Yaco Art Gallery 53 East Street, Obarrio Panama City, Panama
December 10-11, 2020
Everything he learned at the School of Engineering in Medellín, plus the drawing and painting classes at the School of Fine Arts, plus the knowledge he brought from Massachusetts where he did a postgraduate degree in Engineering, plus the life he has lived, all of that mixed with a special talent and sensitivity to see what many people do not perceive, is what makes his gazes become thoughts, and these become art. “I look, I think, I draw, I draw, I draw, I select and I build,” he often says, to define his way of working. These verbs are written on the walls of his workshop and I believe they are also tattooed in his blood. They are his own mantra that brings him to the surface in his creative work.
Ricardo’s drawings are the result of looking at the environment with an artist’s eyes. In this there is no difference with the painters and sculptors of other times who also transform reality through their own memories.
Painted Aluminum
41.10 × 89.02 × 9.49 In
Painted aluminum
28.43 × 48.50 × 13.43 In
Painted aluminum
27.28 × 47.01 × 15.16 In
Painted aluminum
77.40 × 28.54 × 25.31 In
Painted aluminum
79.21 × 34.25 × 28.50 In
Painted aluminum
(side 1 and side 2)
17.36 × 13.70 × 9.29 In
Painted aluminum
43.90 × 42.91 × 8.58 In
Painted aluminum
44.88 × 43.70 × 10.43 In
Stainless Steel
Larger diameter 52.36 × 46.46 In
Stainless Steel
Larger diameter 48.03 × 43.70 In
This exhibition is a personal and intimate chronicle of the artist who recovers and recreates the sense of the place he describes through his paintings. Magdalena is a sensitive evocation
Ricardo’s drawings are the result of looking at his surroundings through the eyes of an artist. In this respect, he is no different from painters and sculptors of the past,
In order to repel flies and other insects, in Colombia and some other tropical locations, plastic bags filled with water are suspended at different heights.
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