Jorge Riveros

(b. 1934, Ocaña, Norte de Santander, Colombia) 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 began his artistic career as a figurative painter, as this was the dominant style of painting in Colombia at the start of his career. From 1951 to 1956 he studied at the National University, earning the titles Master in Painting and Professor of Drawing. He became increasingly fascinated in abstraction while living and working in Germany in the years 1965 to 1975. Riveros returned permanently to Colombia in 1975, with a new vision of geometric abstraction that combined the influence of Bauhaus painters with elements of indigenous art of the South American continent.