Bio
This chilean artist has a complete and formal education in two different fields: Science and Arts. He completed his Art studies at the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York, United States and at the Angel Academy of Florence, Italy. His work, which includes painting, printmaking, drawing, installations, poetry and video art has been exhibited in Chile and the United States. It is in this country where specialized criticism has described it as complex, intimate and emotional *, making us meditate and question our agreements, our moral laws and codes of coexistence, to show us that no one but us is responsible for our own destiny as humanity.
(*) Art Trend Alert: Power Poses for the Disempowered, Oct 28 2015. The Clyde Fitch Report Website
In 1998 Ricardo Hernandez named his studio “The Seventh Circle”, making reference to Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”. It wasn’t a random denomination, because there is a clear connection between the description of inferno, made by Dante 700 years ago, and what Ricardo pass through for the materialization of his own work, full of setbacks, sickness and vicissitudes. Dante’s Seventh Circle is close to the end of the inferno’s journey, and mark the beginning of a redemption. For this reason, his studio represents for Hernandez the place for gestation of his work, and his own redemption.