Caravaggio: A Radical Approach to the Truth
A lecture by David López Ribes
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DateNovember 21, 2024
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Event Starts7:00 PM
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LocationLoreto Theater
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Doors OpenLobby Opens 1 Hour Before Show Starts
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Ticket Prices$28
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AvailabilityOn Sale Now
Event Details
Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio, a 17th Century Milanese painter known for his realism, is most widely recognized for his influence on the Baroque style of art and prominence in the Catholic or Counter-Reformation art canon.
At this illuminating lecture, experience an approach to the work of Caravaggio, the first to use a technique known as "tenebrism", through the perspective of contemporary Spanish painter and multi-disciplinary artist, David López Ribes. This widely celebrated Spanish painter and multi-disciplinary artist and scholar will simultaneously be showing his highly spiritual and transcendental multi-media art in the Sheen’s Dilenschneider Gallery at his solo exhibit, art is revelation.
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David López Ribes
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.