"Canalero" (2010) Painting by Aristides Ureña Ramos

Born in Santiago de Veraguas in Panama, he has lived and worked in Florence for over twenty-five years, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and attended courses in Cinematography and technical specialization in Lithography and Engraving. His work has always explored different forms of artistic expression, keeping explosive creativity, irony and Latin sensibility alive in all its manifestations. He works in pictorial cycles.
Various murals and metropolitan graffiti created, including that of occupation in the Faculty of Education of Florence in 1977, murals and graffiti (Grew mix-1980) Florence, "Peace in Central America" Pisa and Florence (Grew Pana) 1982 and that of 1988 in San Bartolo a Cintoia (Florence). In 2003 he created the “Luz del llano” Mural Canvas (14 x 4 meters) intended for the university Paraninfo (meeting room) of the Regional University Center - Santiago de Veraguas - Panama. In the same year he completed the grandiose mural-dome at the St. Thomas Hospital in Panama City.
He has held solo exhibitions both in Italy and abroad (Panama, Venezuela, United States, Greece, Spain, Germany; among the most recent are those made at the "Il Moro" Gallery (Florence, 1988-1990), at the Cultural Center "AxA" (Florence, 1991), at the Palazzina Comunale in Scandicci (thematic exhibition "Classics", 1991), at the Gallery "Arteconsult" (Panama, 1993), at Ken's Gallery "Octubre en Cayenna" (Florence 1997), at the Riva Sinistra Arte "Vu Cum-rap" (Florence 1999), at the Mexico and Nuvole "Bolero's" (Florence 1999), at the Arteconsult Gallery "I took Panama" (Panama City 2001), at the Philochoria Art Gallery "Panorama LatinoAmericano" ( Santorini, Greece 2001), at the University of Hamburg "I took Panamà" (Germany 2002 C. Olmos - Hamburgo), at the Arteconsult “Alegorico's” Gallery (Panama City 2004).
He was also invited to prestigious exhibitions and events such as the Venice Biennale (Pavilion IILA, 1988-1997-2001), the Bienal de l'Habana in Cuba (1989 and 1991), the "Diplo" International Book Art Fair. (Fortezza da Basso, Florence, 1991), the Bienal de Panama (1992-1996-1998-2000), Painting by Panamà IILA Rome (1998) and the exhibition "La Paz, Capital of the IBEROAMERICAN culture" in Bolivia (1999) , Foreign Painters in Florence 2001, Contemporary Panama Rome-Milan-Paris-Madrid Panama, 2000), III ° biennial of the Central American Isthmus (Managua - Nicaragua, 2002).
(TO BE UPDATED IN 2004)

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists