Ricardo Efraín Flecha Galeano is a lawyer by profession, but he also works as a cultural manager, plastic artist and ceramicist. He is also a gourmet technician. He draws and paints since his school days, but since 2000 he has dedicated himself to painting in greater depth, with techniques such as acrylic on canvas and oil.
As part of his training, he attended workshops with Cisco Ruiz Díaz, Tomás Salinas and Gary Milner, with whom he developed his way of painting. As for her time in ceramics, she studied with Ofelia Fisman, with whom she experienced a different side to the one she already knew about art.
For his theoretical training he attended whenever he could to workshops at Juan de Salazar, theoretical workshops on cultural management at the UCA and at the ISA, he says. All this served him for one of the largest projects in which he participated as a cultural manager in the area of public relations, which was the Asunción International Art Biennial, since its inception in 2015.
His main inspiration when it comes to painting is the nature around him, and he considers himself an expressionist. Among his works indigenous themes also occupy a very important place. His paintings are characterized by a large size, a profusion of strong colors and marked brushstrokes, some doses of pointillism in flowers, women and characters in love.
He exhibited on several occasions, both individually and collectively, in the Manzana de la Rivera, the Citibank Cultural Center, the Japanese Paraguayan Center, among others. His future plans include the possibility of continuing to create, painting, drawing and also “working in art and for art as a cultural contribution to the country as a cultural manager with the Asunción International Biennial.”
Painting and other manual activities are always recommended to treat stress, which is why it played a fundamental role during the strictest quarantine, for many artists and hobbyists. The painter relates that the pandemic, like many, spent it mainly locked up and with great anguish. Drawing and painting represented a valuable escape for him, although he comments that he also had to deal with a shortage of materials and a growing personal uncertainty, a problem that affected several and became normalized over time.
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