Juan Rivero
Bullfighter at rest II / Torero en reposo II
The only way to access the intense pictorial atmosphere of this series is to be free from the constraints of gender roles. The exuberance of color and the meandering of the lines invite the viewer to recognize himself as a mature individual who fulminates the social conventions of behavior, submitting him to primal hedonism and transforming it into sound or aroma, into possible image or buried emotion. It is through the hatching of the feminine essence that the masculine element shows its courageous openness, keeping individualities strong and achieving a mutual and egalitarian enjoyment. It is necessary to abandon oneself to this influx of art without resistance.