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Ramón Masats: Unveiling Masats

Past exhibition
12 September 2024 - 30 January 2025
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Ramón Masats, Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1960.

Ramón Masats Spanish, 17/03/1931-4/03/2024

Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1960.
Series: 1953-65 - Iconic
Gelatin Silver Print.
Printed Later.
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Edition of 15
Image: 24.5 x 37.5 cm / 9 5/8 x 14 3/4 in
Paper: 30 x 40 cm / 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
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Edition of 5
Image: 37.5 x 56.5 cm / 14 3/4 x 22 1/4 in
Paper: 50 x 60 cm / 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in
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Ramón Masats Estate dry stamp, signed and authenticated by Sonia Masats with title and edition number in pencil on label affixed to print verso.
A figure bends at the edge of a whitewashed wall, carefully tracing a dark line along the ground. The gesture is simple, almost domestic, yet Masats turns it into something...
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A figure bends at the edge of a whitewashed wall, carefully tracing a dark line along the ground. The gesture is simple, almost domestic, yet Masats turns it into something precise and quietly theatrical.

The photograph is built from very few elements: the blank wall, the dusty floor, the corner cutting sharply through the image, the black silhouette of the body, and the line itself, moving across the surface like a drawing. Nothing feels arranged, but everything is exact. The eye follows the mark from left to right until it reaches the hand that is making it.

Masats had a rare ability to find visual intelligence in everyday Spain: in gestures, rituals, games, shadows, and small acts of order. Here, the scene becomes both documentary and abstract. The wall is real, the action is real, but the image also reads as a composition of geometry, contrast, and movement.

In Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, the ordinary becomes quietly enigmatic. A modest action, seen with attention, becomes a photograph about space, line, and the strange poetry of daily life.

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