News 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. ​ 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. ​ It can be visited until November 10. For more information, click here . The España Creativa Association in collaboration with the Medina de Rioseco City Council, the Junta de Castilla y León, and the Ministry of Ecological Transition are organizing the Water Landscape Painting and Nature Painting Workshops within the framework of the "Water, Art and Life. Canal de Castilla" Program. The workshops will take place in the Medina Seco dock between October 7 and 11, 2024. Nature Painting will be taught by Antonio López and Jorge Abbad, and Water Landscape by José María Mezquita. These three artists will select a maximum of 30 participants. ​ The registration period ends next Monday, September 9. Those interested must complete the registration form available on the Creative Spain website, which can be accessed at the following link: https://www.espanacreativa.es/taller-pintura.html In June 2024, Antonio López received two awards for his artistic work. The first was the award given by ADN Forum at the National Archaeological Museum on the 4th, which recognized not only his career but also what his work has contributed to Madrid city. It coincides with the fact that the view he painted between 1961 and 1962 of the façade of the archaeological museum, View of Madrid (Archaeological Museum from Serrano Street), is being exhibited in the Archaeological Museum on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of its building. In addition to his recognition, the rest of the prizes were awarded for archaeological research work (Palarq Foundation), cultural restoration (Iberdrola Foundation), and conservation and rehabilitation of cultural heritage (the Puerta de Alcalá by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain). More information here . ​ On the other hand, on June 6, the XL Weekly 2024 Prize for Creation was presented to him at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, honouring his entire artistic career and dedication since he was 13. The rest of this year's winners are the doctor Valentín Fuster, the philosopher Adela Cortina and the producer Paco Arango. The jury recognized that the four winners' work enriches society through their contributions. For more information, read the news in the following link, clicking here . On the occasion of the first solo exhibition of Antonio López in the Netherlands at the Drents Museum in Assen, "Antonio López. Master of Spanish Realism" (January 28-June 2, 2024), the Cervantes Institute of Utrecht has created a parallel program of activities. Through this program, visitors will be able to discover additional perspectives on the artist's work and expand their knowledge about his work. From the Antonio López Studio, we want to thank the work carried out by the Director of the Cervantes Institute of Utrecht, Alberto Gascón Gonzalo, who has promoted this complete program that includes talks, documentaries and showings of the film El sol del membrillo. Visit the website of the complete program of activities by clicking here for more information. As part of the exhibition "Antonio López and the Masters of Spanish Realism", organized by the Cervantes Library in Shanghai, dependent on the Spanish Consulate in China, and coinciding with a visit to the country by the Director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, the Primary students from the Beishuiwan Experimental School took part in the closing event of the exhibition on April 19. ​ This event has been part of the activities created around the exhibition of reproductions of paintings and drawings by several Spanish figurative artists that opened in the Shanghai metro last November 2023 and that included the so-called realists of Madrid, among whom is Antonio López. The exhibition will continue its journey through the country, travelling to other cities. The Cultural Office of the Spanish Consulate in Shanghai generated both the exhibition and the activities around it. From the Studio of Antonio López and María Moreno, we want to thank the work carried out by its Director, Inmaculada González Puy. An exhibition has been inaugurated at the Royal Palace of Madrid to commemorate 50 years of bilateral relations between China and Spain, which will remain open until May 26, 2024. It is an exhibition of figurative works by 99 contemporary Chinese and Spanish artists called "Beyond Realism. Figurative art of China and Spain".​ ​ These paintings offer a panorama of figurative art, not simply realism, practised in both countries over the last fifty years.​ The first of the exhibition rooms shows paintings and drawings by Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, María Moreno, Julio López, Amalia Avia, Isabel Baquedano and Carmen Laffón.​ ​ It is a fine opportunity to learn about contemporary art practised by artists from both countries and discover their parallels and differences. ​ Click here for more information about this exhibition on the National Heritage website. The painting by Antonio López, View of Madrid (Archaeological Museum from Serrano Street), from the BBVA Collection, is the invited work to celebrate ten years of renovation of the Madrid Archaeological Museum building. This view is displayed in the so-called ZERO Showcase, which explains the museum's history along with other objects and artworks. ​ This painting shows the building and its surroundings between 1961 and 1962. It has rarely been exhibited, so it is an excellent chance to see it until July 16th. ​ ​More information on the museum website by clicking here . On March 15, 2024, the first museum devoted to Contemporary Spanish Realist art, the MUREC, was inaugurated. It is located in the city of Almería, occupying the Hospital de Santa María Magdalena, a 16th-century building restored for this project. ​ It has a permanent collection from the Ibáñez Cosentino Museum in Olula del Río, with realistic works from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. The collections have been completed by loan works from various artists and collectors, showing a complete panorama of contemporary Spanish realist art. ​ One of the museum's rooms is devoted to Antonio López and the realist masters of Madrid: Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, María Moreno, Julio López, Amalia Avia and Esperanza Parada. ​ This museum has been created thanks to the impulse of the painter Andrés García Ibáñez, who together with the Ibáñez Cosentino Foundation, has founded other museums in Almería capital and province focused on figurative and realistic art, especially from the Almería region. Specifically, the Foundation manages the Ibáñez Museum, the Pérez Siquier center and the Almeriense Art Collection. The latter is divided between the cultural center of Olula del Río (Almería), the Doña Pakyta Art Museum and the Almería Art Museum – Espacio 2, in Almería. To see more information about these museums visit their website here. ​ To find out more information about the MUREC and to plan your visit, go to the museum's website, here, and to see photos of some of its rooms on the opening day, click here. From January 28 to June 2, 2024, a retrospective exhibition of Antonio López will take place at the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands."Antonio López. Master of Spanish Realism" will be his first solo exhibition in the country and in the North of Europe. This exhibition is a travelling exhibition of the one offered at the La Pedrera Foundation in Barcelona, ending on January 14, 2024. It will show practically the same works, although it will display some new additions and a different layout. Both institutions have collaborated to prepare this retrospective exhibition with a good weight of Antonio's recent work. ​For more information, visit the following link by clicking here . From November 29, 2023 to March 31, 2024, an exhibition of reproductions of significant works by Antonio López and several Spanish realist painters of his and subsequent generations is open in the hall of Shanghai Middle Longhua Subway Station at exits 1 and 2 of the station (lines 7 and 12). These artists are: Miguel Ángel Argüello, Amalia Avia, Francisco López, José María Mezquita, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla and Julio Vaquero. The Chinese public will have the chance to learn about the evolution of contemporary figurative art in Spain through reproductions of their works. The exhibition "Antonio López and the Masters of Spanish Realism", reproducing 46 works, is co-organized by the Cervantes Institute, the Spanish Embassy in the PR. China and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, with the collaboration of Turespaña, the advice of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid and the Antonio López and María Moreno Studio and the support of the Shanghai Metro and the Friendship Association. For more information, visit the following link by clicking here .

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VIDEOS Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Video about the visit of Antonio López and José María Mezquita to the exhibition of the latter at the Ethnographic Museum of Zamora Year of production: 2023 Duration time: 00:00:50 min Color/Sound Courtesy © Antonio López Studio On June 1, 2023, Antonio López visited the exhibition of the painter José María Mezquital, Sensitive memory , at the Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León, accompanied by the artist. That same afternoon, both gave a talk in the museum's auditorium. ​ For more information, go to the Museum's website here . Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Video about the creation process of the engraving Rosaprima Nena by Antonio López Year of production: December 2022 Duration time: 00:02:00 min Colour/Sound Courtesy Ogami Press The video shows the printing process of Antonio López's engraving Rosaprima Nena , from the year 2022, at the Ogami Press printing workshop in Madrid. Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Images of sculptures by Antonio López in Art against oblivion. Boadilla de Rioseco Production year: 2020 Duration time: 00:01:59 sec Colour / Sound Video: Ana Paula Melero Courtesy Javier Melero The video shows the complete process of creating the images on aluminum of various sculptures by Antonio López until their mounting on the walls of different buildings in the open-air Gallery in Boadilla de Rioseco, called Art against Oblivion . They can be seen, in this order: Bust of Mari , Hombre lying down and Prototype for Carmen Dormida . The printing was carried out by Strade Digital Print, the assembly of the SR360. the photography by Fernando Caballo Blanco, the video byAna Paula Melero and the coordination by Javier Melero. Art against Oblivion, Boadilla de Rioseco. ​ Production Year: 2019 Duration duration: 00:00:17 sec Colour / Sound Courtesy Javier Melero The video shows the assembly of a digital print on aluminum of a photograph of Antonio López's sculpture, Bust of Mari, which will be exhibited in the open-air gallery of works of art in Boadilla de Rioseco, called Art against Oblivion. Paintings of Ávila's Roses ​ Production Year: 2019 Duration duration: 00:01:07 min Colour / Sound © Ni-Mú Arte From April 26 to October 31 of this year you can see several works by Antonio López of flowers and children's sculptures, which have met to allow a reflection about their nature and similarity. In the video you can see the evolution of his paintings on Rosas de Ávila, present in the exhibition. Colloquium during the rerelease of The Quince Tree Sun at the Cine Estudio in Madrid ​ Production Year: 2019 Duration duration: 01:25:05 min Colour / Sound © Studio of Antonio López On March 21, 2019, The Quince Tree Sun was rereleased in 4K at the Cine Estudio in Madrid, in the Círculo de Bellas Artes, presenting the new director's cut . After the screening, there was a discussion about the film, its filming and contextualization, between its director, Víctor Erice, and the filmmaker and professor, Paulino Viota. Stamping Rosas de Ávila Production Year: 2019 Running time: 00:14:28 mins. Colour/Sound By courtesy of Ni-Mú Arte The stamper Antonio García Palomo shows us and explains how the process of stamping Rosas de Ávila engraving by Antonio López has been carried out. This process has conducted in the facilities of the Workshop Obra Gráfica Original in Madrid, by using the traditional press and combining it with the new techniques of photopolymer plates. 2015 Raíces de Europa Award Production Year: 2015 Running time: 1:02:31 mins. Colour/Sound By courtesy of Raíces de Europa Jorge Latorre interviewed Antonio López at the headquarters of Raíces de Europe on 28 November, 2015, on the occasion of the award that said institution had handed over the artist the day before. They conversed about art and its history, reality, the film The Quince Tree Sun , as well as about some of the latest projects of the painter.

Exhibitions / Exhibitions Information on exhibitions / Info on exhibitions Inauguración MUREC, Almería 15 marzo 2024 Antonio López Master of Spanish Realism Drents Museum, 28 enero-2 junio 2024 Antonio López y los Maestros del Realismo Español. Shanghái 29 noviembre 2023-31 marzo 2024 Antonio López, La Pedrera 22 septiembre 2023-14 enero 2024 Pintura figurativa contemporánea china y española Centro de Arte Quan Shanshi, Hangzhou del 8-28 nov 2023 Antonio López. Arquitecturas en proceso Col. Arq. Sevilla, 2 octubre-17 noviembre 2023 Mímesis, Museo MEAM, Barcelona 21 abril-25 junio 2023 Antonio López en la Modelo, Liceu, Barcelona 23 marzo-10 abril 2023 Infancia. Antonio López 15-26 febrero, El Corte Inglés, Preciados, Madrid ARCO 2023

Digigraphies after works by Antonio López ​Studio Dining Room, 2024, 87.5 x 83.7 cm, ed. of 135 + 12 AP. Gran Vía, 2019, 85 x 78 cm, ed. of 365 + 10 AP. Madrid from Torres Blancas, 2013, 46 x 61 cm, ed. of 100 + 10 AP. Sink and mirror , 2011, 71 x 61 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. Sleeping Carmen , 2011, 35.6 x 43 cm, ed. of 150 +15 AP. Red Roses, 2011, 32.6 x 41.3 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. Lucio's Terrace , 2011, 43 x 83 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. Maria , 2011, 61 x 48.5 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. Vase with flowers and wall, 2011, 43 x 41 cm, ed. of 150+15 AP. Autumn of '61, 2013, 41,8 x 61 cm, ed. of 100 Violets , 2011, 43 x 34.6 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. Red Roses 2010 , 2013, 46 x 57.3 cm, ed. of 100 + 10 AP. ancla cero Quince Tree , 2011, 61 x 72.6 cm, ed. of 150 + 15 AP. CONTACT estudioantoniolopez@gmail.com

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF THE WORKSHOPS: ​ The workshops taught by Antonio have been cancelled with no scheduled restart date. Therefore, this website will no longer provide information or notices about any possible course that may occur in the future. ​ If Antonio were to teach a workshop in the future, the institution organizing it would announce it by its own means and not through this website. Anchor 1

THE QUINCE TREE SUN ​ The Quince Tree Sun was filmed during the fall of 1990 in the house of the couple of artists Antonio López and María Moreno. It was later to be considered the Film of the Nineties according to the survey made by the Cinematheque of Ontario between international film libraries and festivals. The idea of the film emerged while the director, Víctor Erice, accompanied the painter when he was working in three urban views, recording his working method and exploring the recreation of what the artist saw through the camera. Then when Antonio told Víctor that he was going to start painting a quince tree in his garden, the filmmaker recalled a dream that the painter had told him and conceived the film. Antonio would try to capture the sun of that season and its effects on the tree before its fruits would begin to fall off, while Víctor would follow this process that he would later join to the dream the artist had told him. The filming began on 29 September, 1990. ​ The film itself is an artistic exercise that attempts to capture another: the one conducted by the painter in his struggle against the elements to truthfully represent what he sees and feels at the sight of that quince tree. Antonio’s struggle thus became the struggle of Víctor; the filmmaker was concurrently confronting the technical complexities while trying not to interfere in the process of painting, in order not to alter it. The painter facing a seemingly trivial motif, a tree, tried to capture reality through his eyes. As Antonio López himself explained to Víctor Erice: "If you have the will to see it, the whole universe is contained within a tree." (Statement of V. Erice in the Spanish TV Show Versión Española, TVE2, 16 November 1999). During the days López painted and drew it he "accompanied the tree;" not only facing it but being with it, while its transformation continued. ​ The presence in this film of María Moreno, wife of Antonio, was not limited to the one she had before the cameras, since it was instrumental behind them, serving as executive producer and achieving the successful completion of the project, given the film obtained no subsidy. ​ In 1992 the film won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival: The Jury’s and Critics’ Awards. It was officially released on January 20, 1993. ​ In May 2017, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the appearance of the film at the Cannes Film Festival, the digitisation of the original to 4K DCP was presented in the "Cannes Classics" section. This process has been made by the Filmoteca de Catalunya under the supervision of the director of the film, Víctor Erice, who has also reviewed the montage. ​BHC ​ Awards: ​Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 1992 Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 1992 Gold Hugo, Festival of Chicago, 1992 1st Prize, International Festival of Uruguay, 1993 Best Spanish Director, ADIRCE, 1993 Best Film of the Nineties, Cinematheque Ontario, 1999 ​ Cannes Classics, Festival Cannes, 2017 ​ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ World rights of the film owned by CAMM CINCO S.L. estudioantoniolopez@gmail.com To find out about Mr. Víctor Erice's workshops , please go to the following website: https://www.rosebudtalleresdecine.com ​ ​ Anchor 1 links to articles about the film: Letra Global , 29 May 2019 La lamentable , 23 May 2017 ​ Caimán. Cuadernos de cine , 18 May 2017 ​ ABC , 3 May 2017 ​ ABC , 9 April 2014 El confidencial , 9 April 2014 La Crítica, 13 October 2012 ​ ABC , 24 January 2004 ​ Film Quarterly, Spring 1993 ​ ABC , 25 March 1993 El País , 20 January1993 ​ ABC , 19 May 1992 ​ El País, 12 May 1992 ​ interviews and reports on RTVE : RTVE a la carta, Antonio López :

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PUBLIC ARTWORKS Retrato de sus Majestades los Reyes de España D. Juan Carlos y Doña Sofía (Portrait of the King and Queen of Spain, Juan Carlos and Sofía), Cloister of the Museum of San Benito, City Council of Valladolid 1999-2001,Work done jointly by Antonio López, and the sculptors Julio and Francisco López Hernández El día y La noche (Day and Night), Atocha Station, Madrid, 2008 Carmen despierta and Carmen dormida (Carmen Awake and Carmen Asleep), ed. 1/3, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008 La mujer de Coslada (Coslada Woman), Avenida de la Constitución, Coslada, Madrid, 2010 Carmen despierta and Carmen dormida (Carmen Awake and Carmen Asleep), ed. 2/3, Fundació Sorigué, Lérida, 2012 2018 -Mujer del Almanzora (Almanzora Woman) , Museo Ibáñez & Centro Pérez Siquier, Olula del Río, Almería, 2017 Carmen despierta and Carmen dormida (Carmen Awake and Carmen Asleep), P.A. 1/2. Plaza de España Tomelloso, 2023 Anchor 1 Instalación de Carmen despierta, 11 mayo 2023 Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied

SOLO SHOWS: ​ 1951 Antonio López . Casino Liberal, Tomelloso, Ciudad Real. ​ 1957 Antonio López García y su tiempo. Ateneo de Madrid, Sala del Prado, Madrid, 3–20 December. ​ 1961 Antonio López García . Galería Biosca, Madrid, 5–17 June. ​ 1965 Antonio López García. Paintings and Sculptures. Staempfli Gallery, New York, 13 April–1 May. ​ 1968 Antonio López García. Staempfli Gallery, New York, 29 October–16 November. ​ 1972 Antonio López García . Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. ​ Antonio López García. Galleria Galatea, Turin, 6 April–3 May. ​ 1985 Antonio López García. Exposición organizada por la Fundación Juan March en el Museo de Albacete, Albacete, 10 May–30 June. ​ Antonio López. Europalia’85, España. Ministerio de Cultura Español, Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels, 26 September– 22 December. ​ 1986 Antonio López García. Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings:1965–1986. Marlborough Gallery, New York, 3–26 April; Marlborough Fine Art, London, 9–31 May. ​ 1993 Antonio López. Pintura, Escultura, Dibujo. Exposición Antológica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, May–July. ​ 1994 Antonio López, proceso de un trabajo. Fundación FOCUS, Seville, 4 November 1994–15 January 1995. ​ 2000 Fragmentos de un trabajo. Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio, Aranjuez, 11 May–10 June. ​ Antonio López. Un proceso sin fin. Centro Cultural Palacio de la Audiencia, Fundación Duques de Soria, Soria, 20 June–20 July. ​ 2001 Antonio López. “Hombre y Mujer”. Obras de la Colección. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October. ​ 2008 Antonio López García. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 13 April–27 July. ​ 2011 Antonio López. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 28 June–25 September. ​ 2011–12 Antonio López . Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 10 October 2011–22 January 2012. ​ 2012 Antonio López en la Fundació Sorigué. Fundación Sorigué, Lleida, 24 May–31 December. ​ 2013 Antonio López Master of Realism. Roaming Exhibition: The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 27 April–16 June; Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 29 June–25 August; Iwate Museum of Art, 7 September–27 October. ​ Antonio López a Andorra. El procés de l’escultura. Sala d’Exposicions del Govern, Andorra La Vella, 24 September-30 November. ​ 2014 Antonio López García, Caravaggio, Cena per due. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1 July–7 September. ​ 2014–15 Antonio López García. Il silenzio della realtà. La realtà del silenzio. Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza, 24 December 2014–8 March 2015. ​ 2015 Antonio López. Sala de Arte Robayera, Miengo, 8 August–12 September. Antonio López . Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October. ​ 2018 Antonio López, pintor. Invited Artist at the Palau de la Música, Barcelona, 24 April-24 June. 2019 Antonio López. Burgos, Monasterio de Silos, 26 April-31 October. ​ 2020 Antonio López. Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, 24 September 2020-24 January; extended until February 28, 2021. ​ 2021 Antonio López en Sol . Real Casa de Correos, Madrid, 19 April-20 June. ​ 2023 Infancia. Antonio López. ARCO-El Corte Inglés, El Corte Inglés’ Preciados Street Building (Shop Window) & Stand of El Corte Inglés at ARCO 2023 art fair, Madrid, 15-26 February. Antonio López. Modelo Old Prison, Barcelona, organized by the Gran Teatro Liceu de Barcelona, 23 March-10 April. ​ Antonio López. Obra gráfica . Sala Ignacio Zuloaga, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 28 March-30 September. ​ Antonio López . Fundación Cataluña La Pedrera, Barcelona, 22 September 2023-14 January 2024. ​ Antonio López. Arquitecturas en proceso . Colegio de Arquitectos de Sevilla, Sevilla, 2 October -17 November 2023. ​ 2024 Antonio López. Meester van het Spaans realisme/Master of Spanish realism. Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, 28 January-2 June. Vitrina CERO. Una década tras la reforma del MAN. Obra invitada de Antonio López. Museo Arqueológico, Madrid, 16 April–14 July. ​ ​ [ April , 2024] Anchor 1