Antonio Lopez

Antonio López - Landscapes

Biografía del Artista: Spanish realism is written with its own name, that of Antonio López (1936), one of the most important contemporary artists in the history of our art. His production includes elements of different artistic currents, such as cubism or surrealism. However, from the 60s onwards he left the dreamlike behind to develop a more objective approach. His works are an autobiography that range from the pictorial to the sculptural.

Antonio López paints his life in this exclusive ARTIKA edition: the author shows the most relevant scenes, works and people of his career and reveals his inner self through his way of capturing the outside world. He evokes thoughts, experiences and emotions, sharing his story and his inspiration through the art of those who were his greatest influences. In this way, Landscapes becomes his most personal artist's book and, at the same time, his most intimate portrait. Antonio López has been involved in all phases of the project: in addition to signing the 2,998 copies, he himself handcrafted his own model of this edition. He chose the images from his paintings and drawings and hand-wrote his memories and reflections, as well as providing images from his personal archive. The result is a living work, structured like a personal diary, which covers his entire creative and life journey. Landscapes covers a century of art and life: it begins in 1917 with the work of his uncle, Antonio López Torres, and later, it is his wife, María Moreno, also a painter, who takes center stage. Chronologically, López shows everything from his formative years and first paintings, through some of the notable moments surrounding his artistic creation, to the urban scenes that have made him famous and the paintings he is still working on. His writings are the key to accessing his private world, and in the pages of this work we have the privilege of hearing the painter in the first person. No edition, until now, had achieved this perfect union between the work and the artist's voice. The cover of the Art Book, printed on canvas, shows the work Gran Vía, 1st August, 7:30 am, 2009-2015. The back cover is a detail of the same painting. The set includes Roses, an exclusive giclée print in a numbered edition, created especially for this edition. These are flowers that Antonio López painted during the lockdown. Landscapes is presented in an exclusively designed display case, which recreates the window from which the artist captured the scene on the cover of the Art Book. A place where López went for years, on the same day, at the same time, to capture the light and the image of his many times painted Gran Vía. The design of the case, which contains the name of the work and the artist in relief, offers various options for displaying it, depending on whether you want to enjoy the giclée print, the Art Book or both at the same time.