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Ramón Rivas

Lives and works in Ciudad Real, Spain
www.rivismo.com | ramonrivas-rivismo.blogspot.com

Art commentary by poetess and writer Victoria Dragone, on the Windows open to cosmic flights, landscapes of multiple gears
work of Ramón Rivas and his work through Rivismo tight between large root-arteries, eyes of insects surprised
Ramón Rivas’s Rivismo is a mechanistic code in which the cultural in an unstructured way but of even numbers to suggest the

and scientific treasures of humanity have been united in ”pills” of perfection of recomposition, toothed wheels, arrows pointing
real and surreal geometric shapes, a weaving of surrealist art in towards an irregular shape, organic mutations of the egg cell,
which intense connections predominate, in a vacui horror to be laces, pulleys, metal plates, mathematical formulas, essential
interpreted. The messages are multiple and complex; Linear or symbols marked on the material.
apparently chaotic combinations form images of clockwork gears A rich arsenal of images that can be framed in a key to

or mechanical structures with their own symmetry, a functional interpretation with two interpretations that meet and converge:
balance that alludes to the interdependence and functionality spirals, cobwebs and spheres that by their nature maintain
of organisms as perfect as in nature itself. rhythmicity and balance; then shells and anthropomorphic and

Being is a Communicador conceived as a modern Vitruvian zoomorphic subjects (human faces, fish-birds) with divided,
man placed between the earth and the cosmos, in a semi-oval equal, similar, ”fractal” symmetries in Fibonacci succession,
concave shape, with his feet resting on the curvature of the equal and repeatable numerical expressions that conclude the
earth and surrounded by elements of universal symbolism. The idea of order and design that are not at all random.
silhouette is allegorical: a naked body, with anatomical parts I want to focus on the painting Experience of inhabiting

in evidence, ends at the top in a geometric lyre, a symbol of the cosmos, a kind of matryoshka in which man seems to
rigidity of the soul. The head is animalistic, of goat, beauty and suffer from spatial limits framed in the ”box” of his universe
evil, from which insect antennas emerge, radar with information between the metal walls of the cosmos that surrounds him,

bubbles, hinting at the demonic conversion to technicalization; an enclosure in which he remains immobile and awkward, a
from the shoulders open lanceolate wings, lamellae that have condemnation of isolation that implies the limitless forces of
the aggressiveness of lurking swords. technology.
Rivas’s compositions have tone of steel coldness, sharp, gray In the painting Doves of Hope, the conquests of the human
geometries that shine like edged weapons but with a precise mind are symbolically marked on the bodies and wings of the

symmetry and a balance of perfect material parity; dominate birds in a flight inserted in compact and orderly lines on the
the cube, the circle, the sphere, starry clusters like prickly horns. blue background of the sky.
The chromatic impact is enhanced by the figurative elements Ramòn Rivas, initiator of the artistic movement Rivismo

that embellish and warm the metallic atmosphere: a pupil of proposes a creative act that ”reviews” with awareness the
mechanisms of development of the human genius, respecting
splendid blue, a giant iridescent red beetle, the hands of a clock,
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS the stylized birds, the concentric circles of a brilliant blue for a a pre-established order from the genetic code of things, as
reordered assemblages according to determinism intrinsic to
terrified face, distorted by a cry that reveals a challenging yellow
animate or inanimate matter. (Victoria Dragone)
tongue in the abyss of the throat.

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