Ramon Aguilella Cueco

Ramon Aguilella Cueco , as artist only: Ramon (born March 6, 1937 in Uzerche , France ; lives and works in Paris ) is a French contemporary painter , graphic artist and photographer and representative of his own direction of Pop Art with political and critical content.

life and work

Ramon Aguilella Cueco is a self-taught painter . His father, who came from Father Spain, was already painting, and his brother is the famous painter Henri (Aguilella) Cueco .

In 1962 and 1963 he had two exhibitions in Paris where he showed graphics. Afterwards he was represented with his paintings at numerous exhibitions, in particular in the Salon of Young Painting from 1965 and at the Biennale de Paris in 1965. He exhibited with the group "Art for Peace in Vietnam" in Paris, 1967 at the international exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , Netherlands " Artypo ". In 1968 he was represented with four works at the 4th documenta in Kassel . In 1970 he exhibited in " 100 Colors in the City " in Montpellier and had other exhibitions of his work, especially in Paris, (1965 to 1974), in Cologne , 1968 and 1969.

His work opposes war and all kinds of oppression. Often he does not convey his message superficially or aggressively, but rather with mockery and irony. His technique is the large collage , he shocks by lining up documents and uses press photos in his work. In 1974 he was visiting professor at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig .

Literature and Sources

• Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9

Web links

• Examples of his work
• Materials by and about Ramon in the documenta archive