Part of José Ricardo Contreras’s critically acclaimed Composition with Tools series, this unique physical creation treats the room plane as an analytical laboratory, presenting editing interfaces as physical images themselves to highlight their hidden aesthetics. The minimalist cylindrical layout tracks an intense graphic rhythm, coordinating a complex mixed media matrix of fluid acrylic fields, precise oil paint color bars, and a decontextualized ready-made world globe. By balancing a technical color spectrum wheel with playful truisms and subtle humor, this calculated visual system converts everyday tech documentation routines into an uncompromised architectural gravity that provokes new questions about contemporary social realities and global perspective.
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras, after long hours using digital editing tools, presents these tools as images themselves, highlighting their hidden aesthetics. This generates associations and similarities, awakening their sensitive potential with a humor parallel to their constant search for new perspectives on everyday life.
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Contemporary Floor Sculpture - La Línea Roja, 2023. By Jose Ricardo Contreras
La Línea Roja, 2023
From The Composition with Tools series
Acrylic and oil on canvas in wooden structure and object
Dimensions: 9.8 H x 25.9 D in.
José Ricardo Contreras González, a native of Colombia, holds a Master of Arts from the Universidad Industrial in Santander. As a result of his work, he has held solo and group exhibitions in Colombia and Spain. Currently, its process is guided by two investigations that are conducted in parallel. The first reflects on the mechanisms of representation of reality, the images of flow, and their implications, and the second investigates the landscape and migration processes, using the review of domestic archives, literature, and fieldwork as a resource.
















