This compelling artwork stands out as a definitive statement in a contemporary expressionist painting, masterfully balancing a quiet look at modern domestic life with an extraordinary, luxury material palette. Hand-painted using a sophisticated mixed media blend on premium heavy canvas, the self-taught Brazilian artist Ramonn Vieitez elevates an intimate scene by incorporating genuine 24k gold leaf and pink Dutch leaf directly into the pigments. The narrative centers on a young man resting inside an ocher textile hammock while checking his smartphone, shadowed by a sleeping tuxedo cat and a pair of bold, bright pink slide sandals on the floor. By contrasting the rigid, repeating pattern of the dark red hexagonal floor tiles with the dense, vibrant greenery visible through the background window grid, Vieitez transitions a casual Sunday into an archive-quality centerpiece custom-tailored for selective fine art collections.
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsively producing works of astonishing lyricism, melancholy, and, perhaps most importantly, sincerity. As a queer individual, he playfully engages with a stunning variety of references but shares the conviction that painting can yield intimate and revelatory forms of expression. His works convey a sense of energy and movement, existing between figuration and imagined landscapes – they serve as windows to luminous, vibrant, and melancholic places. His production arises from the desire for understanding and the construction of an honest memory, a quest to reveal suppressed desires and lost truths.
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Contemporary Expressionist Painting - Sunday in Recife, 2021. By Ramonn Vieitez
Sunday in Recife, 2020 - 2021
Oil, acrylic, 24k gold leaf, and pink Dutch leaf on canvas
Dimensions: 39.3 H x 26.7 W in.
Unique
Signed on the back by the artist
Unframed
Ramonn Veitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist and has participated in several individual exhibitions, such as at the Museu do Homem do Nordeste (Brazil, Recife) MEB - Centro Cultural Mercado Eufrasio Barbosa (Brazil, Olinda) and at the Amparo 60, Baró and Portas Vilaseca galleries; He also participated in several group exhibitions, including “SEMPRENUNCA Fomos Modernos” at the Museu do Estado de Pernambuco (MEPE) and “Atentxs e Fortes - 50 Anos de Stonewall” at the Casa de Cultura da América Latina DEX/Unb, “Ao Amor do público I - Doações da ArtRio (2012-2015) e MinC/Funarte” at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), and it is in collections such as that of the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM-Rio), Arte Al Límite at Santiago de Chile, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche among others.














