Ram Ram is the name under which Portuguese visual artist Miguel Caeiro (b. 1976) has been operating since he began painting illegally in the streets in 1997. A precursor of experimental graffiti and urban art, Ram has been treading a unique path in creating an entirely original language in the world of the new urban aesthetics. His energetic explosions of colour and dynamic forms come close to a contemporary action painting imbued with a visionariness of a psychedelic nature, following a line of intense vitality that expresses the construction of ethereal realities – projections of a fertile imagination of the subconscious and the unconscious where the dynamic and primeval force of nature rules. A native of Sintra, he grew up in the intersection between the natural and untamed world and the urban and civilised one. With an innate predisposition to complement opposites, his work reflects the assimilation of both in the creation of a new vision. A voyage through the fantastic that started with his fascination for archaeology and lost worlds which found echo in his longing for exploration, for transcendence. A blend of mystery and mysticism, voyage and adventure, graphic and visual expression, poetry in motion. Ram is, in fact, short for Ramses, a reflection of With an instinctive inclination for experimentation, the artist has come to refine the technical side of painting, liberating his lines. From heavy, solid shapes he gradually moved towards improvisation, free movement, fluidity. Performative action and energy gained presence, leading him to the individual language which today characterises a style which seems wild and untamed, yet is meticulous, precise and fully balanced. Throughout the years, that same unfaltering movement has led him to explore a multiplicity of media – from the detailed intimacy of watercolours to the manifest grandeur of large-scale murals, from conceptual installation to interdisciplinary performance.Miguel MooreOctober 2014