Israel
Ariño

Israel Ariño

biography

Born in Barcelona in 1974, Israel Ariño studied photography at Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya (IEFC) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Barcelona. He’s one of those photographers who never stoped at the surface of things and for whom every singe image can be read as a puzzle.

On the string of reality and fiction, on the edge of rationality, he makes pictures which are perceptive and subjective doors to other dimensions which can be dreamlike, imaginary or mournfull, lies or tales.

His world seems to be subverted, at the limit of a tilt or an unsteadiness which could lead to the hallucination, the dream, the madness.

Since 2001, he is periodically exhibiting his work in Spain and France and publishing artists’ books: Chambre avec vue (2006), Otras canciones a Guiomar (2008), Anatomía de una desaparición (2009).

His editions allow him to explore and develop, with the photography, his own narrative devices and ideas. In 2012, his book Atlas published by the Editions Anómalas has been selected for the exposition “Books that are photos, photos that are books fotos” at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid which is presenting the most prestigious photography’s books. In 2013, he became member of the publishing house  Ediciones Anómalas.

Israel Ariño is represented by the Galerie VU in Paris.

Series

Voyage en pays du Clermontois, 2019

At no time is it a question of making a moral judgment on the territories crossed. The aim is more to get rid of a whole series of codes, peremptory ideas and clichés associated with the knowledge of a place.

La pesanteur du lieu, 2017

Israel Ariño spent two months at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany during an artist's residency. In the region, it is said that an old house, lost in the domain, only appears at nightfall.

The name which erases the colour, 2014

The series Le nom qui efface la couleur articulate itself around the idea of the achievable, the possibility to be a thing or another, to fall or to fly, to stay or to disappear … Eventually, of this freedom which belongs to the man and forces him to choose betwenn several positions.

Terra Incognita, 2012

Terra Incognita was born from the exploration of a territory by the very person who wants to be an observer and at the same time is observed.

Atlas, 2012

The Atlas series represents an autobiographical synthesis, full of obsessions, appearances and discoveries...

Crónicas de un desembarco, 2006

For this series, the journey has served as a pretext for translating experiences and for arranging several times - physical, metaphorical and imaginary - and composing them as a reflexive, vital territory.

Voyage en pays du Clermontois, 2019

At no time is it a question of making a moral judgment on the territories crossed. The aim is more to get rid of a whole series of codes, peremptory ideas and clichés associated with the knowledge of a place.

La pesanteur du lieu, 2017

Israel Ariño spent two months at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany during an artist's residency. In the region, it is said that an old house, lost in the domain, only appears at nightfall.

The name which erases the colour, 2014

The series Le nom qui efface la couleur articulate itself around the idea of the achievable, the possibility to be a thing or another, to fall or to fly, to stay or to disappear … Eventually, of this freedom which belongs to the man and forces him to choose betwenn several positions.

Terra Incognita, 2012

Terra Incognita was born from the exploration of a territory by the very person who wants to be an observer and at the same time is observed.

Atlas, 2012

The Atlas series represents an autobiographical synthesis, full of obsessions, appearances and discoveries...

Crónicas de un desembarco, 2006

For this series, the journey has served as a pretext for translating experiences and for arranging several times - physical, metaphorical and imaginary - and composing them as a reflexive, vital territory.

Voyage en pays du Clermontois, 2019

At no time is it a question of making a moral judgment on the territories crossed. The aim is more to get rid of a whole series of codes, peremptory ideas and clichés associated with the knowledge of a place.

La pesanteur du lieu, 2017

Israel Ariño spent two months at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany during an artist's residency. In the region, it is said that an old house, lost in the domain, only appears at nightfall.

The name which erases the colour, 2014

The series Le nom qui efface la couleur articulate itself around the idea of the achievable, the possibility to be a thing or another, to fall or to fly, to stay or to disappear … Eventually, of this freedom which belongs to the man and forces him to choose betwenn several positions.

Terra Incognita, 2012

Terra Incognita was born from the exploration of a territory by the very person who wants to be an observer and at the same time is observed.

Atlas, 2012

The Atlas series represents an autobiographical synthesis, full of obsessions, appearances and discoveries...

Crónicas de un desembarco, 2006

For this series, the journey has served as a pretext for translating experiences and for arranging several times - physical, metaphorical and imaginary - and composing them as a reflexive, vital territory.

Interviews

Une histoire brève de la photographie
Le Grand Palais
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2018

Interview of Israel Ariño on the subject of photography as part of photography courses offered by the RMN-Grand palais and the Orange Foundation.

Carrete Vol 2
Carrete
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2017

A small sample of the interview we did with the photographer Israel Ariño.

La pesanteur du lieu
Galerie VU’
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2017

Israel Ariño talks about his series La pensanteur du lieu on the occasion of his exhbition at Galerie VU’.

Israel Ariño et sa technique du XIXe siècle
Le Télégramme
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Vidéo directed by Cathy Dogon, 2014

Report on the working technique of Israel Arino, recognized in France for his use of the wet collodion.

Israel Ariño : Atlas y otras cartografias
Arteclip
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2013

Interview conducted during the visit of the Israel Arino exhibition entitled Atlas y otras cartographias at the Tagomago Gallery.

Books

Voyage en pays du Clermontois

Ediciones Anomalas - 2019

La pesanteur du lieu

Ediciones Anómalas - 2017

Le nom qui efface la couleur

Ediciones Anómalas / Editions Filigranes / Nature Humaine - 2014

L'explorateur et les caprices du hasard

Carré Amelot - 2012

Terra incognita

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012

Atlas

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012

Voyage en pays du Clermontois

Ediciones Anomalas - 2019

La pesanteur du lieu

Ediciones Anómalas - 2017

Le nom qui efface la couleur

Ediciones Anómalas / Editions Filigranes / Nature Humaine - 2014

L'explorateur et les caprices du hasard

Carré Amelot - 2012

Terra incognita

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012

Atlas

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012

Voyage en pays du Clermontois

Ediciones Anomalas - 2019

La pesanteur du lieu

Ediciones Anómalas - 2017

Le nom qui efface la couleur

Ediciones Anómalas / Editions Filigranes / Nature Humaine - 2014

L'explorateur et les caprices du hasard

Carré Amelot - 2012

Terra incognita

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012

Atlas

Ediciones Anómalas - 2012