"I try to represent the way the impressionists painted: through free and spontaneous action. I count on an infinity of pieces of different colors, shapes and sizes, which allow me to take them and place them in different ways, to finally create a sculptural work in an instinctive way."
Ricardo Cárdenas began art classes at the National school of Fine Arts at five years old and continued his studies with independent professors until the age of 22. He studied Civil Engineering in the Engineering school of Antioquia and then realized a Masters Degree in manufactures in the University of Massachusetts.
His work is built with metal rods, wire and welding, materials that reiterate the concept of unstable sculpture, and its origin is born in the drawings of controlled spontaneity, repeated and impetuous lines. The artist searches for a constant in his diverse pieces by the way he draws imaginary structures of ideas that he finds in nature. He fabricates objects with natural elements. When he begins his study or drawing, the impulse and the contrasting lines begin to open up possibilities. Then he begins a series of repetitions until he considers his drawings the starting point of sculptures.