The Artist

Lidó Rico (Yecla 1968), a central figure within the list of artists who currently investigate the human body as a place of conflict, has a long career that began more than three decades ago, thanks to which he has managed to develop his own language that can only  be thought through fully taking into account his concern for the human being and the ambiguous status of identity in contemporary society. The themes, technical means and rhetorical resources that have marked his career have outlined a constant inquiry into the ethical, aesthetic and representational regimes of the body.

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Lidó Rico's artistic production falls within a horizon in which the duality of the subject and the object, of the performative and the sculptural, is iridescent in that decisive and unbreathable moment of blindness, deafness and immobility that involves diving into the cast. This action has not only involved a process that achieves a tangible imprint, but is an essential part of the work, and in turn, poses a bold game between what remains hidden and what is shown to the viewer. Over the years, the evolution of his creative poetics has managed to incorporate new derivatives that have refined and consolidated a series of results where matter and material has always been used as the most accurate means to elucidate the meaning of existence. 

 

From the late eighties to the present, he has managed to turn his own skin into an inexhaustible blank canvas on which he translates human behaviors emanating from the disturbing contemporary reality. The plastic universe of Lidó Rico has always kept man as the epicenter of a constant search thanks to the development of concepts such as footprint, time, absence and memory, establishing in the weakness of the flesh and its status of expiration the trigger for all his work.

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