Julián Cerón Bolaños

His figures are slim and dynamic and seem to aspire to be the antithesis of Botero’s works, with his ants made from a single piece of material particularly famous. But why ants? According to Cerón, “they don’t think, they just act. I have learnt from them and observed them since I was a child, how they behave as one.”Since then, throughout his career Cerón has worked with a variety of materials ranging from wire, wood, clay, resin, fibreglass, stone, glass, polyester resin and liquid plastic, displaying works in locations as diverse as Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, Martinique, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and Japan. His oeuvre encompasses works miniature in size to pieces of over seven meters.