Anchor 1 AWARDS AND HONOURS: 1949 Provincial Painting Awards from Educación y Descanso, Ciudad Real 1950 Special Award (Artistic Drawing) from the School of Arts and Crafts, Madrid 1950–51 Prize for Drawing from the Antique and of Drapery, Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid Drawing Prize, Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 1951–52 Prize for Life Drawing, First Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid Carmen del Río’s Painting Award at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 1952–53 Estado’s Award for Colouring and Composition, First Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid Carmen del Río’s Painting Award at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 1953–54 Madrigal’s Award for Colouring and Composition, Second Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid Bursary Award El Paular for the Course of Landscape at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 1955 Travel Grant to Italy from the Ministry of Education (III National Competition for Plastic Artists), Spain 1957 Jaén County Council Award from the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Spain 1958 Molino de Plata Award from the Regional Exhibition of Valdepeñas, Spain Still Life Award from the Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada, which consisted in a travel bursary that he used to visit Greece Travel bursary from the Ministry of Education, Spain, which he used to travel to Rome 1959 Molino de Plata Award from the Regional Exhibition of Valdepeñas, Spain 1961 Scholarship from the Fundación Juan March, Spain 1965 National Architecture Prize, Spain, shared with the Architect Heliodoro Dols given it was a joint work 1974 Prize of the City of Darmstadt, Germany 1983 Pablo Iglesias Award, Madrid Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Spain 1985 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Spain Golden ABC, Madrid 1986 Gold Medal of Castilla La Mancha, Spain 1990 Gold Medal of the Community of Madrid, Spain 1992 Tomás Francisco Prieto Award from the Mint House, Madrid 1993 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 2003 Prize of Plastic Arts and Architecture of El Mundo and the Community of Castilla La Mancha 2004 Medal of Honour from the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Santader City of Alcala de Henares Award for the Arts, Spain Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2006 Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture, Spain 2009 Penagos Drawing Prize of the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid 2010 Gold Medal of the City Council of Madrid 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the University of Navarra 2012 Prince of Viana Award of Culture, Navarra International Medal of Arts of the Community of Madrid 2013 Honorary Member of the University Faculty of Arts, University of Alcalá, Madrid 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the University of Murcia 2014 Rosa d’Oro della Milanesiana Award, Milan, Italy 2015 Medal of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Seville 2015 Fuera de Serie Arts Award, Expansión, Spain Raíces de Europa Award, Spain 2017 Gold Medal of the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, Spain Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Valencia Averroes Gold Award City of Córdoba 2017 to the Arts, Spain 2018 Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the Universidad Complutense, Madrid Medal of Honor by the University Carlos III, Madrid Honour Member of the Association of Architecture of Madrid (COAM) 2019 Fundación de Fomento Europeo Prize, Barcelona 2020 Award Florencio Galindo de las Letras, Ávila 2021 Honour Member of the Institución Gran Duque de Ávila, Diputación de Ávila 2022 XVI Sport Cultura Barcelona Awards, Fundación RBA, Barcelona [July, 2022]

Chronology of Antonio López García 1936 1948 1949 1950 1955 1956-57 1958 1959-60 1961 1964 1965 1966-69 1968 1970 1972 1974 1970-75 1975-1982 1983 1985 1985 1986 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Born on January 6, in the Castillian village of Tomelloso to a well-to-do family that makes its living from cultivating their land and vines. The Spanish Civil War breaks out triggered by the military upheaval of July 17, which led to a successful coup d’état. War ends on April 1, 1939, giving way to a military dictatorship under General Francisco Franco. Notwithstanding this, his childhood in the village is peaceful and happy. Still a child, he starts drawing by copying engravings depicting nineteenth-century paintings . During the summer his uncle, the painter Antonio López Torres , initiated him in painting. He teaches little Antonio the importance of painting from life by placing the motif right in front of him; first to draw it and then to paint it in oil. In October, despite his young age, 13 years old, and thanks to the mediation of his uncle, Antonio López's parents agree to let him go to Madrid to prepare for his admission into the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. To prepare for the entrance examination to the School of Fine Arts, he goes daily to the Museum of Artistic Reproductions, located in the Casón del Buen Retiro, to copy plaster casts after antique sculptures and, in the afternoons, to the School of Arts and Crafts. In June 1950, at age 14, when Antonio passes the entrance exam to join the School of San Fernando, he experiences one of the happiest moments of his life. Completes his Fine Arts studies in San Fernando in 1955, winning several awards in the School competitions. During these years he meets those who will become his closest friends and his future wife: Enrique Gran, Lucio Muñoz, Francisco and Julio López, Joaquín Ramo, Francisco Nieva, Amalia Avia, Isabel Quintanilla and María Moreno. Before terminating his studies in January, he takes part in one of his first group exhibitions organized by the General Directorate of Fine Arts along with three of his friends, Lucio Muñoz and Francisco and Julio López. In May, he gets a travel grant by winning a contest of the National Education Delegation, which he uses in the summer of that same year to go touring Italy for a month with his friend and colleague, the sculptor Francisco López. From his formative stage, he began to search for his language and tried various resources, being those of a surreal nature that would appear in many of the paintings of his first production. The landscapes of this period are usually inhabited by figures or by Still Lifes. Although he already paints cheerful vegetable themes, figures are the protagonists of much of the works he produces during these years. Given the difficulty of settling in the capital, he lives between Madrid and Tomelloso. Antonio López García and his time, his first solo exhibition, is held at the Ateneo de Madrid in December 1957. Wins the Still Life section of the annual Fine Arts competition of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation in Granada with the work "In the kitchen", thus getting a travel grant that he uses to visit Greece accompanied again by Francisco López. Together they will also visit Rome thanks to another scholarship obtained by Antonio from the Ministry of Education. Lives between Madrid and Tomelloso until 1960, thus becoming both places the background of his paintings. From that year on, Madrid turns into the main character of several of his paintings and will no longer disappear from his themes. At that time, he is beginning to develop his sculptural activity that will occupy a large part of his production in the coming years. He exhibits individually at the Biosca Gallery in Madrid, then run by Juana Mordó, who would later become his art dealer. This show receives rave reviews and sells several of his artworks to Spanish collectors. Marries the painter María Moreno . Joins the roster of artists at the new Juana Mordó Gallery, which is opened on March 13th with a group exhibition featuring works by them all. From that moment on, and thanks to the international connections of the gallery, he participates in numerous foreign group exhibitions, particularly in the United States and Germany. In the latter, there is a growing interest in the so-called Spanish Realism, which results in the organization of various group shows until the eighties. Many of these exhibitions include the work of Antonio López, Francisco López, Isabel Quintanilla, and María Moreno. In 1964, he begins teaching at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, continuing several courses until 1969. His first solo show in North America takes place at the Staempfli Gallery in New York, being organized with the help of his Spanish gallery, Juana Mordó. This exhibition, very well received by the public and critics, leads to the sale of some of his works to various American collections. Gradually begins to purge his works of surrealist elements to gain a more objective approach, closer to reality. Interiors bare of figures appear in both his paintings and drawings, choosing very often workrooms and bathrooms to feature his drawings. On the other hand, the figures represented in his artworks often belong to his intimate circle, which is a permanent characteristic of his work. Exhibits for the second time in the gallery of George Staempfli, coinciding with the booming of Realism and Hyper-realism styles in the United States and reaping rave reviews again. Begins one of his most important sculptures: Hombre y mujer (Reina Sofía Museum). Antonio begins to be represented by Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA. Exhibits individually both in Galatea Gallery in Turin, Italy, and Claude Bernard Gallery in Paris, France. Is awarded the Prize of the City of Darmstadt, Germany. Continues to represent interiors to which he adds windows seen from inside and even some figures, like in the drawing depicting his uncle at his house, Casa de Antonio López Torres (1972-1975). This way, he broadens the subject matter of realism, to which he also contributes a new vision of some motifs like the places in the house, incorporating the toilet and the kitchen, but devoid of characters. His interest in the human habit of eating leads Antonio to render it in both drawings and oil paintings, thus producing one of his most representative works on the subject, the painting La Cena (1971-1980). During these years, his work is also exhibited in major international group shows as Contemporary Spanish Realists at the Marlborough Gallery, London (1973) and Realismus und Realität at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (1975). Throughout this period, he works on some of his most important pieces, especially in some of his most famous sights of Madrid as Gran Vía (1974-1981) or Madrid desde Torres Blancas (1974-1982), as well as in the sculptures Hombre y Mujer (1968-1994). Keeps working on the theme of the window seen from inside, starting several paintings depicting this subject at different times of the day.. Is awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts and the Pablo Iglesias Prize. The Juan March Foundation organizes his first retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Albacete, arousing great interest among the public and the critics. Is honoured with the "Prince of Asturias" Award for the Arts. Becomes one of the three artists selected to represent Contemporary Spanish Art and exhibit individually in Europalia 85, Brussels, being the other two Antoni Tàpies and Eduardo Chillida. His work receives a lot of press attention. Is one of the three artists selected to represent Contemporary Spanish Art and exhibit individually in Europalia 85 , Brussels. The other two artists are Antoni Tàpies and Eduardo Chillida. His work gets a lot of press attention. Exhibits again individually in New York, but this time in the gallery that represents him then, Marlborough Gallery, where he will exhibit on few occasions. A few months later, this show travels to the gallery's London headquarters. He shoots El sol del membrillo in his own house under the direction of Víctor Erice, a film that portrays his creative process and in which some members of his family and friends appear. This film, released in 1992, garners good reviews and awards, among which stands out the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival (1992). Antonio takes part in a group exhibition, Otra Realidad. Compañeros en Madrid, curated by Javier Tusell and María José Salazar. This show, organized by Fundación Humanismo y Democracia with the collaboration of Caja Madrid, displays his works are along with those of his colleagues and friends, who practiced both figurative and abstract trends. It marks a turning point in the understanding of the figurative painting done in Madrid from the fifties onward. Receives the Award Tomás Francisco Prieto from Madrid Mint, for which he is commissioned a series of coins in gold, silver, and bronze. Chooses a man and a hare as motifs for each of the sides of the coins. In May 1993, a major retrospective exhibition of his work opens at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, featuring 170 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, and drawings. With this show, Antonio achieves definitive recognition from the public and critics. He is named Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando de Madrid. Fundación Focus in Seville organises an exhibition that explores his creative process: Antonio López, proceso de un trabajo. 1995 1998 1999 2001 2004 2006 2008 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2024 He is selected to take part in the exhibition Identità e alterità, curated by Jean Clair, first hosted at the Palazzo Grassi and then at the Museo Correr, both in Venice, Italy. He is appointed member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado , a position he will hold until 2009. The City Council of Valladolid commissions him and the sculptors Francisco and Julio López Hernández, a monumental sculpture of the King and the Queen of Spain. This statue is unveiled in 2001 in its current location: the Monastery of San Benito in Valladolid. The sculptures Man and Woman (1968-94) are presented at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1968-94), accompanied by nineteen preparatory drawings, on the occasion of having entered the entire set in the museum's collection as a gift from Repsol YPF. These sculptures were acquired from the North American collector Dorothy C. Weicker, who, in turn, had bought them in 1975. He is named Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York . This same year he receives two other distinctions: the Medal of Honor from the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Santander and the City of Alcalá de Henares Prize for the Arts. He presents his largest format painting at the Madrid Assembly : Madrid from the Vallecas fire tower (1990-2006), which is more than four meters wide. This work has been transferred to this institution by the Caja Madrid Special Foundation. In June of this year, he received the highest award for Fine Arts in Spain and Latin America: the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts. His first public monumental solo sculptures, El Día y La Noche, are installed at Madrid Atocha Station. Another pair of bronze heads inspired by these public sculptures, Carmen awake and Carmen asleep, are placed in April at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston, coinciding with the individual exhibition dedicated to her in parallel to a large show on Spanish art by the Modern Age: El Greco to Velázquez. Art during the Reign of Philip III, curated by Ronni Baer. He is awarded the Gold Medal of the Madrid City Council, a city that he has managed to represent with great veracity in his paintings. He receives the Penagos Drawing Prize from the Mapfre Foundation. His monumental sculpture La mujer de Coslada , commissioned by the City of Coslada, was inaugurated on Avenida de la Constitución in this Madrid municipality. In June, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid inaugurates a large exhibition that combines retrospective character while revealing a large part of the production it had produced in the last eighteen years, since its previous solo exhibition in Madrid, which it had had place in 1993 at the Reina Sofía. The exhibition organized by the Thyssen, titled Antonio López , traveled in October 2011 to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. This sample had long been awaited by the public, who came breaking records to visit it. Critics, both inside and outside Spain, make a very positive assessment of the exhibition and the works presented there. Japan's interest in his work has always borne fruit in a traveling solo exhibition through three museums in three major cities in the country: Tokyo, Nagasaki and Iwate. He is invited to participate in the La Milanesiana festival in Milan, where his work La cena, accompanied by his preparatory drawing, is shown in front of Caravaggio's La cena en Emaús at the Pinacoteca de Brera In December he delivered the portrait of The Family of Juan Carlos I, within the framework of an exhibition dedicated to the history of the monarchical portrait in Spain organized by National Heritage at the Royal Palace of Madrid: The portrait in the royal collections. From Juan de Flandes to Antonio López. After the exhibition it becomes part of the permanent Heritage collection, being installed in its facilities. During the same month, two exhibitions in which he participates are inaugurated in Vicenza, Italy: an individual exhibition dedicated to his figure - Antonio López García - and a large group exhibition dedicated to the night - Tutankhamun, Caravaggio, Van Gogh. The will be ei notturni dagli Egizi al Novecento -, with works by great international artists of past and contemporary centuries, including Zurbarán, Van Gogh, Rothko and Francis Bacon,. He exhibits individually at the Sala Robayera in Miengo, Cantabria during the month of August. In October, a selection of his latest pieces combined with some works from previous stages is presented at the Barcelona Marborough Gallery within the framework of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend. During the months of February and May, the Thyssen Museum in Madrid dedicates an exhibition to the group of artists who have practiced a realistic art, or New Figuration, since the 1950s in that city. This is part of the group of friends and colleagues that Antonio López met during his formative years: Francisco and Julio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Amalia Avia, María Moreno and Esperanza Parada. Works by all of them, as well as by Antonio, are seen together allowing their comparison in the context of their long careers, thus exposing both their connection points and their stylistic and technical differences. The Carmen Thyssen museum in Malaga presents the exhibition The essence of reality in April, which explores the history of realist art in Spain, from the 17th century to the present day, paying special attention to the last half century. In June, the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona presented him with the Gold Medal in recognition of his career and artistic merits. In September of this same year, Antonio López presented his first artist's book: Bodies and Flowers, made by the Artika publishing house, where both subjects are addressed and illustrated throughout his career. On the 11th of the same month, it's oficially opened another of his public sculptures, La mujer de la Almanzora , at the Casa Ibáñez de Olula del Río Museum in Almería. In October the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. names him the title of Academic of Honour. The itinerancy of the exhibition The Poetics of Abstraction and Figuration through various Euroean Cervantes Institutes begins in Prague and Antonio participates with two works. After touring for different countries, it concludes at the New York headquarters of the Cervantes Institute of New York in September of 2019. This year he receives several distinctions: Doctor Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid; the Medal of Honour from the Carlos III University and the Collegiate of Honour from the Madrid College of Architects. Between April 26 and October 13, it was opened to the public an individual exhibition of Antonio at the Silos Monastery, focusing on some of his latest works of flowers, including much of his Rosas de Ávila series, and children, giving to the show an introspective and contemplative approach.. On February 17, his wife, María Moreno, died. He continues to work on the series he had started on her, with which he pays tribute to her. In September 2020, a retrospective exhibition is inaugurated at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia, which includes a wide selection of recent and in-process works. The exhibition, curated by Tomás and Boye Llorens, also shows a selected selection of works by María Moreno. The following year, the Community of Madrid dedicated an exhibition tribute to him in which his monumental sculptures, Carmen awaken and asleep , are shown at the Real Casa de Correos in Madrid. On ARCO 2023 art fair, as a tribute, El Corte Inglés devotes an individual exhibition to Antonio in the windows of its building on Calle Preciados in Madrid. Collaborates with Teatro Liceu in Barcelona on the production of the Winterreise recital of F. Schubert. Antonio lends images of his works to the stage director Bárbara Lluch and her team, who utilised them in a video used as scenery for the concert on the 23rd, 24th and March 25th. Concurrently, this institution arranges an exhibition of his work in the old Model prison in Barcelona for three weeks. The La Pedrera Foundation inaugurates a retrospective exhibition of Antonio's work at its headquarters in Barcelona, Gaudí's Casa Milà. It can be visited for 4 months, before traveling to the Drents museum in the Netherlands in January 2024. The Drents Museum presents Antonio's first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, open from January 28 to June 2. In April, the exhibition Beyond realism: figurative art in China and Spain opens at the Royal Palace of Madrid, which closes the collaboration and celebration of bilateral relations between China and Spain, which began in November of the previous year in Hangzhou's Quan Shanshi Art Center and then traveled to the National Grand Theatre, Beijing the following month. Beatriz Hidalgo Caldas Anchor 1

sketches Both before and after the filming of The Quince Tree Sun , between 1990 and 2003, Víctor Erice recorded Antonio López working in several artworks that he was carrying out in different parts of Madrid, exploring what could emerge from the encounter with the painter's work. From these Sketches Víctor Erice conceived an installation that presented the pictures of Antonio López through the cinema; the images that the artist saw while working in these works, but adding to them what the stillness of a painting cannot: sound, motion and time. The result, Fragor del mundo. Silencio de la pintura (The World Roar. Silence of painting), could be seen in 2006 at the CCCB in Barcelona and then at La Casa Encendida in Madrid during the exhibition showing the careers and correspondence of Víctor Erice and another renowned filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami. There occurred a new encounter between art and cinema, where in addition to that installation it was also shown the result of the work of Antonio López at these locations in an unusual way. In particular, in the exhibition were shown the paintings Gran Vía (1974-1981), Madrid desde Torres Blancas (Madrid from Torres Blancas) (1974-1982) and Madrid desde el Cerro Almodóvar (Madrid from Almodóvar Hill) (1991-1994) and the resulting works from filming The Quince Tree Sun : the drawing Árbol de membrillo (Quince tree) (1990) and the painting Membrillero (Quince tree) (1992) -in which he continued working after the shooting-. Wisely Víctor Erice subverted the way of exhibiting cinema and painting in this project, thus presenting the art works surrounded by darkness, illuminated from behind and wrapping them in the ambient sounds collected in those places where Antonio painted them. BHC Anchor 1

MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS: Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburg Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Venezuela: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela Spain: Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria Asamblea de Madrid, deposit from Colección Fundación Montemadrid Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, Claustro de San Benito, Valladolid Caja de Burgos, Casa del Cordón, Burgos Colección ACS, Madrid Colección BBVA, Madrid Colección Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid Colección Fundación Privada Sorigué, Lleida Colección Masaveu, Oviedo and Madrid Colección Navarro-Valero, Madrid Colección Norte de Arte Contemporáneo, Government of Cantabria, Santander Colección Rucandio, Madrid Colección Telefónica de España, S. A., Madri d Fundación Caja Ávila, Ávila Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona Fundación ICO, Madrid Fundación Juan March, Madrid and Palma de Mallorca Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Toledo Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao Museo Ibáñez, Olula del Río, Almería Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Museo Palacio de Elsedo, Pámanes, Santander Museo Provincial, Ciudad Real Museo Provincial, Jaén Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid United States: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston France: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Japan: Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagasaki Italy: Museo d’Arte Constantino Barbella di Chieti, Abruzzo. Anchor 1

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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 :

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

Antonio López García (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1936) He began his training under his uncle, the painter Antonio López Torres. In 1949, he travelled to Madrid to prepare for the entrance exam to the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Antonio enrolled there between 1950 and 1955. In 1955, he obtained a travel grant from the Ministry of Education to travel to Italy. Later, in 1958, Antonio won the Fine Arts competition of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation in the Still Life category. For this, he received a scholarship to travel to Greece. He goes on both trips in the company of his friend, the sculptor, Francisco López, who travels by his means. After graduating, his production included elements of different artistic movements such as Cubism and Surrealism, the latter being the most frequent as it helped to reinforce the narrative character of several of his works. From the sixties, he began to abandon the oneiric component while gradually developing a more objective approach. His motifs are then portraits of people around him, interiors, still lifes and cityscapes that serve as background to the still lifes and to the scenes with figures. His sculptural work runs parallel to his paintings and drawings, thus making reliefs in different materials and his first exempt pieces. Between 1964 and 1969, Antonio taught the Chair of Preparatory of Colouring at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Afterwards he has given courses occasionally, while devoting himself entirely to artistic creation. He has participated in numerous group shows and has been the subject of several solo exhibitions. Among them stand out for their impact those held in the Staempfli Gallery in 1965 and 1968, and in the Marlborough Gallery (New York and London) in 1986. In 1985, he represented Spain in Europalia 85 , Brussels, along with the artists Eduardo Chillida and Antoni Tàpies. A few years later, in 1990, film director Víctor Erice filmed the feature film The Quince Tree Sun , focused on the creative process of Antonio López, which was later awarded the 1992 International Critics Prize and the Juty Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the 1992 Gold Hugo to the Best Feature Film at the International Film Festival of Chicago, and the Award for Best Foreign Film at the Montreal Film Festival, Canada, in 2000. In 1993 he had his first retrospective exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, which met with a favourable reception from the public and critics. In 1995, he was selected to take part in the exhibition Identità e alterità , curated by Jean Claire, first hosted at the Palazzo Grassi and then at the Museo Correr, both in Venice, Italy. A few years later, in 1999, the City of Valladolid commissioned Antonio López and the sculptors Francisco and Julio López Hernández a monumental sculpture of the King and Queen of Spain, which was inaugurated in 2001 in the Cloister of San Benito, Valladolid. In October 2001, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía celebrated the acquisition of the sculptures Hombre y Mujer (Man and Woman) and nineteen of their preparatory drawings with a small exhibition and the publication of a book on these pieces. These artworks thus joined with three other important works of Antonio López already in the permanent collection of the museum. In 2006, Antonio presented at the Madrid Assembly his largest urban painting he has made to date, Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas (Madrid from the tower of fire of Vallecas), which exceeds four meters wide and represents almost the entire surface of the city from that point. In 2008, he finished his first solo public commission of a monumental sculpture; two monumental bronze heads of three meters high, El día y La Noche (Day and Night), located outside Atocha station in Madrid. In April 2008, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, dedicated him a solo show in parallel to a historical exhibition that addressed Spanish art during the reign of Philip III: El Greco to Velazquez. Art During the Reign of Philip III . In October 2010, his second public sculpture, La mujer de Coslada (Woman of Coslada), was inaugurated at the Avenue of La Constitución in the Madrid municipality of Coslada. In June 2011, an individual exhibition that combined a retrospective character with the presentation of his latest work that had not yet seen the light was inaugurated at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. This exhibition, on display from June to September 2011, also travelled in October of that year to the Bilbao’s Fine Arts Museum, where it remained until January 2012. The following year, a solo roaming exhibition of his work travelled to several museums in Japan, starting on April 27 at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo. In 2014, he was invited by Vittorio Sgarbi to participate in the famous Festival La Milanesiana, in which a special exhibition was organized presenting his painting La cena (The Supper) and its preparatory drawing opposite to Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus , thus enabling a new reading of these works. In December of that year, he delivered the painting La Familia de Juan Carlos I (The Family of Juan Carlos I), a large-format work of 300 x 340 cm that has become part of the collections of Spain’s National Heritage. This work was presented in the context of an exhibition about Royal Portraiture held at the Royal Palace of Madrid: El retrato en las colecciones reales. De Juan de Flandes a Antonio López . During the same month, there were inaugurated in Vicenza, Italy, a pair of exhibitions in which Antonio took part: a solo show, Antonio López García. Il silenzio della realtà. La realtà del silenzio , and a group exhibition dedicated to the night, Tutankhamon, Caravaggio, Van Gogh. La será e i notturni dagli Egizi al Novecento , which featured works of great international artists from the past and contemporary including Zurbarán, Van Gogh, Rothko or Francis Bacon. Thus, after more than forty years since his last solo exhibition, Antonio López showed his latest work to the Italian public, which gave him a great welcome. The work of Antonio meets again with the Madrid public in February 2016, on the inauguration of an exhibition at the Thyssen Museum about the group of Madrid Realists, in which the artist is usually classified alongside those who have been his colleagues and friends from his formative years: Isabel Quintanilla, Julio and Francisco López, Maria Moreno, Amalia Avia and Esperanza Parada. In September 2020, a retrospective exhibition is inaugurated at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia, which includes a wide selection of recent and in-process works. The exhibition, curated by Tomás and Boye Llorens, also shows a selected selection of works by María Moreno.The following year, the Community of Madrid dedicated an exhibition tribute to him in which his monumental sculptures, Carmen awaken and asleep , are shown at the Real Casa de Correos de Madrid. On the occasion of the ARCO art fair in 2023, El Corte Inglés dedicates an exhibition to Antonio in the windows of his building on Calle Preciados in Madrid. In addition, he starred on the El Corte Inglés stand at ARCO, with a monumental reproduction of his Madrid Sur, which was completed in 2022. In March 2023, he collaborated with the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona in the show of Franz Schubert's Winterreise recital. The Liceu simultaneously organized an individual exhibition for him in gallery 5 of the former Modelo prison, providing a unique context for his works. In September of the same year, the La Pedrera Foundation of Barcelona inaugurated a retrospective exhibition of Antonio's work at Gaudí's Casa Milà. It was hosted for four months, before traveling to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands in January 2024, where it is on display until June 2 of that year. This is Antonio's first solo show in the Netherlands. During his career he has received numerous awards and nominations among which are: the Gold Medal of Fine Arts (1983), Pablo Iglesias Prize (1983), Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts (1985); Full Member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (1993); Patron of the Museo del Prado (1998- 2009); Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York (2004); Medal of Honour (2004) of the Menendez Pelayo International University of Santander; Alcalá de Henares Ciudad de las Artes Prize (2004); the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize (2006); the Gold Medal of Fine Arts of the City of Madrid (2010); Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia (2017). Works and lives in Madrid. April 2023 Studio of Antonio López, updated by Beatriz Hidalgo Caldas Anchor 1

Exhibitions Information 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

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