About Enrique Pichardo

Enrique Pichardo,  born in Mexico City, displayed a strong interest in the visual arts and a keen eye for detail from a very early age. His rare talent was quicky recognized and he spent his formative years experimenting, developing and honing his artistic skills before enrolling at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Esculura y Grabado, “La Esmerelda” (National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda") In Mexico City.

Pichardo’s strong, bold and dynamic style is a contemporary representation of Mexican expressionism. His artworks explore the pre-hispanic ideologies and culture. He has  become internationally renowned and celebrated within the Latin Art world for his distinct pre-colonial inspired symbolisms of an indigenous era, a mystical civilization  which was rich in culture, magic and colour. Pichardo’s artworks display intricate decorative designs and pictorial symbols reminiscent of Mesoamerican figures, shapes and colours as well as incorporating the Aztec essence into his artworks. The concept of linear forms, lines, codices and volumes, that is at the same time a cosmology are represented in Pichardo’s work as well as the depiction of bold flat plains of colour in a bi-dimensional formula demonstrated in indigenous art.  As a result he has re-established the concept and rules of perspective, depth and dimension 

Pichardo’s artworks are primarily figurative, in a liner form, with magical ensembles,  often whimsical or with a child-like innocence. His vibrant colour tones, striking plains of block colour, pictorial signs, biomorphic forms and geometric shapes demonstrate inspiration from the great Modern European artists Juan Miro and Pablo Picasso.