
Peligro
2019
Peligro, completed in 2019, draws viewers into an intimate encounter with Kenny Rivero's layered visual language, rendered through the technically demanding process of etching with Chine Collé. The word "peligro," meaning danger in Spanish, carries a quiet charge that infuses the work with psychological weight, suggesting threshold states and the precarious negotiations of identity that run throughout Rivero's practice. The Chine Collé technique, in which thin, often colored paper is bonded to the plate and transferred during printing, introduces subtle textural contrasts and warmth that distinguish this print from conventional etching, lending the surface a delicate, skin-like quality that rewards close attention. Rivero, a Dominican-American artist whose work frequently explores diaspora, intimacy, and the poetics of everyday life, brings a deeply personal sensibility to printmaking as a medium. This work exists as an Artist's Proof from an edition of seven, a designation historically reserved for the artist's own reference impressions and therefore among the most closely held examples from any given print run. Signed by the artist, it carries the documentary integrity that collectors prize in limited-edition works on paper. Offered through the Food Bank For New York City Benefit Auction, acquiring Peligro connects a collector both to a significant moment in Rivero's evolving body of work and to a meaningful act of community support. At 57.8 by 50.8 centimeters, the composition holds considerable presence, whether stored as a collectible work on paper or presented under glass in a considered frame of the collector's choosing.
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- Etching with Chine Collé
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- Signed
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