He grew up in a middle class home as an only child for almost nine years. He spent most of his childhood alone and playing using his imagination to cope with his solitude. While creating toys he used his imagination, creativity and drawing to perfect them. One late afternoon on a weekend his father took him into a plaza where people were gathering around someone. As his father made his way through the crowd he discovered that someone was in the process of creating something. He could not understand what the man was doing with his dirty hands as he gracefully expressed himself. He asked his father what that man was doing. His father looked at him and responded "he is an artist, he is a painter!". As the months went by he could not forget that experience and started using the weekend newspapers that his father graciously bought him. He started his experimentation using silly putty that an aunt got for him on one of her trips to the states. With the ball he started copying photos from the old newspapers and combining frames, stretching, cutting and creating new views. Still he did not accomplish what he really wanted. His creations were short lived but his ambition was not. Aranacci knew that his next step was to paint like in the big leagues, "to be an artist". He quickly got a hold of some oil color and a big bottle of mimeograph ink. He was not going to be satisfied painting on cardboard so he asked his mother if she had any white material that he could paint on. She left the room and came back with an old white sheet. She tore it in front of him. That was his first canvas and his first painting! A memory he will never forget! He has been painting since a child and learning from great masters like: Julia Codesido, Sérvulo Gutierrez Alarcón and Macedonio De La Torre. After leaving school and in an ultimate attempt to "live like everyone else", Aranacci worked in marketing for a number of years. He failed joyously. Painting is his existence. He can't escape it. His subjects reflect a fascination with fairy-tale childhood (play & movement), music, dance, and, of course, women, but forever in movement and at the same time still. The walls of Aranacci's studio in Chicago, are sheltered with paintings, almost as if his need to paint just bursts forth from him. His paintings mix yard, ink, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, acrylics, oil, sand, metal and an abundance of different materials. He currently lives and works in the Chicagoland area. Many of his paintings are held in private and commercial collections in the USA, Canada, Europe and South America. He creates his pieces in all medias (watercolor, oil, acrylic, silk, yarn) and in any genre. He also specializes in developing a convex-canvas and concave-canvas for any commercial application. He's had personal exhibitions in Chicago, Miami, New York, and Aspen.

     
above Julia Codesido

  
above Macedonio De La Torre 

 
above Sérvulo Gutierrez Alarcón