Juan López DIEZ
Juan López DIEZ
update: 2011.5.1
Profile
Juan López (Cantabria, 1979, ES). Graduated in Fine Arts at Castilla-La Mancha University (Cuenca). He had shows as solo exhibitions in Carpe Diem, Lisboa; Nogueras-Banchard Gallery, Barcelona; Bellevue-Linz, Austria; La Fabrica Gallery, Madrid; Miró Fundation, Barcelona; La Casa Encendida, Madrid or Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona. And group exhibitions in National Museum of the Republic, Brasil; PCI, France; La Laboral Art Center, Gijón; Valparaiso Public Interventions, Chile; CIGE Beijing Art Fair, China; MUSAC, León; International Congress of the Spanish Language, Colombia; OK Centrum, Linz; 2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid. His work has been deserving of prizes and grants as ABC Art Pize (2010,ES), Altadis Art Prize (2007, ES) or Art Grants of Marcelino Botín Fundation (2005, ES)About works / performance
Underlying the installation and video creations of my work there is a profound interest in bringing together the lenguage arising from the street and the different artistic codes pertaining to private and institutional spheres. My productions are therefore filled with elements that make immediate references to urban spaces, such as advertising billboards, phrases as imperatives designed to attract the attention of passersby/beholders, or public furnishings.Today I aspire to nothing
Mural Intervention.
Insulated tape, vinyl and 6 videoprojections
38 meters x 3,5 meters
Joan Miró fundation
Barcelona- Spain
2009
Planetary union
Mural Intervention
Insulated tape, vinyl and wood
30 meters x 2 meters
National Museum of the Republic
Brasilia-Brasil
2010
Not a chroma key
Public space intervention
Vinyl
17 meters x 5 meters
Cáceres- Spain
2009
