Óscar Raña

( Spanish, Vigo, 1990 )

Um dois, um dois. (One two, one two)

February 24^th to March 26^th 2022

Um, dois; um, dois presents a new, never-seen-before series of graphic objects created by Óscar Raña.

Raña’s practice has brought together creative tools and approaches that come from the distinct world of visual arts, graphic design, comics and illustration, leading to an endless exploration of compositions of lively colors, and that find themselves between figuration and narrative on the one end, and abstracting dissolution on the other. At one time minimalist and psychedelic, Raña’s images unite apparently contradictory territories.

With several projects of artist’s books, zines and unidentified publications under his belt, the author has contributed often to that porous field of experimental narrative/sequential graphics. Every image of his is teeming with elements – whether figurative, formal, structural or compositional – that create connections to one another, and make their re-reading, requalification and reconsideration compulsory, in a ceaseless search for overall meaning. ~

The ten fine art print images presented in the present exhibition are particularly dedicated to a precise and dynamic geometry, where one seeks the emergence of movement, volume and harmony.

An additional series of smaller original drawings will reveal the artist’s processes, as well as the material diversity of his work. Moreover, a few animated projects will be shown.

A new publication related to the exhibition will be launched in tandem with the opening.

Óscar Raña
Publications

2015 - El Jardín Devastado/Los Incapaces, Fosfatina ed., w/ Julia Huete, Vigo (Spain).
2015 - Drama Sureño #1 & #2, self-published zine, with Julia Huete, Galicia (Spain).
2016 – FINNEGANS #3, various artists, Foster Ediciones ed., Galicia (Spain).
2016 - Drama Sureño #3, self-published zine, with Julia Huete, Galicia (Spain).
2016 - Taiga zine #1 and #2, collective zine, Galicia (Spain).
2017- Tensión Añadida, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2017 – Anomaly #25, digital publication, Anomalous press (ed.), Boston (EEUU).
2017 - Flus, Flus, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2017 - TIK TOK comics: Fuegos Extraños, digital publication, TIK TOK ed., Madrid.
2017 - Hypersex zine, V/A, art-zine part of the Moullinex’s album Hypersex, Lisboa.
2017 - Uno, Dos; Uno, Dos, Fosfatina ed., Vigo (Spain).
2017 - HE-HE, self-published zine, w/ Cynthia Alfonso, Galicia (Spain).
2017 - Super Towers, various artists, Vincent Fritz (ed.), Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany).
2017 - Hu-Pink, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2018 - Hu-Pink, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2018 - Cocktails Long Drink, various artists, Studio Pilar (ed.), Roma.
2018 - About Series #8, Gloria Glitzer (ed.), Berlin.
2018 - New Troupe, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2019 - Ojos de nada, self-published zine, Vigo (Spain).
2019 - Mangy Mutt, Fosfatina ed., Vigo (Spain).
2020 - Sopapo, w/Cynthia Alfonso, Último Mono ed., Sevilla (España).
2021 - LEIRA|LERIA, w/Cynthia Alfonso, Palm Press ed., Paris.

Group Exhibitions

2021 – Correspondences, Silk Gallery, Madrid.
2020 - MiiC, Mostra Internacional de Ilustración Contemporánea (Sede AFundación,
Santiago de Compostela, 2020)
2018 – Squeeze-Oh – Viñetas dende o Atlántico, A Coruña (Spain).
2018 – Chic@s Maravilla-Wunderkinder, w/ Max Baitinger, Swinton & Grant, Madrid.
2018 – Moullinex presents: Hypersex, MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e
Tecnologia, Lisboa.
2016 - Festival CaraB, Barcelona (Spain).
2016 - Esa es la Vaina, White Collective, Vigo (Spain).
2016 - Aniversario White Collective. Vigo (Spain).
2016 - Feliz en tu día, w/Julia Huete and Santi Zubizarreta. Halcón Milenario, Vigo
(Spain).
2016 - Animal Collective, w/Fulgencio Pimentel, CENTRO CENTRO, Madrid.
Rapapawn Exhibitions:
2022 – Narcohumanismo, Bòlit, 2021 Girona.
2021 – El arte en el cómic, Fundación Telefónica, Pazo da cultura, Pontevedra.
2021 – Afinidades Selectivas XII, Casa da cultura galega, Vigo.
2019 – DEMO | It’s Nice that, Amsterdam
2019 – Imaxinario total | Casa das Artes, Vigo. Spain
2019 – Ruina | Maison Ruina, Vigo. Spain
2018 – Cadence video poetry festival | Mountain analogue , Seattle
2018 – Showcase | Cold Cube, Seattle, USA
2018 – Wet dreams | White colective, Vigo, Spain
2018 – Showcase | Cold Cube, Seattle



Solo Exhibitions

2019 - Xa foi (mais é), sala Alterarte, Ourense
2022 – Um, dois; Um, dois, Tinta nos Nervos, Lisboa