Artist Ismael Rivera explores, particularly through the use of new and unusual surfaces, the magic of everyday life. His work seeks to merely hint at an image through the creation of atmospheres generated by candid strokes and vivid colors, encouraging the viewer to address, interpret, and complete the work by themselves.

Comments: www.beatrizesguerra-art.com / Photography: José Ismael Rivera Torres / Reproduction: Courtesy of artist and Beatriz Esguerra Art / Color separation: Andros Impresores

In my work, the sensation of passing by persists obsessively, which in turn takes me to place man, generally largely dissociated from his immediate surroundings, as if silently waiting for a permanent return of the objects its histories, as if having an inkling of the end of the events that many times have not even started.

Comments: Mario Gómez Vargas / Photography: Lorenza Gómez Martínez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

As women we always have the option of blossoming. Life requires it, at times it demands it. These are proofs that appear in moments of happiness or sadness. Or simply when vital goals are met. It is for this reason that the “Eternal Feminine” cannot be the archetype of the modern woman. All this made me understand that the woman’s nude goes further than the perfectionist expressions of her forms or the vulgarization of her body.

Comments: Martha Isabel Escovar / Photography: Andrés Felipe Escobar / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

Through irregular and spontaneous tracings, I build a fluid and organic universe that escapes my own will, leaving space to a controlled fate that operates as a metaphor of life itself: I propose an intention, distribute the materials, choose the colors. …the piece acquires its own existence; grows and expands at its own rhythm developing the specificity that makes it unrepeatable.

Comments: María José Benvenuto / Photography: María José Benvenuto / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist / Color separation: Andros Impresores

I grew up in Caracas at the peak of a very singular local modernity in art and architecture, in a tropical and multicultural city full of urban art and great architecture, full of optimism and character; a city built by artists and architects working together in a single dream fuelled by a strong oil economy. I started my art studies in Caracas as I witnessed the slow dismantling and ruin of some of the city’s best institutions, buildings and urban art.

Comments: Jaime Gili / Photography: Courtesy of Jaime Gili Studio / Reproduction: Courtesy of private collection / Color separation: Andros Impresores