Jorge Jiménez Martínez, alias Deredia, was born in Heredia, Costa Rica, in 1954.
He began his activity as a sculptor in the 70s by creating works that highlight both the development of organic forms modified by the environment, gravity and growth, both influences of pre-Columbian art.
At the age of 22, he moved to Italy where he began working marble and bronze.
The intuition of a globalizing vision of being and of the universe is strengthened thanks to the restoration of the Costa Rican culture, and in particular of the pre-Columbian spheres of the ancient Borucas that become a constant source of inspiration in his works.