Jorge Riveros: Postponed Dreams

The Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota presents "Jorge Riveros: Postponed Dreams," an exhibition consisting of paintings and sculptures by the Colombian artist that were conceived and sketched during the 1960s and 1970s. Most of these works were completed during the 1990s and they were rendered as geometric abstractions.

According to the curator of the exhibition, Eduardo Serrano, "… it is important to clarify that while some of his early works were, as it can be expected, figurative—an artistic approach that Riveros taught in several institutions in Bogota—since before his trip to Germany he was already thinking about abstract painting as something that attracted his attention; as it did with many other Colombian artists through the books published by Editorial Skira, one of the few accessible publications with reproductions whose quality was pretty good for the time. Thus, it is not strange that this attraction toward abstraction would lead Riveros to become interested in the work of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García, pioneer of a singular way of constructivism in Latin America; or that he devoured with great interest Torres-García's vast and influential book titled El Universalismo Constructivo (Constructive Universalism), which provided the Colombian artist with the first conceptual arguments about abstract art…"

The exhibition will be open to the public in the top exhibition rooms of the museum from July 23 – August 31, 2015.