Yaco Art Gallery 53 East Street, Obarrio Panama City, Panama
September 23, 2021
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.
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
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
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,
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