Melquiades Ramos’ work is currently on display at Madrid’s ARTEUNO gallery. The space and exhibition, named Punto y aparte, was inaugurated on September 15.
Ramos’ poetics has long been associated with “art primitivism.” Truth is that the artist became familiar with Tapies’s strategies and Rufino Tamayo’s color in the mid 1970s, marked by the search for authenticity based on colors.
His pieces can be identified by the simplicity in his formal solutions that drive them away from any kind of sensationalism and adornment. The final result is determined by the material used, though not in a passive interaction, since Ramos provokes and lets himself be provoked, looking for a result that echoes everyday events and sensations. That’s the reason why he goes through different styles, while being a direct act in which the real is shown in the work.
The painter has stressed the importance of theory and research in understanding and enjoying the phenomenon of art, as well as how essential visual education is in opening the mind and making it possible for us to see the concrete in the abstract.
The exhibition is like a review of the thematic diversity in Melquiades Ramos’ work, as it comprises historical painting, everyday sceneries, frozen moments, fantasies, portraits…Being the color always the main character. It will be open to the public until October 29, 2011.
Melquiades Ramos (Madrid 1953) studied at the Escuela de Graduados Sociales of Madrid and moved to Mexico in 1975 determined to devote himself full time to painting and literature. He had the opportunity to meet and share some time with Wifredo Lam, Octavio Paz, Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Morales, Enrique Mayer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Juan Rulfo, among others. He worked for the Ministry of Culture as collaborator in the promotion of Mexican Contemporary Literature, and wrote art reviews for the Excelsior and El Día newspapers. At the same time his paintings have been shown in personal and collective displays. In 2005, Ramos founded Factor 4, an art gallery in Cartagena (Spain).
ARTEUNO, located in the Center of Madrid, was inaugurated this year with the purpose of promoting contemporary art, welcoming the work of both experienced artists and up-and-comers.
ARTEUNO
Piamonte 27, 28004 Madrid
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