Gallery 2

Icons, Myths, Metaphors

11 - 22 March

Opening night

13 March | 6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm

ARTIST  STATEMENT 

Ramone Villotet is a visual artist whose practice investigates visual phenomenology and the way images are communicated across shifting contexts. Drawing on phenomenological theory and employing camouflage, printmaking, collage, and mixed‑media processes, the Artist examines how viewers encounter visual information and assign meaning to the symbols that shape their daily activities.

For more than 35 years, he has collected and reworked everyday Icons such as arrows, targets, and flowers, building his own personal visual Metaphors that he continuously layers, deconstructs, and reconstructs. These symbols fight to assert their own stories, and the artist deliberately disrupts visual order so the viewer's eye cannot settle on a single image. Each viewer brings their own history, biases, and desires to the act of looking, ensuring that no image ever speaks the same way twice. This tension between the artist’s intent and the viewer’s interpretation, becomes a central force in his work, making every encounter a negotiation of meaning.

Through painting, and mixed‑media experimentation, they challenge the mechanics of looking: the moment an image becomes a sign, the instant recognition and the familiar gives way to interpretation, and the need to create order and  attach meaning, understanding or control to everything we see. The Artist highlights how familiar symbols carry social, historical, cultural significance that evoke individual memories, and how their meanings shift through repetition and reinterpretation. His practice ultimately invites viewers to question the visual systems they rely on and reconsider the subtle subconscious prompts that structure perception in everyday life.

ARTIST  BIOGRAPHY

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