Dom et Jean Paul RUIZ
Biography
Dom and Jean Paul Ruiz have worked together for 40 years on the theme of landscape. They seek, through different media (installations, photography, video, painting, artist’s books, drawings and prints), to sublimate nature and landscapes. It is a way for them to pay homage to the heritage, to the flora, to the ethnic diversity of the territories.
D JP Ruiz live in the landscape. They reflect on the relationships between human beings, their activities and their environment.
Plastic artists, D JP Ruiz create and propose a work gravitating around the notions of perception of the territory that they call “Geotopoet(h)ique”.
The reading of the landscape, at a given moment of space and time, changes in nature according to the person who looks at it. Depending on the point of view adopted, we speak of individual perceptions or collective perceptions, of nature or society, of aesthetic contemplation or territorial control, of psychology or politics.
Aware of these different points of view, they examine the landscape in order to identify its attributes. Then they use the collected elements as a “material” to recreate a unitary image.
This is the definition of “Geotopoet(h)ique”. Under this theme, which has become the central axis of their artistic approach, a panel of visual proposals is revealed, including photography, video, painting, sculpture…
“Passé the first surprise effect, I felt a kind of fascination rather close to the persistence phénomène rétinienne.”Yannick Miloux, November 2017.
“Both artists, écologistes, authors, scientists, the couple has built a sensitive work around the notion of Garden Planétaire.”Sabrina Tarasoff, March 2017.
Universe
Dom and Jean Paul Ruiz propose to share the multiplicity of their glances on the landscape! After having worked on “materials” such as the tree in its material, economic and cultural extension, after having used the vegetable garden and its production in order to experiment its functioning, going so far as to make it the material of painting, they experiment the landscape territory as a whole. Their work on landscape was born from reflections during their numerous travels in France and abroad, the landscape is, for them, the result of the trace of man.
Man transforms the landscape!
Their art builds a “landscape” of ecology by making visible and sensitive i.e. by presenting and not by representing what nature alone does not show.
Publishing
2009 _”Oh what a beautiful denial that the flow of water! “installation ” cueillette de roée ” with musical composition by Cédric Peyronnet, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac (19)
2009 _ Geotopoet(h)ique des départements du Limousin, three simultaneous video projections, Galerie ” L’Oeil Ecoute “, Limoges-Solignac (87)
2008 _ ” Ça se mange des yeux “, Paintings of vegetables, Saint Savinien church, Melle (79)
2008 _ ” L’eau dans tous ses états “, organized by the ” Récréasciences ” Association, Cueillette de résée, installation, toiles de peintures de rosée, Pavillon du Verdurier, Limoges (19)
2008 _ ” Histoire d’Eaux – Histoire d’Art “, 3rd environmental art festival, Source de rosée, sculpture, Gréoux-les-Bains (04)
Printmaking
The technique used on these engravings is that of linocut on paper. Each work is the result of a long work aimed at giving a very particular intensity and depth to the landscape presented.
This technique also gives the viewer real motivation to scrutinize the multiple colorful details enclaved in this black mesh that seems, in the first place, to block the vision.
Photography
Dom and Jean Paul wish, through their clichés, to sublimate landscapes by highlighting nature and its diversity.
They use this medium to enhance the existing and thus arouse in the viewer a feeling of powerlessness in the face of the intensity of our environment.
Painting
Through the representation of the landscape, the dew, the vegetable garden or pollution, Jean Paul seeks to highlight the relationship between man and his environment and the consequences of life.
Painting then offers a vast panel of possible representation that the artist explores.
Residencies
2015/2016 _ Residence in Niger as part of COP21, invitation by the Centre culturel Franco-Nigérien de Niamey: “geotopoét(h)ique de la capitale”: photographs. Work with Nigerian artists, conferences.
2011 _ Geotopoet(h)ique de l’arbre, photographic residence, Les Treize Arches, Brive (19)
2008 _ Geotopoetic of the Auxois-Morvan country, photos, installations, paintings, video with a musical cartography by Cédric Peyronnet, sound sculptor. Commissioned by the General Council of the Côte d’Or (21)
2008 _ Geotopoet(h)ique du paysage de la Haute-Vienne, photos, video, artist’s book. Residence, commissioned by the Limousin Regional Council (87)
2008 _ Geotopoet(h)ique of the city of Valenciennes, photos, video, artist’s book. Residence, commissioned by the City of Valenciennes, supported by the DRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais (59)
2007 _ Geotopoet(h)ique du paysage de la Creuse, photos, video, artist’s book. residence, commissioned by the Limousin Regional Council and the Creuse General Council (23)
2006 _ Geotopoet(h)ique du paysage de la Corrèze, photos, video, artist’s book. Residence, commissioned by the Limousin Regional Council and the Corrèze General Council (19).
2005 _ Geotopoet(h)ique of the Bellevue district, slide show made from photographs of the district (architecture, trees, plants) and the 120 portraits of the inhabitants, creation of a unique book piece, interventions, exhibition and residence: highlighting the richness of the diversity of ethnic (for humans) and geographical (for flora) origins of the district. Residence supported by DRAC Pays-de-la-Loire, Saint-Herblain (44)
2005 _ Geotopoetic of the Sinai landscape territory, photo report, twelve painted canvases, collection of earth and coloured sands. Residence in the Sinai desert and in Cairo, mandate by the French Cultural Centre of Cairo, French Embassy in Egypt (Egypt)
2005 _ Geotopoet(h)ique of the city of Roubaix, work on the city’s wastelands, inventory of the city’s flora and highlighting its diversity in collaboration with the conservatoire de plantes tinctoriales de la Piscine and industrial wastelands. Residence supported by the DRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Roubaix (59).
2004 _ Within the framework of La Francophonie, production of an artist’s book and work with schoolchildren and student teachers. Residence supported by the General Council and the DRAC of Limousin, French Cultural Centres of Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt).
2001 _ Collection of dew, dew paintings, installation and musical composition around dew, exhibition of the work of the residence “An artist meets another artist”, residence: Jean Paul Ruiz invites Cédric Peyronnet, composer. Residence supported by the Regional Council and the DRAC du Limousin, Appelboom-La-Pommerie, Saint-Setiers (19)
Personal Exhibitions
2017 _ Exhibition of 16 composed photographs taken in Niamey during the residency.
2016 _ Retrospective exhibition of all the work, Niamey, Niger.
2015 _ Arts Court, Tulle: prints.
2012 _ ” Géotopoét(h)ique de l’arbre “, photographs, Les Treize Arches, Brive (19)
2012 _ Around the landscape, photographs, gallery L’Oeil Ecoute, Limoges (87).
2012 _ Photographs, municipal library, Sevran (93).
2012 _ Installation ” cueillette de rosée “, city of Biarritz (64). 2011
2012 _ Geotopoet(h)ique of the Creuse department, photographs, Archives Départementales, Guéret.
2009 _ Geotopoet(h)ique du pays de l’Auxois-Morvan, exhibition of work in residence.
2008 _ Geotopoet(h)ique of the city of Valenciennes, photos, video, artist’s book. Exhibition of work in residence, City of Valenciennes (56)
2007 _ Geotopoét(h)ique du quartier Bellevue, installation of two photo slideshows and three videos, with the musical work of Cédric Peyronnet, sound topology of the Bellevue neighbourhood, exhibition of the work of the 2005 residence, Centre d’art Contemporain La Carrière Onyx, Saint-Herblain (44)
2007 _ Traces of dew, installation and canvases of dew paintings with musical composition by Cédric Peyronnet, Centre Culturel l’Odyssée, Ville de Dreux (28)
2006 _ La force de la nature, retrospective (books and paintings) and lectures on the plastic approach, Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva (Switzerland)
2005 _ Lands of Egypt, paintings and photographs of the Sinai Desert, travelling exhibition in Cairo, Alexandria, and Port Said (Egypt)
2005 _ Geotopoet(h)ique de la ville de Roubaix, exhibition: inventory of the city’s flora and highlighting its diversity: photographs, artist’s book.
Collective Exhibitions
2009 _“Oh what a beautiful denial that the flow of water! “installation ” cueillette de roée ” with musical composition by Cédric Peyronnet, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac (19)
2009 _ Geotopoet(h)ique des départements du Limousin, three simultaneous video projections, Galerie ” L’Oeil Ecoute “, Limoges-Solignac (87)
2008 _ ” Ça se mange des yeux “, Paintings of vegetables, Saint Savinien church, Melle (79)
2008 _ ” L’eau dans tous ses états “, organized by the ” Récréasciences ” Association, Cueillette de résée, installation, toiles de peintures de rosée, Pavillon du Verdurier, Limoges (19)
2008 _ ” Histoire d’Eaux – Histoire d’Art “, 3rd environmental art festival, Source de rosée, sculpture, Gréoux-les-Bains (04)