Amilcar Rivera M.

Figurative Acrylic Painting, Contemporary Art, Human Figures

2026

Amílcar Rivera Munive (b. 1975, Mexico City) is a visual artist and graduate of the University of Veracruz. With a background in literature (SOGEM, EICTV Cuba) and photography (Escuela Activa de Fotografía), his multidisciplinary approach is shaped by experiences living in various countries. His works, which explore characters and scenes inspired by his surroundings and material experimentation, have been exhibited internationally in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, the United States, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Lithuania, where he currently resides. In 2019, he founded Munive Arte Contemporáneo in Tlaxcala, Mexico. His works are included in the collection of the Museum of Art in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and private collections worldwide. Rivera Munive’s first solo show in Europe was held at Contour Art Gallery, Vilnius, in September 2025. The exhibition titled "Utopia of TOLINA" featured paintings and drawings inspired by the imagination of the artist’s five-year-old son, who created a constantly shifting city - a refuge of hope in turbulent times. Amílcar Rivera M.’s works depict silent figures with closed eyes, deeply immersed within themselves: inhabitants of this utopian space. Tolina reflects the human need to imagine a better place and to believe in the possibility of change. Each figure in his paintings appears as an isolated presence in a timeless, undefined space, inviting the viewer to look closer, to study its face and features. Suspended in vast, colour-soaked planes, the figures seem to be waiting, carefully positioned by the artist on the canvas. Yet they resemble fragile toy-like characters, wandering from one painting to another - without beginning or end. Observing Rivera’s works, one inevitably identifies with these Kafkaesque characters, compelled to re-examine the authenticity of one’s own existence. The exhibition title also carries a scientific resonance: “tholins” are complex organic molecules found in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. This dual meaning symbolises the connection between play and reality, between intimacy and universal experience.