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Ricardo Juárez is an artist from Pergamino, Argentina, where he founded the Rancagua School. He participated in the Florence Biennale in 2011 and 2013, and on the latter occasion won the first “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award for painting. Since 2015, he has been a member of the International Selection Committee of the Florence Biennale. He studied at the Pergamino Municipal School of Fine Arts and won scholarships with important local artists during his training. He has exhibited in Latin America and Europe. He prefers oil painting, a technique that allows him to experiment with textures and colours, always generating new effects. His works have nature and its relationship with man as their main theme, drawing inspiration from his home town, Rancagua, in the province of Buenos Aires, which is distinguished by its landscape of vast plains, fields and countless colours in the earth and sky. This everyday landscape offers the artist moments of deep reflection that are manifested in his paintings. In virtue of this homage to his homeland, Juárez founded the School of Rancagua, to which some of the artists exhibiting with him at the XIV Florence Biennale belong.

Jorge Costa is part of the Rancagua School and participated in the Florence Biennale in 2017. He has exhibited his works in group exhibitions including the Buenos Aires Biennial (2016, 2018, 2022) also receiving some special mentions and on several occasions in Pergamino, in the Rancagua Painters' Meetings and at the Menéndez Library in 2018 with 40 works. He also painted the Christ of San Damián for the parish of Luján, Pergamino.

Judith Silva is a student of the School of Rancagua where she studied for many years with Ricardo Juárez. She participated in the Florence Biennale in 2019, in numerous group exhibitions including at the Centro Cultural Borges (2019) and in the Rancagua Painters' Meetings (2019, 2022). He has also exhibited his work in Argentine and Spanish galleries such as Galeria Nerja (2018), Galería Arenales (2019), Juana de Arte (2019) and Galeria de Arte Palermo (2019).

Laura Castro has been a member of the School of Rancagua since 2009 and has participated in group exhibitions in Pergamino, including at the House of Culture (2009, 2010, 2014), the Sociedad Rural (2014) and the Arte Mas space (2019), as well as the Rancagua Painters' Meetings (2010, 2013, 2015). She has received special mentions on several occasions and in 2013 one of her works was selected to be exhibited at the Municipal Museum of Pergamino.