This section is dedicated to news regarding Antonio López, his exhibitions, book publications, programas and awards. News 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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). 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. He discussed the careers of the two Spanish figurative artists and also looked at their works in the museum's collection. 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. 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. 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. For more information, see the EcuentroMadrid website . To watch the talk, the video is available on the event's Youtube channel: here . 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. 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. More information on the Fundos website here . 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. 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 . For more information about the exhibition, click here . 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 .

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Complete list of all individual exhibitions to date in which the work of Antonio López has been shown. 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] SOLO SHOWS Anchor 1

Gallery of images and stills from the film El sol del membrillo, by Víctor Erice, about Antonio López's work process. Anchor 1

A selected bibliography about the artist Antonio López and his work. Bibliography The selected bibliography of Antonio López included in this section is divided into four blocks: First, the texts about his work that appear in catalogues of individual and group exhibitions; secondly, in books on different subjects; thirdly, newspaper articles and, finally, his own texts. The copyright of the document belongs to the Studio of Antonio López. Any information extracted from this document must be quoted or acknowledged following international directions and mentionig the authorship of the Studio of Antonio López. To open the document in full-screen, please click on the image below or use the sidebar to scroll through the pages: Anchor 1

Complete biography of the artist Antonio López, including the different stages in his production, as well as the milestones of his career, exhibitions and awards. Antonio López García He was born in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, on January 6, 1936, into a well-off farming family, a few months before the start of the Spanish civil war that began on July 17 with the army uprising. The war ended three years later, on April 1, 1939, and ushered in a long military dictatorship led by Francisco Franco that lasted thirty-seven years. Regardless, Antonio López remembers his childhood in the village as happy and peaceful. He began artistic training in his hometown with his uncle, the painter Antonio López Torres. During the summer of 1949, drawing became an increasingly pleasurable activity for Antonio. He spent hours copying plates that reproduced nineteenth-century paintings. After observing his drawing talent, his uncle guided him in his first drawings and paintings after nature. In October of that same year, his uncle convinced his parents to let him travel to Madrid to prepare for the entrance examination at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. With this aim in mind, Antonio worked primarily on drawing after statues; through copying casts at the Museum of Artistic Reproductions, then located in the Casón del Buen Retiro, and by attending the afternoon courses of the School of Arts and Crafts. From then on, he met those who became his friends and principal generation colleagues. These were the brothers and sculptors, Julio and Francisco López Hernández, the painters Joaquín Ramo, Enrique Gran, and Lucio Muñoz, and the painter and writer Francisco Nieva, among others. Later, the painters María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla and Amalia Avia joined the circle of friends. At fourteen, Antonio passed the entrance examination for San Fernando Arts School. There he completed the Fine Arts official curriculum between 1950 and 1955. After graduating in 1955, he travelled to Italy with Francisco López, thanks to a travel grant from the Ministry of Education. That same year, Antonio exhibited in the General Directorate of Fine Arts gallery along with Francisco and Julio López Hernández and Lucio Muñoz –the latter's style was already heading towards abstraction. After graduating, Antonio returned to Tomelloso and prepared his first solo exhibition at the Ateneo, in Madrid, in December 1957. It allowed him to settle back in Madrid. In 1958, he won the Still Life category of the Fine Arts competition of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation. He used the institution's travelling scholarship to travel to Greece, again accompanied by Francisco López. Francisco did it using his resources, just like when they both went to Rome in the summer of 1955. Until 1960, Antonio lived between Tomelloso and Madrid, the two most meaningful places for him artistically and residentially. During this period, the happy memories of his childhood and adolescence in Tomelloso inspired him to create many works featuring the town and the things or people who accompanied him there. His works from that time are entirely figurative. He developed a variety of topics ranging from Still Lifes with some fantastic nature, cheerful plant motifs, and portraits full of strength and expression. He also developed a series of paintings in which the city or the landscape are the backgrounds of the figures and the Still Lifes. His artistic production during these years included elements of different artistic movements such as Cubism and Surrealism. The latter was the most frequent as it helped him reinforce the narrative character of the works. Sculpture already took up a substantial part of his output, which resulted in particularly striking polychromed reliefs and some expressive sculptures in the round, like those representing his daughter María as a child. He began painting Madrid in 1960, where the city is the protagonist. It became a theme that has been a big part of his output throughout his career. The sixties marked his definitive step into objective reality representation, which occurred gradually. Over this period, he alternated works in which the focus was already an unadulterated reality with others in which surreal elements still appeared. In 1961, he received a grant from the Juan March Foundation. Years later, this institution incorporated Antonio's painting Figuras en una Casa (1967) into its collection. That same year, he married the painter María Moreno and presented his second solo exhibition at the Biosca Gallery in Madrid, then headed by Juana Mordó. A few years later, in 1964, he became represented by the newly opened "Juana Mordó Gallery" in Madrid. International contacts from this gallery provided Antonio with several exhibitions, especially in Germany and the United States. These shows helped his artworks become part of international collections and museums. Contemporary Spanish Realist Art aroused widespread interest in Germany, first by art dealer Ernesto Wuthenow. This appeal continued well into the eighties and crystallized in numerous group exhibitions. These included works by the painters Antonio López Torres, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno, the sculptor Francisco López, and Antonio López. Of note are the exhibitions devoted to international contemporary sculpture and painting held at the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh in 1964 and 1967. In addition, there was the 1964 New York World's Fair dedicated to Spanish art, sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts of Spain. Between 1964 and 1969, he taught the Preparatory Course of Colour at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. He left this chair to devote himself entirely to his career. However, he has continued to teach sporadically at various cultural institutions. During the sixties, his works encompassed a variety of subjects: portraits of people around him, interiors, vegetal themes, and cityscapes, all painted directly from the motif. These works were often interrupted and resumed over an extended period. In the late sixties, drawing took up more time and space in his production. He created several autonomous drawings depicting the interiors and bathrooms of the places where his life and work occurred. Specifically, his deep dedication to drawing was crucial to his painting purging. His paintings' composition became more apparent as the paint coating gradually lightened. During this phase, he worked equally in all three artistic languages that helped him express and communicate his subjects: drawing, painting, and sculpture. Throughout these years, Antonio López participated in numerous group exhibitions and a few solo shows. Of the latter, those organized by the Staempfli Gallery in New York in 1965 and 1968 were most prominent because they had a significant impact. Both exhibitions brought him international recognition while opening the way for his works into various American collections interested in Spanish Realist Art. This interest coincided with the rise of realistic and hyper-realistic styles in the United States. His next solo exhibition was outside Spain, at the Parisian gallery Claude Bernard in 1972. Over this period, he continued making drawings and oil paintings with intense realism in which the interiors and windows of his studio were the protagonists. Antonio worked exhaustively on these artworks over long periods, using different techniques and formats, and adjusting to reality, achieving precise light studies. His solo exhibition at the Galatea Gallery in Turin sparked a positive reception of his art in Italy, where his work became part of several collections. Among the paintings in the exhibition were some from the late fifties with a surreal undertone. It also displayed various pictures from the sixties with a realistic approach and some polychrome bas-reliefs. Italian public found something familiar and appealing in the latter, given that this sculptural technique has been closely linked with Italian art since ancient times. Italian art influenced Madrid's realist artists, including Antonio López. With these artists, he had a strong bond of friendship and fellowship. Besides art, the Italian Neorealist Cinema of the forties impacted them profoundly because it captured reality with high fidelity and expressiveness. In their unadorned and without redeeming features representations of life, the Madrid Realists shared Neorealist cinema's objective and straightforward approach. In 1970, Antonio became represented by the Marlborough Gallery, which today remains his gallery. Three years later, Marlborough prepared a major collective exhibition devoted to Spanish Realism at its London headquarters. The show introduced the two main generations of Spanish Realist painters and sculptors of the time, including Antonio López. In 1974, he received the Darmstadt City Award for his double portrait in polychromed wood, Antonio y Mari (1968). The portrait belongs to the Städtische Kunstsammlung in that city that deposited it at the Hessisches Landesmuseum. A few years later, in 1983, he received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts of Spain and the Pablo Iglesias Prize in the Visual Arts. 1985 was a significant year in Antonio López's career. The Juan March Foundation organized Antonio's first retrospective exhibition in Spain at the Albacete Museum. That same year, he was selected to represent Spain along with Eduardo Chillida and Antoni Tàpies in the Spanish art show "Europalia 85 Spain". This show was held in Brussels and other Belgian cities and resonated with critics. This year, he was also awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, one of the most prestigious Spanish art prizes. In 1986, the Marlborough Gallery presented his solo exhibition at its headquarters in New York and London. Then, in 1990, the movie director Víctor Erice filmed the film The Quince Tree Sun, showing the creative process of Antonio López. After its release in 1992, the movie was awarded the Prize of the International Critics and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of that year; together with the Golden Hugo for best fiction film at the International Film Festival Chicago 1992 and with the Award for Best Film of the decade by the Cinematheque Ontario in 1999. The Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía Museum arranged his first major retrospective exhibition in 1993, showing almost his entire production. Displaying a hundred and seventy works that included drawings, sketches, paintings, and sculptures. This exhibition brought recognition to his work. He became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid that same year. Antonio was chosen for the exhibition "Identità e alterità", curated by Jean Claire, in 1995. First hosted at the Palazzo Grassi, then at the Museo Correr, both in Venice, Italy. Antonio was elected two years later to the Prado Museum board of trustees, a post he held until May 2009. Then, in 1999, the City Council of Valladolid commissioned Antonio López and Francisco and Julio López Hernández with a monumental bronze statue of the King and Queen of Spain seated. It was the first sculpture made as a group work by these three sculptors. The statue was installed in 2001 in the cloister of the Museum of San Benito in Valladolid - now the Patio Herreriano. In October 2001, the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía Museum organized a presentation to exhibit the pair of his sculptures, Hombre y Mujer, along with nineteen preparatory drawings, which had just become part of the museum collection thanks to the donation of Repsol YPF. In this manner, they joined three other significant works by Antonio López already in the museum's permanent collection: Los novios (1955), Madrid desde el Cerro del Tío Pío (1962-1963) and Madrid desde Capitán Haya (1987-1994). In recent years this institution has acquired other notorious pieces of the artist. In 2004, in recognition of his work, he was appointed Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. In July, he received the Medal of Honour from the Menéndez Pelayo International University and, in September, the City of Alcalá de Henares Arts Award. In 2006, he installed the largest urban painting he has made to date, Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas, in the Madrid Assembly, which exceeds four meters wide and represents almost the entire surface of the city seen from the Fire Tower in Vallecas. In addition to documenting the city, thus depicting its most characteristic buildings with the definition that this aim required, it also includes a substantial study of the light and the sky, which do not escape pollution, thus achieving a truthful and recognizable image of Madrid. In June of that year, he received the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, the highest honour in the Fine Arts conferred by the Government of Spain. In 2008, he completed his first solo public sculpture commission: two monumental bronze heads three meters high representing his baby granddaughter. These works, El Día y La Noche, were then installed in their first location at Atocha station in Madrid - the entrance hall to the train platforms. They are currently outside the station. These sculptures inspired him to work on different sculptural works focused on the human figure. In April 2008, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston dedicated to Antonio a solo exhibition that garnered him international critical acclaim. In parallel, the museum hosted a historical show dealing with Spanish art during Philip III's reign: El Greco to Velazquez. Art During the Reign of Philip III. In February 2010, he received the Penagos Drawing Prize from the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid. In October of that same year, La mujer de Coslada, his second public sculpture, was inaugurated on the Avenue of La Constitución of that Madrilenian municipality. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum opened Antonio's solo exhibition in June 2011. This exhibit brought together a retrospective view of his work and the presentation of his latest creations, which had not yet seen the light. From October 2011 to January 2012, this show was also displayed at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, confirming the enormous interest his work aroused among the public and critics, both nationally and internationally. Success continued with his travelling exhibition held at several museums in Japan during 2013, starting on April 27 at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo. The following year, Vittorio Sgarbi invited him to participate in the renowned Festival La Milanesiana 2014, which dedicated to him a special exhibition in which his painting La Cena and its preparatory drawing were exhibited in front of Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus, thus enabling a new reading of these works. In December 2014, Antonio delivered the painting La Familia de Juan Carlos I (The Family of Juan Carlos I). A complex work that required dedication, and he worked intermittently for twenty years. It is a painting of significant magnitude, not only because it is a portrait of the Royal Family, which links it to Spanish monarchy portraits painted by artists from past centuries, but also due to its large size - 300 x 340 cm. In this painting, the artist incorporated countless hours of effort into the composition by working from photographs instead of drawing from life. This picture was shown to the public at an exhibition about royal portraiture organized by Spanish National Heritage at the Royal Palace of Madrid. The exhibition was entitled El Retrato en las colecciones reales. During the same month, a solo show was dedicated to him in Vicenza, Italy, under the title "Antonio López García. Il silenzio della realtà, La realtà del silenzio", lasting nearly three months. While it had some retrospective character, the spotlight focused on his sculptures and various recent oil drawings, both dealing with the naked human form. Antonio López showed his latest work to the Italian public more than forty years after his last solo exhibition there. They gave him a warm welcome. In parallel and in the same city, an exhibition dedicated to the night was held: Tutankhamon, Caravaggio, and Van Gogh. La será e i notturni dagli Egizi al Novecento. In addition to works by Zurbarán, Van Gogh, Rothko, and Francis Bacon, Antonio López contributed four artworks to the exhibit. In February 2016, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid exhibited Realistas de Madrid, a show about figurative artists from the fifties and sixties who worked in Madrid. This exhibit was a new opportunity for the public to see Antonio's work, along with that of his fellow artists Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco and Julio López, María Moreno, Amalia Avia and Esperanza Parada, thus providing a comparison between their different attitudes regarding themes and technique, but also to see their points of convergence. In September 2017, his most extensive public sculpture to date, La mujer del Almanzora, was erected between the Casa Ibáñez Museum and the Pérez Siquier Center in Olula del Río, Almería. He published his first artist book, Cuerpos y Flores, with Artika Publishing House on the same date. In October of the same year, he received the title of Honourary Academician from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. The following year, he was awarded several prizes: Doctor Honoris Causa from the Complutense University, Madrid; the Medal of Honour from Carlos III University, Madrid, and the Collegiate of Honour from the Madrid College of Architects. On April 26, 2019, an individual exhibition opened at Silos Monastery. While focusing on some of his latest flower works, including a large part of his Rosas de Ávila series, it also fitted some of his representations of children. This selection gave an intimate and contemplative character to the show. After almost six months, it closed on October 13, 2019. On February 17, 2020, his wife, the painter María Moreno, died at 86. In September 2020, the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia opened a retrospective exhibit curated by Tomás and Boye Llorens. The show included a wide choice of recent and in-process works by Antonio. The exhibition also displayed a selection of works by María Moreno in two rooms. Although the show coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, it was developed with the necessary measures and restrictions, achieving an excellent turnout that enabled its extension until February 28, 2021. From April 19 to June 20, 2021, the Region of Madrid government dedicated a tribute exhibition to Antonio. His monumental sculptures, Carmen Awaken and Carmen Asleep, were displayed on the patio of the institution's headquarters in the Real Casa de Correos at Puerta del Sol Square, Madrid. In February 2023, on the occasion of the ARCO art fair, El Corte Inglés paid tribute to Antonio by holding an exhibition of his sculptures in the windows of its building on Calle Preciados in Madrid. It is the same building from which he paints the Gran Vía Flight every summer. At the same time, El Corte Inglés dedicated the ARCO stand to him. A six-meter wide reproduction of his painting Madrid Sur, finished in 2022, occupied all the space. The same year, he collaborated with the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona in the production of Franz Schubert's Winterreise recital. Tal Rosner used photographs of Antonio's artworks in a video that served as the scenery for the concert under Bárbara Lluch, the stage director, held in the former Model prison in Barcelona on March 23, 24 and 25. In addition, the Liceu organized an individual exhibition in the fifth gallery of the ex-jail, converted into a cultural centre, that lasted three weeks. Antonio's works were displayed inside prison cells, giving them new meaning and context. Antonio's first retrospective exhibition in Catalonia opened on September 21, 2023, at the La Pedrera Foundation headquarters in Gaudí's Casa Milà. The show included more than one hundred pieces from the beginning of his career to the present. Among the latter, he showed some paintings depicting his home, still in progress, alongside a sculpture on the same theme. This exhibition travels in January 2024 to the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, where it is on display until June 2. With almost the same list of works, but with the addition of the painting Woman in the Bathtub from 1968, this is the artist's first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. On the occasion of fifty years of bilateral relations between China and Spain, between November 2023 and May 2024, an exhibition dedicated to contemporary Chinese and Spanish figuration was shown in the Asian country. Starting at the Quan Shanshi Art Center in Hangzhou, then travelling to the National Grand Theatre, Beijing, on December 2023, The show Contemporary Chinese and Spanish Figurative Painting presented an extensive representation of Chinese and Spanish figurative artists from the 1950s to the present. In April 2024, the collaboration between both countries culminates in the exhibition Beyond Realism: Figurative Art from China and Spain at the Royal Palace of Madrid. Source: Based on the biography published in the TF 2011 book, reformed, expanded and translated by Beatriz Hidalgo Caldas Date: April 2023

Links to some of the latest interviews and articles on Antonio López in the written press, on the radio and on Spanish Television. SELECTION OF INTERVIEWS AND A RTICLES ON RADIO: Gente despierta, Radio Nacional de España, 20 October 2023 RAC1 , Versió RAC 1, 21 September 2023 Hour 25, Las entrevistas de Aimar, SER, November 4, 2021 Latest NEWS AND press interviews: La Vanguardia , 11 February 2025. La Tribuna de Ciudad Real , 22 January 2024 El Debate, 12 December 2023 La Vanguardia , 8 &10 December 2023 La Lectura, suplemento de El Mundo , 18 October 2023 La Razón , 22 September 2023 ABC de Córdoba, 19 May 2023 Fuera de Serie, supplement of Expansion , 9 January, 2023 El País, 20 November 2022 El cultural , supplement of El Español , 14 March, 2022 ABC , 9 March 2022 Interviews and reports on RTVE: RTVE a la carte, Antonio López VIDEOS & documentaries: Documentary produced by La Pedrera for his exhibition at this Cultural Institiution from 21 septiembre 2023-14 enero 2024 Painting in Sol square, Youtube Chanel of ABC Journal, August 202 3 *Access these resources by clicking on them. Anchor 1

This section is dedicated to the film directed by Vïctor Erice about Antonio López's work process, The Quince Tree Sun, shot in 1990. 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 THE QUINCE TREE SUN 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 :

List with links to some of Antonio López's works in national and international collections. Online access to various works by Antonio López in several collections In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid In the MOMA, New York In the Fundació Sorigué, Lérida In The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland: Boy Remains from a meal In the Fundación Juan March, Palma In the Royal Collections of Spain's National Heritage, Madrid In ARTIUM, Álava In the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao In the BBVA Collection, Madrid In the Iberdrola Collection, Bilbao In the Museo Provincial, Jaén In the Museo-Casa Ibáñez, Olula del Río, Almería In the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid At the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts In The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio In the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris In the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagasaki ancla cero CONTACT estudioantoniolopez@gmail.com

Videos of interviews and reports on exhibitions and works by Antonio López. 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.

This section is dedicated to the digitisation of Víctor Erice's film, The Quince Tree Sun, about Antonio López's work process. DIGITISATION OF THE FILM 'EL SOL DEL MEMBRILLO' The process of digitisation of the movie has been conducted at the Fillmoteca de Catalunya, where the 35mm negatives of the original film have been scanned at 6K and the sound has been also digitised from the analog magnetic tracks. Thanks to this digitization, of such high quality, scenes shot on video have gained in image quality. The procedure began in the summer of 2016 and took around a year to be completed under the direct supervision of the director of the film, Víctor Erice, who took the chance to review and subtly change the montage, by reducing its length in 5 minutes. This new montage was presented in May 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival, coinciding with the twenty-five years of the appearance of the film at the festival. BHC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.victorerice.com/ Digitalización El sol del membrillo Centro de Restauración de la Filmoteca de Cataluña Estudio de sonido de la Filmoteca Parte del equipo de la digitalización de la película en la Filmoteca de Cataluña Escáner digital Centro de Restauración de la Filmoteca de Cataluña Digitalización El sol del membrillo Centro de Restauración de la Filmoteca de Cataluña 1/5

Dossier by the Studio of Antonio López on his monumental sculptures of baby heads Carmen Despierta and Carmen Dormida. DOSSIER OF MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES; CARMEN AWAKE AND CARMEN ASLEEP Anchor 1