David López Ribes

David Lopez Ribes (born June 27, 1972 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish painter and multidisciplinary artist. He lives and works in Valencia.

Art is revelation, 2007

His studies took place at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV between 1991 and 1995, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City during 2003.

David Lopez Ribes is the winner of the Pontifical Academies Prize 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, for his contribution to Christian Humanism on the contemporary.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Overview

David Lopez´s work is mainly pictorial, partly heir of informalism. However, as of the year 2000 he develops New Media (video, sculpture and installation). They are spiritual and transcendental works, which are clearly influenced by his personal life. Through painting, sculpture and video art projected onto real objects, he addresses issues such as: father, sacrifice, gift, transit and kingdom, in the content of his work and also has a constant preoccupation for using media as a means to dialogue with the secular man. Creating connections between Contemporary Culture and Faith.

David Lopez Ribes video installations are designed to cause reflection on perception while at the same time reconsidering video as a medium in itself. They are images that want to be here with us out of the boundaries of the 'frame' and into real life images projected on real objects on the same action performed. They are multimedia installations that blur the boundary between the tangible and the transcendental. The nostalgia of harmony, the rejection of subjectivism, and liturgies of everyday life as an expression of moral integrity, are his cross-cutting themes. His work is present in public and private collections nationally and internationally.

Bath 2012, Caceres

David Lopez is awarded with the Young Art Prize 96 from IVAJ (Valencian Youth Institute) in 1997, and has held art exhibits in the Palau de la Musica (The Music Palace) in Valencia, in the House of Culture of Castellón and Alicante´s 14 Center, among others. That summer he worked with painter Antonio Lopez. In August 1997 he moved to Paris, where he lived until 2000, a period in which he helped manage Cultural Affairs of the Instituto Cervantes in Paris and made his first solo exhibits in France. He also began his relationship with the Japanese Nichido Gallery, where he continuously exhibits artwork, both individual and collective.

In 2001, art exhibit at Charpa Gallery, Valencia. In 2002, he received the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Generalitat Valenciana and thus traveled to New York in 2003, for a New Media Master´s at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2004,art exhibit at Edgar Neville Gallery in Valencia, commissioned by the painter José Sanleón, and director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM Consuelo Ciscar.

In 2008, winner of the X National Painting Prize Milagros Mir. In 2011, another art exhibit in Valencia at the Palau de la Música.[7] In the same year he participates in the exhibit Art + Fe' at the Pons Foundation in Madrid, within the official program of the World Youth Day 2011. This exhibit has been presented at the Cultural Institute The Brocense, in Caceres, Lisbon and is now coming to Castellon and Valencia. Lopez gives the inaugural speech. His artwork is present in public and private collections at a national and international level.

From 1999, David Lopez, along with the Spanish painter Kiko Argüello and an international team of painters, develop a New Aesthetic for the Catholic Church in seminaries, churches and liturgical spaces worldwide.

  • 2012 Brasilia, Brazil, Shanghai, China
  • 2011 Madrid and Valencia, Spain
  • 2010 New Jersey US, Shanghai China, Managua Nicaragua, Valencia Spain,
  • 2009 Rome Italy, Warsaw Poland, Valencia Spain
  • 2008 Macerata, Italy
  • 2007 Strasbourg France, Rome Italy
  • 2006 Perugia Italy,
  • 2005 Strasbourg France, Berlin Germany, Murcia Spain
  • 2004 Catedral de la Almudena Madrid Spain
  • 2003 Domus Galilea Israel
  • 2001 Madrid
  • 2000 Oulu Finland
  • 1999 Piacenza Italy

Selected exhibitions
  • 1995 Sala de Exposiciones de la Universidad Politécnica Valencia
  • 1997 Palau de la Música Valencia, Casa Cultura Castellón y Centro 14 Alicante
  • 1998 Colegio de España París
  • 1999 Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid and Galerie Bernanos París
  • 2000 Sala Parpallo, Museo de la Beneficencia and Estación del Norte Valencia
  • 2001 Galerie Nichido París
  • 2002 Galería Charpa Valencia, Museo de la Ciudad Valencia and Museo de la Ciudad Madrid
  • 2003 Galerie Nichido París
  • 2004 Galería Edgar Neville Valencia.
  • 2005 Museo de Arte Moderno Valencia IVAM and Galería Gabernia Valencia
  • 2007 Galerie Nichido París
  • 2009 Museo A Mir Valencia and Galerie Nichido París
  • 2010 Marion Meyer Gallery California and Galerie Nichido París
  • 2011 Palau de la Musica Valencia, Fundacion Pons Madrid
  • 2012 Centro Cultural El Brocense Caceres, Lisboa and Castellon .

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-04. Retrieved 2012-12-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.sydneycatholic.org/news/latest_news/2012/20121218_41.shtml
  3. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/artist-praises-family-as-he-receives-vatican-award/
  4. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=122650
  5. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=122666
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2012-12-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.zenit.org/article-36063?l=english%5B%5D
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