Manuel Calderón

Manuel Calderón is a drawer, an artist who keeps the understanding of drawing latent in its classical sense, but from that same latency he seeks how to pervert it. Calderón is an obsessive observer, a student of the visual and its multiple forms of representation, always using academic and ancestral elements such as: pencil, charcoal, pastel or ink. For a long time the artist has investigated the language of photorealism amazed by the plausible and illusory aspect of these images. Also his own body in some cases turns out to be the instrument of reference that allows him to penetrate the intimate of the individual. His self-portraits manage to contain a universal thought on matters of art and man in their relationship with the world. His space for thought is the making itself, the act of drawing and creating for unlimited times where his findings originate. He does not make sketches because the ideas are planned in his mind.