Mexico City, Mexico Visual artist, self-taught painter. He always uses his ex-wife as a model in his paintings. Most of his works are acrylic on canvas, with images that are the result of montage.
His works are based on photographs, but none of them corresponds to specific moments in his life. His photographs capture the scene as a reference, as a style of record to generate a piece with realistic characteristics, but not a copy.
Since his beginnings, Ricardo Cárdenas has merged art and engineering to create sculptures that explore forms, materials, and structures. His training as a civil engineer and his experience in the
ADN (2022) arises from several formal explorations that Villabon has been working on: light, darkness, color, and the very materiality of the bags. It also comes from the photographic analysis
Trained at the San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts and the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Ricardo Ríos possesses a solid academic foundation that, far from imposing a