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ART CRITIC | BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA July 16, 2026 Returning to Colombia, coming from Alicante, in Spain, Tom\u00e1s Salazar exhibits his recent sculptural work at the Galer\u00eda Hacienda Castilla in Risaralda. His works originate from thin sheets of blued iron, cold-cut and cold-bent, employing mechanical presses and other workshop resources, to achieve wonderful expressions with perfect curves and clean angles that unfold their tensions and those that hang between the forms and the void. It is a dynamic game of planes with which he develops a technical approach that transforms into abstract art. Already in the exhibition hall, and supported by the change of light and point of view, he invites viewers to stimulate their perception in a constant dialogue with matter and space. Tom\u00e1s is an artist in development with captivating overtones of veteran experience, bold before difficult challenges, obstinate in the great value of his artistic presence; he contrasts the intuitive and subjective of solid matter to confer upon them an appearance that subjugates before the preciousness of forms. He obtains art pieces that are endowed with great aesthetic purity, so that it can be affirmed with a certain dose of sensitivity that it competes with high-quality jewelry. No different conclusion can be reached because the sinuous distinctions stand out to magnify his work, even in those where, anticipating the behavior of the metal weathering outdoors, he adds to its realization the layer of rust that is inevitable, and adds it like the patina in bronze to provide his sculptures with an immortal state. With seasons of recognition in Italy and Spain, and assimilating the Colombian abstract sculpture of Edgar Negret, Eduardo Ram\u00edrez Villamizar, and John Castles, masters who have transformed Latin American metal sculpture, which serve him as a source of inspiration to advance in the combination with great rigor of geometric forms, and in the ideas of constructivism with industrial mastery, creating these flashing pieces, of pure and angular lines. It must be for some reason that, in his sculptural advancement until now, and in a certain way, almost obliquely, connoisseurs observe a certain particular influence of Castles, a prominent reference of sculptural modernism in our country, and a bridge between the great masters and contemporary generations. 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