Adriana Rivas

La búsqueda Oleo s/ tela 80 x 100 cm 2003	La Purificación Oleo 100 x 100 cm 2003	Si esta con ángeles Oleo 90 x 100 cm 2004	La Ofrenda Oleo 70 x 100 cm 2003

Solitude, nostalgia of some earth chosen in dreams, certainty to be in the world to give testimony of all and each one of its gifts. Such the distinctive characteristics of the painting of Adriana Rivas, whose design, of rare perfection, is happily united with a cushioned trowel, which murmurs the color as a concrete but also transparent presence, specially in original compositions, affirming so the truth that the brush does not paint so much what is saw, but which with an artistic effort won't take long in pronouncing itself.

César Magrini. Buenos Aires, 2003

Suggestive, mysterious and disquieting compositions those that this
singular and valuable artist transcribes in the canvas, far away her painting from the
regular and conventional: she tries and she gets to catch
emptiness, and fits it through stairways, frontispieces, rooms, corridors, constructions, all
of them solid but that at the same time seeming to escape from
which they want to lock up, even dreams, feelings and hopes that are translated by her
hands into axes of a concrete and sonorous spell,
which always impresses beyond structures thar are ready to fly away.

César Magrini, writer and art critic. Buenos Aires, Springtime, 2003

Serene, almost otherworldly, mysterious. Iyrical, vaguely disturbing, are terms that come to find when looking at the paintings that Adriana Rivas is exhibition in Forma (Aráoz 2540). Human presence is implied, not seen, for what the artist depicts is structures built by man. They are stairs, archways, corridors, courtyards, parts of massive, simple buildings, all bathed in glowing, golden light. The strains of Gregorian chant seem to resound everywhere. More intriguing is the symbolic setting of several religious elements suspended in mid air, in gently diverging perspectives. In some of these pictures the presence of pearl-like spheres adds a slightly dynamic presence to the static massiveness of the surroundings, which, in a couple of is softened by delicate plants and twigs, thus suggesting even more the unseen presence of people. That effect is stressed in the corner of one of the painting (La búsqueda - The Search), in which a thin shadow timidly emerges like shy spirit.

Alfredo Cernadas, For the herald