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DateNovember 13 - 26, 2024
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LocationJanet Hennessey Dilenschneider Gallery
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Doors OpenGallery Hours are 10:00AM to 5:00PM
- Tuesday, November 26, 2024 5:00PM 5:00 PM
Event Details
David López Ribes (born June 27, 1972) creates spiritual and transcendental works heavily influenced by his personal life. Through painting, sculpture and video art projected onto real objects, he addresses issues and ideas such as fatherhood, sacrifice, gift, transit and kingdom. He uses mixed media as an entry point to dialogue with the secular man, creating connections between Contemporary Culture and Faith.
David López Ribes’ video installations invite its viewers to reflect 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 can be seen in public and private collections nationally and internationally.
"An image is an impression of the truth, for the gaze of our blind eyes"
-Andrei Tarkovsky
"Mankind can live without science, without bread, but it cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world"
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
All are invited to join us for an Artist's Reception on Wednesday, November 13th from 5:30 to 7:30PM. Please RSVP at info@sheencenter.org.
Artist Bio
David López Ribes is a Spanish painter and multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in the New York area. López won the Pontifical Academies Prize in 2012, awarded by Pope Benedict XVI, for his contribution to Christian Humanism in the contemporary world. Since 1999, David López has partnered with fellow Spanish painter Kiko Argüello, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, to create more than 80 mural painting projects in liturgical spaces worldwide.
His work has been exhibited at the Charpa Gallery in Valencia (commissioned by the painter José Sanleón, and director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM Consuelo Ciscar), the Galerie Nichido in Japan, Marion Meyer Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach, California and Lowe Gallery in Los Angeles, among many others. Notable recognition includes Young Art Prize 96 from IVAJ (Valencian Youth Institute), Visual Arts Grant from the Generalitat Valenciana, the X National Painting Award Milagros Mir in Spain. He is a regular lecturer in American and European Institutions, including the Vatican.