Hernan Ardila

Hernan Ardila - Digital drawing

Biografía del Artista: 1963 Born in Bogotá, Colombia. Since 1990 he has lived and worked in Barcelona, ​​Spain. A multidisciplinary artist trained as a painter, engraver and photographer, he develops his work in painting, sculpture, drawing, digital drawing and photography. He has exhibited his work internationally in Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Germany and Colombia. 1963 Born in Bogotá, Colombia. 1990 Moves to Barcelona, ​​Spain.

The non-figurative pieces, drawings and canvases that make up the work of Hernán Ardila (Colombia, 1964), characterized by the preeminence of form and line, hard-edged planes of color and compositional fragmentation, focus both on the spatial value of form and on the tempo of repetitions and variations of line, color and material. His work is largely conceived as an installation. Although the spatial dimension was already present in his previous oil works, it takes on greater importance after his experiences with assembly. His task is limited to the union and arrangement of lines, shapes, fields of color, fragments of wood, plastic or metal. Proof of the unitary nature of his activity is the use he has acquired of the computer in the development of his work. The digitalization of the material, either by photography or from simulated forms, allows him to visualize in advance the relationships between the elements. Likewise, the assembly through digital replicas starts from the material and constitutes its development, its modification, its integration with other elements in a relationship of meaning… In his work there is a deep and heartfelt inquiry, although at the same time light, sensible and concrete, about the meaning and feeling of things. But precisely for this reason the search for accuracy in relationships must always be accompanied by a lack of certainty that requires not only the absence of meaning, but also a certain arrangement of the elements in the whole that makes their legibility difficult. Matter and instability, this sum could synthesize all his work. What really interests Ardila is the possibility of affecting a form, of altering it in multiple ways. In this sense, he always tries to operate there where things have not yet acquired a direction. His work is filled with intervened forms, elements in crisis put in relation in an order of things that keeps them at the limit, on the edge of the abyss, in imbalance; on the verge of moving, of jumping into the void, of ceasing to be or, what is the same, of becoming something else.