Ricardo Mazal

Ricardo Mazal, one of Mexico’s most prominent contemporary artists, explores themes of life, death, transformation and regeneration through a multidisciplinary approach to painting that combines photography and digital technology. For Mazal, photography is a bridge that links reality to abstraction. He begins by manipulating his photographs on the computer to compose a digital sketch. He then moves onto the canvas, delicately layering oil paint using foam-rubber blades. To reveal luminous passages of color, Mazal sweeps a dry blade with varying degrees of pressure across the canvas. The vestiges of paint are almost embryonic in structure with faint texture and hue.