Ricardo Cárdenas

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.