Biography
Artist biography
Ramón Echavarría is a Colombian born artist (Medellin, 1975).
His work expresses his every day experiences and thoughts by the means of three artistic practices: painting, sculpture and music.
After working as a painter and musician for two decades, the artist adds the third language to his line of work in 2012: he begins to make bronze and resin sculptures. The last built pieces have been influenced by his proximity to the musical world and his direct relationship with musical instruments.
By the end of 2015 his goal is to accomplish a total of five big resin sculptures, to be placed in city parks, company buildings or private collections. These sculptures are outdoors resistant and they all have solid metal structures attached to their bases, which makes them very durable and stable. Impeccable hand made finishes and details are applied by an interdisciplinary group, using the best materials in order to achieve the best products.
The imagination of the artist leads him into a constant search, where he allows himself to experiment with different techniques:
- The antique sculptural technique known as the “lost wax cast bronze” and modern resin sculptures.
- The world of composing and recording, using digital audio.
- Drawings made with different colors of rolling pens, on high quality papers that are modified through a digital process.
These techniques support and serve the ideas of the artist, searching to create tangible messages in the form of three-dimensional objects, paintings and music: all pieces that emerge directly from his internal world.
ARTIST STATEMENT
After some years of research I started mixing and relating my different artistic backgrounds and ways of doing art. This led me into my recent sculptural work. My every day job is to convert lines into volumes and lyrics into lines.
My acoustic guitar and sketchbook are always close at hand, so I am constantly drawing and writing, improving my craft. Sometimes the drawings are left in the sketchbook and other times they evolve into more complete ideas and detailed images.
After trying a Fine Arts School, I decided to be a self taught artist in a search for autonomy and freedom of mind. The decision is based on my belief in the growth of the artist through his every day work and tenacity and not because of the academicism.
In my case as an artist, I think that I need to put aside the constantly changing styles of society and academy, to focus in my own experience and goals.
Each one of my projects often consists of multiple works, in a range of different media, grouped around specific themes and meanings. During research and production, new areas of interest arise and lead me to the next body of work.
The objects I make can be categorized within the canon of modernist art.
