Víctor López-Rúa
(La Coruña, 1971)
Plastic artist, is formed in Spain and Italy, forks, in the words of the Spanish critic and former director of the Reina Sofía, Juan Manuel Bonet, one of the most personal voices within the field of Spanish figurative painting that focuses on thematic and compositional renewal of eternal and incombustible language of painting, always from the perspective of investigation, search and deepening of the various realities.
López-Rúa, is described by the doctor in Art History and critic of ABC, Francisco Carpio, as a painter-painter, that is to say, a painter with trade, trade lights, and with the benefit of colors, space, sensitivity and matter. His painting part of certain strategies linked to the German New Objectivity and cinema, which leads us to highlight their constant recurrence narrative, the presence that literature has in his plastic work, but also its dream-like and surreal high temperature; and about this writes Luis Alberto de Cuenca: "Few artists exist in Spain today able to create so full of uncanny as his pictorial spaces".
In 2012, and in collaboration with the company Enxebre Entertainment, he started an innovative research project on a different way of approaching painting: Stereoscopic Painting, It is exposed in the Centro León of the Dominican Republic, at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo and it is included in lecture and developed in the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid or the Royal Academy of Medicine of Galicia.
This proposal, wich places him at the point of greatest novelty in contemporary art, is presented to the contest of ideas of ARCO 2013 with Alvaro Alcazar Gallery, MAC in La Coruña, and Adora Calvo Gallery in Salamanca.
In the year 2015 the Foundation Eugenio Granell Museum, within the activities of its 20th anniversary, presents his exhibition project "The disturbing beauty".
During the 2016 and the 2017, the artist creates the artwork for the first illustrated edition of the Sonatas Valle-Inclan, whose update is performed by Luis Alberto de Cuenca.
In 2017 López-Rúa inaugurated the project Stereoscopic painting "Mental twin" at the Centro de Arte Alcobendas Madrid, being published a book-catalog that collect all your inquiries.
In 2019, starting his career in Mexico, the artist exhibits his work at the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, within a project Ardent Aura- in which, also, It acts as commissioner. In that context, You are invited to Zacatecas by Francisco Goitia Museum to show there the outlines of his artistic investigations.
From that moment, contact the Hispanic Contemporary Gallery, with presence in Madrid and Mexico, with exhibiting his work at its headquarters in Mexico City in an exhibition entitled "The landscape recovered" will run until February 2020.
In 2020 opens at Galería Trinta in Santiago de Compostela, a new project titled “El Aura que no cesa” and participates in Art Marbella and Art Madrid with Galería Hispánica.
In 2022 carries out an international exhibition project at the Research Center, Innovation and Development of the Arts of Monterrey (Selection) and the corresponding catalog is edited. Also that year he participated in the Dallas art fair with the Project H Gallery.
In 2023 inaugurates, in the context of the MACO fair, the exhibition “El Instante Vertical” at the Proyecto H gallery in Mexico City and the “Aura al Sur” exhibition with the Enblanco Art gallery in San José del Cabo, which represents him in Baja California Sur..