About the artist:

Francisco Ruiz studied at the Superior School of Fine Arts of the Nation Ernesto de la Cárcova in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he specialized in mural painting. Throughout his career he has participated in art biennials and held individual exhibitions in Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. His work is part of the collections of the Contemporary Art Museums of Salta and Bogotá, the Museum of Latin American Art in Cracow, the Library of the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of the Revolution of Havana, Cuba, among other institutions plus. "Ruiz's mirrors do not reflect anything, they are not receivers of images, they are emitters of light, they are the place of a radiation." Gold, silver and pearls, "repeated the accounting documents of the conquest of America. The office of restorer of colonial art, became familiar with the use of the gold and silver leaf. What his current works propose is a return to the sources, a kind of redemption of gold and silver that are again light Of mirrors on condition that they are read like the pre-Columbian ones.We are made to enter, he says, in a new dimension.I would say that they make us leave the three dimensions of representation and flood us with their warm light.