Love Story by Leonardo Ramadinha (May 29, 2010) 
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Introduction by Patricia Gouvea
Photographs feed me. Photographs transport me. Photographs leave a mark on me. Photographs open a gap in ordinary time or transform the ordinary in extraordinary.
This selection of photographic works does not have a master line: they constitute just one part of the images that in some moment aroused emotion in me and for that reason accompany me to these days. These are works from artists as different as their paths, reflections and challenges that each theme provoked, leading them to create methods, concepts and solutions to turn into matter what is born reverie.
Some projects look closer to documentation, like the trance funk Totoma! by Daniela Dacorso. Or the portraits of the domestic workers and their bosses, by the Slovenian Andrej Balco (who, after a period of time in Rio, escaped from the cliché poorness – violence, looking at the carioca middle class). Or, still, the Baixo Estácio by the very carioca A.C. Junior, where Samba is more silence than happiness.
Other projects point to gaps and small signs left on the skin of the urban tissue, that talk about love and pain, like the series Love Story, by Leonardo Ramadinha. And to enigmatic landscapes that could only exist in the mind of dreamers like the Argentine photographer Esteban Pastorino that, in the series K.P.A., turns into models places photographed from a kite fitted with a handmade camera. How not to be attentive also to the humorous and self-explicative Sobremim (Aboutme), by Isabela Lira? And to the Mexican Alfredo De Stéfano who, in his series Replenishing Emptiness, makes the desert a territory of the ephemeral, with his experiences of intimacy and relativization of nature?
Make these images yours, take them with you wherever you go, be attentive to the thickness of time that exists in each one of them. A more frenetic time or a more decelerated time, it doesn’t matter. Just stop and observe.
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The series Love Story presents images that are a result of years of research on the impermanence and the affective relationships.
A transitory instantaneous diary, using elements from nature and situations of daily life to talk about the several facets of love relationships.
Eternal loves, disposable loves, finite and infinite, conflicts, separations and mismatches are part of this panel represented in a simple, metaphoric and poetic manner.
About the artist:Leonardo Ramadinha lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He graduated In Social Communication by PUC, getting a post graduation course in Photography and Social Sciences from UCAM and a Speciality in Visual Arts at Unesa.
Ramadinha has exhibited collectively or individually in Brazil, Argentina, U.S.A., Colombia, Germany and Slovenia. He is one of the editors of the electronic visual arts magazine Verbete.art. Leonardo Ramadinha is represented in Rio de Janeiro by Galeria Arte em Dobro, he is also part of the Pequena Galeria de Artes Cândido Mendes and the Centro Cultural Recoleta collectives in Buenos Aires.
Leonardo Ramadinha (1977) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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[...] e pequenos sinais deixados na pele do tecido urbano para falar sobre amor e dor, como a série Love Story, de Leonardo Ramadinha. Ou as enigmáticas paisagens que só poderiam existir na mente de [...]
[...] e pequenos sinais deixados na pele do tecido urbano para falar sobre amor e dor, como a série Love Story, de Leonardo Ramadinha. Ou as enigmáticas paisagens que só poderiam existir na mente de [...]