The work of Juan Ricardo Mejía lies at a point of convergence between architecture, urbanism, and contemporary sculpture. His practice, marked by a rigorous engagement with space, geometry, and materiality, offers a reflection on how we inhabit and perceive form in our everyday environments. Through a visual vocabulary that dialogues with Latin American geometric abstraction, the artist proposes an aesthetic experience in which three-dimensionality becomes a field of poetic and critical exploration.
“Constructive Geometries” is an exhibition organized by the Campus Cultural initiative at Universidad de La Sabana, with the support of Casa Zirio Gallery, presented at the Ad Portas building in parallel with ArtBo 2025. The show establishes a meeting point between art and architecture, where seventeen sculptures integrate with the space to enhance the experience of passersby and spectators, generating new connections between form, material, and urban memory. The sculptures—crafted in cut and folded steel with electrostatic paint, as well as in acrylic, cement, and wood—reveal the artist’s visual alphabet: a system of geometric codes that produce rhythm, establish tension, and balance sobriety with exuberance. In this series, dark-toned surfaces predominate, interrupted by accents of color that pierce the materiality, reminding us that within geometric order, surprise also dwells.
About the Artist
Juan Ricardo Mejía Botero (Medellín, 1965) was trained as an architect and urban planner, a path that decisively shaped his transition toward sculpture. His work translates the experience of the city and of inhabiting space into three-dimensional forms that contain both the poetics of space and the tensions of contemporary life. Each piece—whether a freestanding sculpture or a wall relief—reflects his interest in exploring urban dynamics through a geometry that is clear, dynamic, and rigorous.
His artistic research is rooted in the 20th-century abstract tradition in Colombia, heir to masters such as Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Omar Rayo, and in dialogue with international references like Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesús Soto, and minimalist figures such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd. Nevertheless, his practice has evolved into a distinct visual language, integrating materials such as steel, cement, wood, and acrylic in a singular way.
He has exhibited in Colombia, the United States, Switzerland, Panama, Spain, and Peru, and his work is part of several institutional collections in Colombia, consolidating his position as one of the most consistent voices in contemporary Latin American sculpture.
“Constructive Geometries” will be open to the public in the lobby of the Ad Portas building at Universidad de La Sabana until October 20, 2025, offering a space for encounter between art, architecture, and everyday life.
