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Sergio RiveraMartínez

Painter · Madrid

Sergio RiveraMartínez

Oil realism about nostalgia, the retro and the classic: the cars we dreamed of, the toys we lost, the afternoons of cartoons.

Porsche 1986 911 carrera — Oil on canvas. Mixed media, 92 × 65 cm — Porsche 1986 911 carrera

Selected work

Series

Cars
The ones that fit in the palm of your hand and the ones pinned to the bedroom wall. Cars that were toys before they were dreams, and dreams before they were memories.
Motorcycles
Mud on the tyres and petrol in the memory. Nineties motorcycles, painted the way you look at something you once longed to own.
Nostalgia
Afternoons of cartoons, the toys we no longer know where they ended up, the games that kept us up at night. Everything we were before we grew up.
Sneakers
Trainers first worn on the first day of school and worn out dreaming of the next pair. Every pair keeps a summer inside.
Native Americans
Faces looking back from another time. Portraits painted on wood, with the silence and dignity of those history could not erase.
Prints
Giclée prints, finished by hand. Artist’s proofs are one of a kind; numbered editions exist so the same memory can hang in more than one home.

About the artist

You could say I have painted since the day I was born. From the graffiti of Majadahonda to oil realism, always with nostalgia as my subject.