No. 020
Ramiro Smith Estrada
All the pretty horses
80x80cm
Oil on canvas
2025
I’ve made it more autobiographical, the Azabache book was a present from my grandfather when I was 9 years old, Broncos refers to Denver a city that has been very present in my life in the past years and where I hold some real friends. The English hunting scene in the background refers to my childhood living at my grandfathers farm and going out on horses with my father. She is in motion as to represent speed, her hand doing the V means victory as in power and strengh and auguries a prosper new year.
About the Artist
Ramiro Smith Estrada
（Argentina, b.1984)
Ramiro Smith Estrada, 1984, lives and works in Buenos Aires. He pursued Engraving as a career at Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2007. He was selected to be displayed at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in the field of Engraving in 2010 and 2013, and to the Williams Award in 2012. In 2014 he was selected to attend the Contemporary Artistic Practices clinic (PAC, for its initials in Spanish) conducted by Gachi Prieto Gallery and delivered by renowned artists and professors Eduardo Stupia, Rodrigo Alonso, Rafael Cippoletti and Andres Wassiman. The same year he took part of a four-Argentinian-artist showing exhibition at VICE Gallery in the context of Art Basel Miami Beach. In 2015 he participated in an art residency program at LaVallee in Brussels, Belgium.