From that work emulating the artists of the Prado Museum, Manuel López Herrera (Madrid, 1946) has been left with the inclusion of some great classical paintings in his works, from baroque to pop art. And his enjoyment of drawing, the combination of these within large-format pieces in which he plays at painting reality by touching it on tiptoe or turning it upside down. López Herrera composes his work playing with objects, double meanings, caricatured characters (with hair like a bird’s nest and stylized faces), unexpected scenes and a magical conception of the world (or at least the one he portrays in his paintings). ). “I paint what happens and what occurs to me,” the painter said this morning at the presentation of the exhibition ‘Evolution?’ which opens this afternoon in the Pedro Torrecilla room, of the Círculo Foundation.
With an ironic and fun imagination, López Herrera paints “very seriously” compositions that combine comics with classic backgrounds, graphite with oil, scenes that look like illustrations with boards full of sanity, black and white with a burst of color . The painter teaches and suggests with mastery and above all surprises by bringing quality to a painting that he entertains, in addition to leaving the viewer with their mouths open.
In the exhibition he has hung 34 paintings and 9 sculptures of birds, the same ones that are later found among his pictorial works and that he exhibits for the first time. His work can be visited until June 16 with two complementary activities: an intervention on Saturday of sound experimentation with Javier Benito and Mayte Santamaría (7:30 p.m.) and with a concert by Oihan, the personal project of Guillermo Aragón, drummer of Arizona Baby, on Thursday, June 6 at the same time.
