Ernesto Burgos

Born in 1979 in Santa Clara (California), Ernesto Burgos, who raised in Chile, lives and works in New York. His sculptural works are influenced by the abstract expressionist tendencies of the 1950s, characterized by large forms and the manipulation of raw materials. Burgos uses ordinary materials such as cardboard, fiberglass and resin, undergoing a meticulous process of folding, tearing, cutting and gluing, guided partly by intuition and partly by the nature of the materials themselves. The artist is fascinated by objects in the process of transformation, and insists that the process remains visible in the final piece.