Amlcar River M

Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting - Quatros Mujeres

2022

Amílcar Rivera Munive (b. 1975, Mexico City) is a visual thinker and multidisciplinary artist. Mexican-born, currently based in Vilnius, Amilcar studied at the University of Veracruz and further pursued literature (SOGEM; screenwriting at EICTV, Cuba) and photography (Escuela Activa de Fotografía). Having lived in several countries, Rivera has exhibited in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, the USA, Germany, Spain and Mexico. His works are held in the collection of the Chiang Mai Art Museum (Thailand) as well as in private collections worldwide. Amílcar Rivera M.’s works depict silent figures with closed eyes, deeply immersed within themselves: inhabitants of this utopian space. Each figure in his paintings appears as an isolated presence in a timeless, undefined space, inviting the viewer to look closer, to study its face and features. Suspended in vast, colour-soaked planes, the figures seem to be waiting, carefully positioned by the artist on the canvas. Yet they resemble fragile toy-like characters, wandering from one painting to another — without beginning or end. Observing Rivera’s works, one inevitably identifies with these Kafkaesque characters, compelled to re-examine the authenticity of one’s own existence.