Amilcar Rivera Munive

ARTIST’S STATEMENT
In my artwork I mainly focus on my characters’ inner guiding force and monologues. Apart from very rare exceptions, I do not usually work with life models. For me art is a personal need to transform my own visions, images and the situations that surround me. As a result, throughout the years I have created a series of fictional characters, both, men and women, who reflect on their human condition. They are the result of experimenting with different materials, taking a stain as the starting point and gradually letting it evolve. There is no strict order from the beginning to the end: sometimes the first strokes are lost underneath many other layers of a painting, other times they stay where they are and gain more force in the composition. I choose my work material quite impulsively, according to my necessity at the time and the circumstances. Although the technique itself is important to me, my main interest lays in the expressiveness, as my focal theme –human beings or my image of the individuals that I have met- are the ones to tell the story through their expression. As a young artist, I felt identified with expressionism; since then, consciously and subconsciously, I have been guided by this artistic style to...

2019 Sobre lo cotidiano. Galería Pamenkalnio. Vilna, Lituania
2019 Polarización. Munive arte contemporáneo. Tlaxcala, México
2018 Dibujo y pintura. Museo Universitario Casa de los Muñecos. Puebla
2017 Introspectus. Museo del Tecnológico de Monterrey. Puebla
2016 Dibujo y pintura. Galería de la Alianza Francesa, San Ángel. Ciudad de México
2015 Soñadores Galería Casa 9. Puebla
2014 Sobre lo cotidiano. Museo Universitario Casa de los Muñecos. Puebla
2013 Personajes, Galería Lazcarro. Puebla
2011 La incertidumbre del presente. Galería ADA. Barcelona
2011 Rostros. Associaciò Cultural d´Art AKA. Barcelona
2010 Humanidad. Centro Cultural “La Valentina” Barcelona
2009 Historias de viaje. BWA Studio Gallery. Wrocław, Polonia
2005 Reminiscencias. Edificio Carolino. Universidad Benemérita de Puebla