Pedro Ruiz Colombia, b. 1957

INVISIBLE TERRITORIES This exhibition brings together prominent Colombian artists who, through diverse techniques and visual languages, explore the human condition, memory, identity, and the relationship with nature-reflecting the cultural richness...

PERSONAL BOTANY A Tribute to Botanical Intimacy The exhibition 'Personal Botany,' like much of Pedro Ruiz's work, aims to present the plant kingdom not only as a visual spectacle but...

Newly arrived and available for sale, recent works by: Pedro Ruiz Carlos Nariño Santiago Uribe-Holguín Carolina Convers Armando Castro-Uribe Angelica Chavarro Luis Luna Contact the gallery for more information: be@beatrizesguerra-art.com

WE ARE BLUE Group Show Works by Carlos Alarcón, Angélica Chavarro, Carolina Convers, Luis Luna, Catalina Prado, Ismael Rivera, Pedro Ruiz, and Jerónimo Villa. Blue is a polysemic color: it...

Beatriz Esguerra Art is proud to present “Processes,” a journey through Pedro Ruiz’s series and his evolution as an artist. Pedro Ruiz's work occupies itself with social and political issues...

Insignia is a group show with works that encompass Beatriz Esguerra Art's particular style. One of the characteristics that stands out is an atmospheric feel. All the works featured in...

This new year brings a refreshing wave of artists and works to our gallery. Beatriz Esguerra Art is pleased to present a group show that will open this Saturday, 8th...

In his upcoming exhibition, Pedro Ruiz addresses the issue of a possible reconcilement with our natural habitat through a poetic manifestation. The artist seeks to encourage the public to present...

Resorting to commonplace symbols, such as the image of a heart to represent love, can seem a risky practice in circles where originality, intellectual sophistication, and demand for innovation are considered an imperative. However, in this case and taking into consideration the humorous side, this idea could achieve a deeper meaning. Rather than be perceived as a mistake, it could be perceived as the representation of a general feeling that has evidently ceased to be taken into wide consideration as a general principle.

“Love is the only survival mechanism.”

Throughout history we have been guided by our knowledge, our reasoning, our respected intellectual faculties, which provide us with the ability to differentiate right from wrong, truth from untruth. Nevertheless, harmony does not seem to be the norm, and not just within our society; our overall relationship with nature and with the planet itself seems to be discordant.

Judging by the results, one can only arrive at the same conclusion as that of a meticulous observer of our nature:

“magis magnos clericos non sunt magis magnos sapientes”.

One can believe that the path of permanent progress is the right one, if we agree with the idea that competing, subjecting, slaughtering, deceiving, and stealing are occurrences demanded by the common good. Many theories seem to support a system where there is only room for the strongest. However, other models we can use as paradigms are also in place: societies where the need to possess, turning us into unconscious predators, loses every trace of reasonability vis-à-vis an attitude of permanent cooperation.

Some populations, for instance, offer guidelines to real democracy where decisions are not made based on a consensus of the majority, but when the group as a whole is in agreement. Nature itself is a source of ideas: bees, ants and even domesticated dogs exhibit behaviors that do not abide by the law of the survival of the fittest.

Some years ago I ran into a concept I had never considered before; the idea that one could think with one’s heart was absolutely unknown to me. In an excerpt of his conversation with Chief Mountain Lake, a Pueblo Indian, Carl Gustav Jung narrates their talk during which the Chief describes white people. The conclusion of this brief interaction is that white people must be crazy because they say they think with their heads. At Jung’s astonishment, Mountain Lake stated that his people think with their hearts.

It is not only possible to think with one’s heart, but we actually do it constantly. The heart can also think, make decisions, and moreover, it has the ability to make us feel the truth. This is why in all honesty, in an intuitive manner, and moved only by the joy it can bring me – with no specific objective – I dare to suggest these images as a representation of love. Obviously, love being understood as an energy field capable of generating harmony, actual compassion, and solidarity.

“Il amor che move il sole e l‘altre stelle”.

Pedro Ruiz