky, crystals of yellow love.”

 The idea for this collection was born in the innards of the darkroom at FOTOGRABESA, the artist's studio. The action of light, shadow and color reflected on everyday objects are perceived differently through the eyes of those that spend hours under safety lights.  Sensitized to the whims of light, Gonzalo Ortiz seeks to capture those reflections, those stain glassed panes of sunlight. “Hot blazes in a withering cold city. Sparks of life, of magic.” (Victoria Schwab).

 The texture of an old chipped wall is the perfect canvas where actual windows coexist with illusory ones resulting from an opening or closing a shutter or door. The existence is so ephemeral that only the camera can heighten those luminous forms, making their presence as real as the tangible structures on which they are cast.

 Gonzalo Ortiz adopts a more abstract and unorthodox approach in this series. Not only conceptually, but also in his photographic technique. The use of digital color photography helps bring out the ethereal elements of his subject; ideal to sharpen those fleeting glimmers turning them into palpable corporeal beings.

 

Text: Arantxa Royo/Translation : Ani Flys