Hugo Cárdenas

Hugo Cárdenas

Hugo Cárdenas

About your work

Constantly conducts searches and relies on research to propose compositional relationships between solids and voids, planimetric and volumetric games, and above all, to communicate narratives or scenographies around poetics and the history created from metaphor and memory. 

Timelessness is reflected as an event that is established outside of our timeline and that gives us an understanding of a poetic function about our own existence through an image as memory.

It is then that the image that comes from that timelessness makes us understand the exercise of imagining scenarios or situations that arise from our need to create ephemeral representations regardless of the memories and limitations that we consider real in our time frame.

In their professional practice as an artist, they constantly conduct searches and rely on research to propose, through drawing as a vital language in contemporary artistic practices, compositional relationships between solids and voids, planimetric and volumetric games, and especially poetics that allow them to play with the narration of their own memory.

Biography

They studied Visual Arts at the Fundación Universitaria de Bellas Artes in the city of Medellín in Colombia and completed a Master's degree in drawing and painting at the Accademia Riaci in the city of Florence, Italy. They specialized in creative and children's illustration at the Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art (Eina) in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

They have held several individual and collective exhibitions in Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and Colombia, including the Arte Laguna Prize, Como Contemporany Contest, Davinci Quinientos, Malaga Art Fair, Barcelona Big Awards, Dress Your Wall, Feria del Millón, Circuito de Arte de Cartagena, and Salon Nacional de Dibujo.