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Cuban artist Juan Rivero (Holguin, 1976), trained in painting, proposes with his creative process a peculiar approach to the pictorial fact. Although he uses oil painting to exorcise his ideo-aesthetic concerns on canvas, he transgresses the traditional technique. In a sort of alchemy he conceives his works that, among dense and vaporous images, build a plural landscape of the human.

As Cuban critic and curator Abram Bravo Guerra comments: “Juan Rivero's work is composed of two primordial pulsations in constant struggle: a chaotic force of violent vibrations and grotesque nuances …