David Lopez Ribes is a Spanish painter and multidisciplinary artist. He lives and works in Valencia. His studies took place at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV between 1991 and 1995, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City during 2003. David Lopez Ribes is the winner of the Pontifical Academies Prize 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, for his contribution to Christian Humanism on the contemporary.
Overview
David Lopez´s work is mainly pictorial, partly heir of informalism. However, as of the year 2000 he develops New Media. They are spiritual and transcendental works, which are clearly influenced by his personal life. Through painting, sculpture and video art projected onto real objects, he addresses issues such as: father, sacrifice, gift, transit and kingdom, in the content of his work and also has a constant preoccupation for using media as a means to dialogue with the secular man. Creating connections between Contemporary Culture and Faith. David Lopez Ribes video installations are designed to cause reflection on perception while at the same time reconsidering video as a medium in itself. They are images that want to be here with us out of the boundaries of the 'frame' and into real life images projected on real objects on the same action performed. They are multimedia installations that blur the boundary between the tangible and the transcendental. The nostalgia of harmony, the rejection of subjectivism, and liturgies of everyday life as an expression of moral integrity, are his cross-cutting themes. His work is present in public and private collections nationally and internationally. David Lopez is awarded with the Young Art Prize 96 from IVAJ in 1997, and has held art exhibits in the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, in the House of Culture of Castellón and Alicante´s 14 Center, among others. That summer he worked with painter Antonio Lopez. In August 1997 he moved to Paris, where he lived until 2000, a period in which he helped manage Cultural Affairs of the Instituto Cervantes in Paris and made his first solo exhibits in France. He also began his relationship with the Japanese Nichido Gallery, where he continuously exhibits artwork, both individual and collective. In 2001, art exhibit at Charpa Gallery, Valencia. In 2002, he received the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Generalitat Valenciana and thus traveled to New York in 2003, for a New Media Master´s at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2004,art exhibit at Edgar Neville Gallery in Valencia, commissioned by the painter José Sanleón, and director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM Consuelo Ciscar. In 2008, winner of the X National Painting Prize Milagros Mir. In 2011, another art exhibit in Valencia at the Palau de la Música. In the same year he participates in the exhibit Art + Fe' at the Pons Foundation in Madrid, within the official program of the World Youth Day 2011. This exhibit has been presented at the Cultural Institute The Brocense, in Caceres, Lisbon and is now coming to Castellon and Valencia. Lopez gives the inaugural speech. His artwork is present in public and private collections at a national and international level. From 1999, David Lopez, along with the Spanish painter Kiko Argüello and an international team of painters, develop a New Aesthetic for the Catholic Church in seminaries, churches and liturgical spaces worldwide.
