Catalog of the exhibition Something, Nothing, Always. Vari Caramés 1980-2021
Sala Canal de Isabel II. Comunidad de Madrid
Curated by Blanca Berlín and Nerea Ubieto
Vari Caramés
“I don’t see myself quite as a photographer, nor as a painter, nor as an artist, nor as anything else.
I’m in between something that entertains me”.
When he was nine, he moved to A Coruña. When he was fifteen, his father, an amateur artist, gave him a totally manual Voiglander camera to photograph his paintings, drawings and iron pieces. Later he uses photography as a crib in his studies of Technical Architecture (which he never finished). He never pretended to make a living from photography but now he cannot live without it, he is interested in turning the ordinary into extraordinary.
He seeks to evoke, suggest and make the spectator dream. A lover of the timeless and the undefined, he learns to achieve effects from defects. He is not interested in fashions and trends. He uses B&W and color indistinctly. He believes that today’s world lacks poetry and that technology should not surpass emotions. He is more intuitive than “intellectual”, and believes that chance is more exciting than certainty.
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Title:
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Vari Caramés 1980–2021. Something, nothing, always |
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Published:
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10/02/2022 |
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Print run:
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400 |
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Photographs:
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Vari Caramés |
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Author:
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Vari Caramés |
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Texts:
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Blanca Berlín Nerea Ubieto Alejandro Castellote Pepe Font de Mora |
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Translations:
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Kate Major Patricia Buxán (Revisión) |
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Concept:
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Vari Caramés Cibrán Rico López Jesús Vázquez Gómez |
| Design: | desescribir |
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Pages:
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174 |
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Size:
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230 x 300 mm |
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Language:
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English / Spanish |
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Production Method:
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Offset (CMYK & 3-Tone) |
| Binding: | Cloth Hardcover + Stamping |
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Typography:
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Mānuka
Founders Grotesk
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Paper:
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Symbol Tatami Ivory 135 g/m² Creator Silk 150 g/m² Terraprint Silk 80 g/m² Pergraphica Natural 120 g/m² Creator Sand 200 g/m² |
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Printer:
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Agencia Gráfica |
| Binder: | Legatoria |
| ISBN: | 978-84-124260-1-4 |
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Notes: |
This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Something, nothing, always. Vari Caramés 1980–2021 ’ held in Sala Canal Isabel II, from February 10, 2022 to April 24, 2022. |