Antonio Lòpez

López's paintings respond to traditions that consider the polemic of autonomy through fragmentation. In their layers of pictograph and gesture, his works allow for a collapse of the categorical differentiation between the symbolic and the indexical. What's been painted, sometimes in density and at other times austerely stark, converges as strata. They're reminiscent of a gap dissolve, where one scene from a film fades into the next, and for a brief moment, the screen holds the overlay of conflated frames. But in painting, unlike cinema, little is ever coming or going, and this chimerical image is the sole remainder.

Antonio López (b. 1993, Quito, Ecuador) currently lives and works between Frankfurt am Main and Quito. His work spans across multiple media, delving into materiality and conceptual depth, often reflecting on themes of memory, identity, and spatial perception. López holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017) and an MA from Städelschule, Class Monika Baer (2024).

His recent exhibitions include “Hydra (or downtown)” at Louche Ops (Berlin, 2024); “Glower” at Larder (Los Angeles, 2023); “Flintlock” at ECHO (Köln, 2023); “Tidal” at fffriedrich (Frankfurt am Main, 2023); and “Errandt” at Rudimento (Quito, 2021) among others. His work was also exhibited at Art Basel Paris (2024).