Ricardo Winitzky

Ricardo Winitzky was born in Argentina in 1955 and lived in Lima, Peru, from the age of 21.

He studied with Cristina Gálvez, a renowned Peruvian sculptor considered by many critics to be a leading figure in modern sculpture.
The classes at Cristina's home-studio shared a common denominator, combining technical rigor and the promotion of creative freedom, focusing on the rigorous learning of figure drawing (1978-1983).
From 1983 to 1985, he studied at the Art Student League of New York, returning to Peru where he took watercolor classes with Juani Pastorelli and painting with Leslie Lee, one of the most representative visual artists of the 1960s generation and a beloved mentor to younger painters.
After managing the most successful advertising agency during the 1990s, he returned to Argentina in 2002 and continued to teach himself painting. In 2003/2005, he took classes at Juan Doffo's studio. Between 2006 and 2011, he continued drawing and painting the human figure at the Fine Arts School with Eduardo Pesce and Ariel Mlynarzewicz.
He masterfully handles various techniques such as pencil, ink, pastel, acrylic, and oil, and his themes address the human figure in different ways. Whether as a continuous exercise in "letting go," with 3- or 4-minute works, a challenge to appropriate the synthesis of the figure, or with more el...