"There is a constant image that lives in our unconscious, that tell us about the transition from the material to the metaphysical".
JOHNNY LOPEZ
Johnny Lopez (1988, Colombia) is an emergent and contemporary sculptor, that explore and express the connection to roots and surroundings, finding a universal language that can be shared and enjoyed by all, and that connects with all the strength and power of the ancestors. His artwork mixed the strenght of ancestral cultures and the color, ideas and expression of the pop art. He is a young artist that is making his way into the big leagues. He is a good investment, as well as a must piece in every collection, not just because of the investment, but as art and a way to connect with the strenght of the ancestral cultures.
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BIOGRAPHY
Johnny López, (sculptor), was characterized from a very early age by his active imagination and candid dedication to drawing. After graduating from primary and high school, he began his training in business administration and international business in Bogotá, but it was on 2010, during a visit to Europe, that he visited the Louvre Museum, and there, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's "The Mona Lisa," he remembered and rediscovered his love of art. He quitted to the career on business and in 2011 he began his artistic career, studying in Barcelona (Spain), first at the "Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc" under the tutelage of Maestro Josep Maria Cavane, and later taking free drawing and graphic design courses at the "Escola Massana". That same year, he came into contact with his dreamlike side and connected with the world of lucid dreams. It was through this mind-bending path that, during a retreat in the Sierra Norte, region of Madrid, he met and forged a connection with the Valencian drawing master Joan Castejon, who later invited him to his home and studio in the city of Denia, Valencia, where a close and beautiful friendship developed between the two artists.
In 2012, he moved to Florence, Italy, where he deepened his knowledge of the fine arts under the tutelage of several masters, including Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni, Rossana Pinero, and Gregory Burney, among others, at the renowned Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, where he became familiar with the astonishing art of the Renaissance. In 2015, he graduated with a degree in fine arts from the Florence campus of Marist College in New York, USA. In 2016, striving to follow in the footsteps of Master Fernando Botero, he was accepted as an official copyist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, coming into contact with the leading classical artists exhibited there and with the visiting public.
Today, his greatest inspiration comes when he closes his eyes and lucid dreams comes to him. It is in this magical world that he begins the gestation of his projects and work. " I really understood my work, and I start creating a dialogue between the past and the present, between tradition and modernity". A dialogue that would connect with ancestral power and the vivacity of the present. "So, I did not only fused iconography and color, but I created a symbolic language, with hieroglyphics and messages about power and energy that my works seek to convey through the strength and power of ancestral cultures. I've called this language Johnnyglyphs, and it has become an inherent part of my work, and a form of expression that seeks to strengthen self-sufficiency. That's why my artworks, more than anything else, are totems that represent power, strength, struggle, fertility, and so many other things that ancestral cultures valued and considered sacred parts of their culture".
Over time, his research continues to lead him to explore more about ancestral cultures. As in all his work, they are reinterpreted and fused with elements of Pop Art, such as color, texture, and irony.
He currently resides and has his workshop in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.