Jesús Rivera

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Jesús Rivera

Born in Ciego de Avila, Cuba. 1956
These new themes of my work , the house, or the symbolic armature of a house, rests on wheels, as does the excursion vessel. The poetic fancy of wheels sprouting where they do not belong performs a kind of the category mistake: the motility of both house and ship is wrong--- headed for a crash, a contradiction: some conceptural derailment. The red-brick skin of the home is peeled away to reveal the frightening dangers, the global violence and the threatening the surface ideals of home and security. Perhaps there is a parable here about the national home and the sacrifices to “security” we are asked to accept.

Bajando acrylic on canvas 48 x 57 in. [Work Details...]	El gran carro acrylic on Canvas 73 x 111 in. [Work Details...]	Excursion acrylic on Canvas 48 x 60 in. [Work Details...]	Paisaje Industrial acrylic on canvas 60 x 72 in. [Work Details...]
Señal oil paint and acrilic canvas 110 x 80 in. [Work Details...]	Tranquility acrylic on canvas 36 x 32 in. [Work Details...]