Survivors, 2021

Ramiro Baptista  

Form and color, delivered with discrete but solemn traces, are some of the landmarks of Ramiro Baptista's work. His themes stream from the human condition and the local landscape. He has perfected a clean and spontaneous approach, both technically and conceptually. The use of ochres and sepias is recurrent in many of his pieces, as well as a deconstruction of the human figure often accompanied by balanced brushstrokes full of color. 

He remarks about his work: “My work can be framed within costumbrismo, images of villages and their people, of a syncretic nature that one lives. This is the perfect excuse to create a diversity of paintings using acrylics as a media and technique to portray all this enigmatic world that is rendered to me in every corner I visit."

Baptista has participated of more than 40 collective shows and organized multiple individual exhibitions in galleries and halls across Bolivia. He received the first place four times at national painting competitions; a first place in drawing at a national competition, and multiple honorable mentions for his drawings and paintings. In 2015 he received a recognition awarded by Cochabamba's Legislature for his outstanding artistic trajectory.