IMAGINARY CARTOGRAPHY: A PROPOS OF RICARDO CADENAS’S ARTISTIC WORK

Abstract

This paper presents a research that explores the visual work of the renowned artist Ricardo Cadenas (Seville, 1960), focusing particularly on those creative proposals and concepts that allow us to refer to the evocative concept of imaginary cartography in a suggestive way. This study offers a personal
approach of the work and thought of Cadenas. It underscores both the value of the drawing as a graphic expression in combination with other techniques and materials, as the ability of his work to establish new open and multidisciplinary relations. Methodologically, the study is based on the analysis of works and texts by the author himself, interviews and discussions with him, catalogues, exhibitions and bibliographic reference documentation.