Artist Profile
Jonas Ranson
Achieved through treatment in both digital conversion and photographic silkscreen technique, Jonas Ranson’s compositions describe imagined algorithmic and structural ‘episodes’. Slyly garish black interstices, a representative veiling and distorting, the print works act as codes that signal an elegant mathematics and geometry that renders not merely objects or visual representations, but dynamic, responsive systems. Using permutations of iconographic and architectural languages, the structures take the form of totemic frieze. The style is characterized by a stripped-down, geometric structure of repetitive forms. There is an instinct for half-tone which attempts to bring balance and unity to the picture surface. This is the chief means of giving solidity to the forms and creating the fictive space. The successive planes, independents circuits which cancel each other out, contradict each other. The work simultaneously constitutes the layers of one and the same physical reality, and the levels of one and the same mental reality, memory and spirit. With a ‘Computery’, architectonic aesthetic, the works can be viewed as a kind of entropy, seen as an emergence in reverse, a procedural approach to decay rather than regeneration. This procedural entropy is used as a means of simulating or stimulating a form of ‘computational’ breakdown. Jonas Ranson is a print graduate of the Royal College of Art, currently living and working in Hackney, East London. Recent exhibitions have include Tableau Vivant, Aquarium Gallery, Bloomsbury 2007, Terra Extremitas Multi Disciplinary Event NDSM–WerfAmsterdam 2008, Impromptu, collaborative groupshow at Schwartz Gallery, Hackney and morerecently Deus Ex Machina, solo show at NO:IDGallery Whitechapel.
