Born in 1985 in Bettembourg in Luxemburg and currently lives in Santiago de Chile, his mother country. Since 2010 the artist has seen his style grow to use a more than original medium: masking tape. Like a surgeon, he operates his works with a scalpel, cutting characters with precision to examine this symptom of light that is shadow. The iconographic universe of the artist lies in the search for beauty extricated from everyday life, “snatching its epic side from life” to quote Baudelaire, and this with a few means. Carlos Rivera understands his creations as spectra, “fantasms” to be related to the Spanish translation.

 

Carlos Rivera, S’envoler: N°6, 2013, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 38 x 48 cm.

 

Carlos Rivera, S’envoler: N°9, 2013, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 38 x 48 cm.
Carlos Rivera, S' envoler: N°16, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 17,5 x 27,4 cm.
Carlos Rivera, S’envoler: N°16, 2013, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 17,5 x 27,4 cm.
Carlos Rivera, S' envoler: N°10, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 26 x 36,1 cm.
Carlos Rivera, S’ envoler: N°10, 2013, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 26 x 36,1 cm.

 

Carlos Rivera, Sea Como Sea, 2013, adhesive paper (masking tape) on canvas, light box, 60 x 85 cm.

Carlos Rivera, Visiblidad Suspendia, Installation, 2019, 23 backlit works 16 pieces of variable dimensions, canvas, adhesive tape, LED lights, aluminum frame, 27 cm x 15 cm.
Carlos Rivera, Visiblidad Suspendia, 2019, canvas, adhesive tape, LED lights, aluminum frame, 27 cm x 15 cm.
Carlos Rivera, Estrellas Rojas, 2018, toile
Carlos Rivera, Es Como Si Non Existieramos, 2019-2020, adhesive tape, glass, black cardboard, aluminum frame, 78 x 20,5 cm.
Carlos Rivera, Doble Filo, 2019-2020, Black lacquered MDF wood board, surgical knives, magnetic grid, 2 pieces, 66,5 x 49,5 cm.