Jorge Riveros is one of the most important abstract geometric living artists from Colombia. Always following the golden mean or golden ratio as a mathematical and aesthetic principle, he has devoted his life to painting as a spiritual practice, as a way to elevate life and dignify reality, and as a meditative and discreet way of living.

Riveros is an intergenerational artist, difficult to classify, who does not entirely fit within the existing genealogies that describe Colombian art. Riveros belongs to a culture characterized for being singular in its conditions and diverse in its geography; rooted to its history and traditions, contradictory in its actions; dated while at the same time innovative in its methods.

To understand a painter like Riveros in this context, and to understand this part of Colombian art history, it is essential to remember that abstraction came late to the country. It arrived in the mid-1940s and thanks to the painter Marco Ospina, who would perform his work alone, facing the incomprehension, intolerance, and indifference of an excessively conservative tradition that lasted until the following decade when Edgar Negret and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar appeared.

Santiago Rueda Fajardo

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill