The Professor Uría Foundation is holding the eighth edition of its Seminar on Law and Art from 7 April to 9 June 2025. The aim of this event is to explore the intersection between art and the law, so that law professionals can better understand the world of artistic creation and its points of confluence with the law.

 

One of the most important aspects of the course is the analysis of the influence of artificial intelligence on the creation of works of art. Among the activities planned, a talk between Antonio López and Guillermo Solana stands out. The artist shared his ideas on art, his work and AI. This conversation took place on the 5th of May 2025 at the Foundation's headquarters, located at 187 Príncipe de Vergara Street in Madrid.

 

For more information, visit the Foundation's website by clicking here.

The Centre Pompidou-Metz is preparing to celebrate its 15th anniversary with an exhibition entitled "Endless Sunday. Maurizio Cattelan and the Pompidou Collection". The exhibition will be open to the public from 8 May 2025 to 2 February 2027.

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Designed as a tribute to the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the exhibition will fill all the museum's spaces, from the Forum and the Grande Nef to Gallery 1, the garden and even the rooftops. Hundreds of works from the Centre Pompidou's collection will be on display alongside forty works by the artist and co-curator of the exhibition, Maurizio Cattelan. Among the museum's works will be Antonio López's painting 'My Parents'.

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"Endless Sunday" explores the notion of Sunday, a theme with multiple social, political and aesthetic connotations, raising pressing and topical questions. For almost two years, visitors will enjoy an artistic dialogue between contemporary works and Cattelan's provocative creations.

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More information on the exhibition's website, here.

On Wednesday 30th April, the BCN FILM FEST will present the premiere of 'DIOS LO VE', a documentary that explores the life and work of architect, designer, writer and painter Oscar Tusquets. The documentary not only offers an in-depth look at Tusquets' legacy, but also features the participation of leading figures from the world of culture, including painters Miquel Barceló and Antonio López, filmmakers Isabel Coixet and Albert Serra, and writers Mario Vargas Llosa and Milena Tusquets, among others.

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The screening will take place at 18:45 at the Verdi cinema in Barcelona. For more information and to watch the trailer, visit the festival's official website: BCN FILM FEST.

The exhibition 'Unveiling Reality', which opened on the 28th of March at the Mirador del Carmen in Estepona, offers visitors an show of artworks that explore the perception and representation of the real world.

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In it, Antonio López presents some previously unseen works: Hombre de Coslada (Alfredo), espalda, perfil, frente and Frentes y perfiles, César, in which he depicts the male body. It also includes landscapes of Madrid, such as Gran Vía, 1 August, 13:00 and Gran Vía, 1 August, 13:45, in which he reflects the atmosphere and light of the city.

 

The exhibition also includes the participation of other outstanding realist artists: Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno, Francisco López, Julio López and Amalia Avia. The works of Carmen Laffón, Cristóbal Toral and José Hernández join the group, who practised a figurative art that sometimes departed from strict realism.

 

Until 20 July 2025, the public will be able to appreciate the artistic production of these artists and their different approaches to representing the world. More information on the gallery's website, here.

On 20 March, Antonio López received the 2024 Image Award of the Spanish Geographical Society. The prize recognises his work in the field of landscape and his capacity for observation, as well as his ability to capture his vision of the landscape and the human traces it leaves behind.

 

In his acceptance speech, he dedicated the award to his uncle, the painter Antonio López Torres, who introduced him to painting. He also commented on his current work: "At my age, I like what you feel, what you conquer and what you lose, and to leave a record of my feelings as an old man".

 

For more information, visit the website of the Spanish Geographical Society by clicking here.

The National Archaeological Museum has temporarily installed the painting 'Vista de Madrid (Museo Arqueológico desde calle Serrano)' (View of Madrid (Archaeological Museum from Serrano Street) by Antonio López in room 31 of its permanent exhibition.) This room narrates the museum's history, and the painting illustrates how the building and its surroundings appeared in the early 1960s.

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The BBVA Collection that owns the painting has signed a five-year deposit with the Archaeological Museum. During that time, the artwork will be exhibited in the museum exclusively for cultural purposes and to promote the work.

This painting is one of the first views of Madrid that Antonio López painted when he had not yet decided to paint reality without additions. This can be seen in some of the details of the painting, such as the couple kissing at the top of a tree. 

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For more information, visit the BBVA Collection website here. 

On 24 November, the documentary Materia en forma de Tàpies, dedicated to the Catalan painter Antonio Tàpies, premiered on TVE's Imprescindibles programme, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

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In this report directed by Marcos Hernández, various people from today's Spanish cultural world take part. Among them, the artist Antonio López, who, in addition to explaining how he first came to know his work and then the Catalan painter, explains his appreciation of Tàpies' work. 

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You can watch the documentary on Radio Televisión Española's digital platform by clicking here.

On the 16th and 17th of December, the Palacio de Colomina in Valencia will host the 20th CEU Conference on Film History and Analysis, dedicated to Melancholy and Truth in the Cinema of Víctor Erice.

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It is organised in collaboration with the Filmoteca de Valencia, where the director's four feature films to date will be screened: 'El espíritu de la colmena' (1973), 'El sur' (1983), 'El sol del membrillo' (1992) and 'Cerrar los ojos' (2023).

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On the 16th of December at 19:00 in the Palacio de Colomina, Antonio López will participate in a talk about this film with Salva Torres, director of the magazine Makma, and Begoña Siles Ojeda, director of the Luis García Berlanga Chair at the CEU UCH University.

On November 30, 2024, Professor Akira Kinoshita gave a lecture at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum in Japan entitled Two artistic trajectories of realism. Antonio López and Manuel Franquelo: On their works from the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum.

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He discussed the careers of the two Spanish figurative artists and also looked at their works in the museum's collection.

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Mr Kinoshita is a Specially Appointed Professor at the Showa Women's University in Tokyo and a member of the Advisory Board of Spanish Art at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, and has dedicated several studies to the figure of Antonio López.

The Studio of Antonio López presents the Virtual Tour of his solo exhibition in the Netherlands:
The Studio of Antonio López is pleased to announce the digitisation and creation of a virtual tour of his latest solo exhibition, held in the Netherlands between 28 January and 2 June 2024 at the Drents Museum in Assen.

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This innovative virtual tour has been developed in cooperation with Mad Pixel, a Madrid-based company specialising in virtual tours that has created numerous projects with museums in Spain and the rest of Europe. Thanks to this collaboration, visitors will be able to tour the exhibition in super-high resolution, allowing them not only to explore the space virtually but also to get close to the works of art to appreciate every detail with exceptional clarity. The technology used by The Mad Pixel allows for very powerful zooming, allowing the viewer to view the works with magnification and detail rarely accessible.

In addition, the experience includes a welcome tour with an explanatory audio, in Spanish and English and with accessible subtitles, accompanied by a visual summary of the exhibition, offering a complete and enriching immersion from anywhere in the world. Don't miss the opportunity to explore this unique exhibition in its digital format here!

On the 26th of October, a round table discussion was dedicated to the figure of the sculptor Eduardo Chillida, under the title: 'Chillida, that beautiful and explainable madness. A deep look at reality'. It was hosted by the architect Enrique Andreo, with the painter and son of Chillida, Pedro Chillida, and the painter and sculptor Antonio López as speakers.

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In this talk, which took place as part of EncuentroMadrid 2024, they discussed the figure of Chillida, not only as an artist, but also in his personal dimension and his religiosity, and how this influenced him in the creation of his work. 

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For more information, see the EcuentroMadrid website. To watch the talk, the video is available on the event's Youtube channel: here.

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Until November 24, 2024, the exhibition "The revolution of sculpture. From Dalí to Allen Jones" can be visited in the church of the Encarnación in Zamora, organized by the Fundación Obra Social de Castilla y León (FUNDOS) and the Diputación de Zamora and curated by María Toral.

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Through a selection of 39 pieces, you can trace the evolution of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries. They show the new techniques, materials and ways of creating that have emerged during that period. Among the international list of artists are works by Rodin, Julio González, Alexander Calder, Meret Oppenheim, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Gargallo, Man Ray, Antonio López, Baltasar Lobo or Allen Jones.

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More information on the Fundos website here.

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Between September 20, 2024 and January 12, 2025, the painting by Antonio López, Gran Vía, 1 de agosto, 7:30 a.m., from the Pérez Simón Collection, will be on display. The work will be on display along with sixty-nine other works chosen from the collection of the Spanish-Mexican collector in an exhibition organized by the CentroCentro exhibition hall of the Madrid City Council.

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This exhibition is a preview of the collection, which will be on display in another cultural space of the city council in the future, the Serrería Belga.

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For more information about the exhibition, click here.

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On September 12, the collective exhibition "Infinita realidad" was inaugurated in the Pedro Torrecilla exhibition hall in Burgos, organized by the Círculo Burgos Foundation and Ibercaja Banco.

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This exhibition displays paintings, drawings and sculptures by several figurative artists who began working in the 1950s and 1960s in Spain. Among them are Antonio López and María Moreno, as well as Francisco López, Isabel Quintanilla, Amalia Avia, Carmen Laffón, Julio López, Esperanza Parada, José Hernández and Cristobal Toral.

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It can be visited until November 10. For more information, click here.