Aramis Justiz

STATEMENT
I am an artist because I have always felt drawn to what humans are capable of expressing and creating with their hands, to the point that my own hands have been my main tool of expression throughout all of my artistic career.
I work in visual arts in general, and even though throughout the years I have been more dedicated to sculpture, I also express myself though printmaking and photography, as well as any other means that inspires my sensitivity. To express myself, I have used all the means and materials that have been available to me at every stage of my life, and I think that each technique or material is a language that allows some ideas or emotions to be better expressed than others. Coming from a country where modern technologies and materials are in short supply, I have used traditional ones, combining them on many occasions to enrich the final result. In recent years, I have integrated digital techniques to my communicative resources in art.
My creative process is diverse and has gradually changed over time, adjusting to the needs of each moment and idea. However, I generally prefer to approach the final work as directly as possible, because I think that the emotion of taming forms little by little until they ...

1988 - 1991 Associate degree in Art, San Alejandro Art School, Havana, Cuba.
1989 - 1990 Jewellery studies, Coral Negro Corporation S.A, Havana, Cuba

MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023 Parc dels Estanys, Platja d' Aro, Spain
2022 Miramar Cultural Centre, Sitges, Spain
2016 Hostal de los Carmelitas, Segovia, Spain
2014 Impactos, Casa de la Obrapía, Havana, Cuba
2009 A mi manera, National Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba.
2006 En Movimiento, National Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba.
2001 Benito Juárez House, Havana, Cuba.
1997/8 Wax Museum, Benidorm, Spain.
1996 Gallery at the Valencia Town Hall, Valencia, Spain.


MAIN GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 Finalists in the XXIII Pere Jou Contest, Sitges, Spain
2019 14 Bienal de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba
2019 Awagami International Mini-Print Exhibition,Yoshinogawa, Japon
2018 De la idea a la forma Santiago de Cuba.
2017 Concurso de Escultura Pere Jou, Sitges, Spain.
De la idea a la forma, Gallery of the Gran Teatro de La Habana, Cuba
2016 Galería Guerrero, Sitges, Spain.
2013 Bienal de Arte de la Habana, Cuba
2010 Bicentenario, Casa del ALBA, Havana, Cuba.
10 Cuban Sculptors, Casa del ALBA, Havana, Cuba.
2009 Velievo Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007 Espacio Común, National Museum of Colonial Art, Havana, Cuba.
Sculpture work in South Dakota, USA
2005...