Víctor López-Rua was trained in Spain and Italy, and is already, in the words of the Spanish critic Juan Manuel Bonet, one of the most particular voices in the field of Spanish figurative painting. López-Rua is committed to the thematic and compositional renewal of the eternal and incombustible language of painting, always from a perspective of investigation, search, and deepening diverse realities.
López-Rúa is qualified by the doctor in Art History and ABC critic, Francisco Carpio, as a painter-painter, that is, a painter with a trade, a trade of lights, and with the benefit of colors, space, sensitivity, and matter. His painting is linked in certain strategies to the New German Objectivity and cinema, which leads us to highlight his constant recurrence to the narrative of the presence that literature has in his plastic work, but also its high dreamlike and surreal temperature; Luis Alberto de Cuenca writes about this: “Few plastic artists exist in Spain today capable of creating pictorial spaces as loaded with disturbing strangeness as his own.”
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15/02/2023 - 30/04/2023
Víctor López-Rúa is a Spanish artist whose proposal revolves around painting, specifically, the position of representational painting today; of what can become within this convulsed planet of Contemporary Art and its unique communication with the viewer. It is an exhibition of enormous versatility, transversal in its multiple meanings and which connects with what is the core of art: its power to amaze and, at the same time, its colossal speculative power. The artist, also, has an original syntax, an innovative and unprecedented method of communicating with the public through painting and video: Stereoscopic Painting; an installation where we are conceptually bombarded and whose purpose is to trigger in the visitor a deeper examination of painting as a specific medium, its relationship with audiovisual technology and science; but also, the lucubration about the imprint of the materiality of the image, its physicality, about the mediation of the brain and the limits of vision. Thus, the exhibition seeks to provoke a different look, to show a new mode of transmission, an original moment of union in which time stands still, the passing of minutes is suspended and the spectator deepens into the instant, sinks into it: into a Vertical Instant.