ADMIT ONE: SANTA MARIA BULLRING IN LA GLORIA, TX
2011
ink, color pencil and graphite on paper
60 x 40 inches

Complex ideas that separate performer and audience, public and private space, and group and individual behavior are just some of the concepts that show up in Paul Ramírez Jonas’ work. Ramírez Jonas’ recent series of Admit One drawings builds on these notions, using diagrams of stages and performance spaces as meditations on how the individuals that form an audience are part of social phenomenon, full of hierarchies of power, display and discourse. Admit One: Santa Maria Bullring in La Gloria, TX shows the various seating sections of a bullring, and Ramírez Jonas has humorously, or dangerously, perforated the drawing, implying that the piece can be broken apart, transforming it from ‘work on paper’ to ‘paper ticket.’ Ramírez Jonas was born in 1965 and raised in Honduras. His work was featured in the Latin American Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale, and his work is in the public collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Bronx Museum of Art, New York; Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden; and the New Museum, New York, among others.

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