Pichardo

Mexico 1973-

Last week we studied the art of Enrique Pichardo Egea, a contemporary Mexican Expressionist. He paints faces and figures hauntingly, whimsically, in magical ensembles, colorful, cheerful, idiosyncratic, mysterious. In his paintings we find reminiscences of famous Mexican painters as well as Mexican history with symbols of pre-Columbian times. We often speak of the artist’s influences and his work is a good example of ancient to modern artists Miro and Picasso.

He was born in Mexico City in 1977. From an early age he showed interest in the arts, so years later he entered the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving La Esmeralda to focus on his true passion, painting. His artistic proposal is contemporary Mexican expressionist since in his works there are reminiscences of the pre-Hispanic past from which he rescues symbolisms of an indigenous era that had the magical and colorful vision of his ancestors as well as the tribute to internationally recognized national painters, all this combined at the same time remaining open to influences from the world that keep it current and always changing.

Family, love and human relationships are the most common topics. In his paintings. With his work he aims at free association. Creations are objects and symbols – figures in between. The pictures are images with an almost dream-like dimension in which he depicts the relationship between the use of organic and the geometric, between beings and objects, or between the material and the aesthetic while also incorporating influences from ancient and tribal art, creating a timeless and universal language of symbols and expressions.