VIRGINIA LOPEZ
GIJON 1975
Virginia Lopez was born in Gijon, Spain, in 1975. She is graduated in History of Art (1998, Spain) and in Visual Arts (2011, Fine Arts Academy, ABAF, Florence, Italy- Aalto Uniersity of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland) .Her works rise from an important study of the old pictorial and photographic techniques, and the use of the metamorphical material: the wax.The questions raised by her work are existencial: time, memory.. open questions that keep coming all the time
Her art works are now in private and public collections all around Europe (Pinacoteca Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Gaeta, Italy | Spanish Embassy in Rome | Hotel Tuscany Inn in Montecatini Terme, Coleccion Principado de Asturias, Spain | Unicaja collection, Spain) and in USA.
INDIVIDUAL SHOWS
2012
Ephemeros, Galleria Lato,curared by Fabrizia Bettazzi and Luca Gambacorti, Prato, Italy.
Ephemeros, Eletto Galerie, Bern, Switzerland. curator Christian Herren
Dimensions, installation, art in public spaces,(Samuel Métraux+Virginia Lopez) Wasenhausplatz, Bern, Switzerland, Eletto galerie.
2010
"Contrasted/Materia instabile" Palazzo Chianini-Vicenzi. Arezzo. Curator Matilde Puleo. Mega+Mega Centro d'Arte Contemporanea.
“Animula”, galeria Dasto, Oviedo, Spain. Curator Ivan Dasto
2009
“Visivagante” Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence.Curator Matilde Puleo
“Sospensione” Dora Diamanti Arte Contemporanea, Rome. Curator Micol De Veroli
2007
"Pasajes-Permanencias" Galleria Tornabuoni, Pietrasanta, Italy. c. Fabio Fornaciai
"Trasposiciones. Detras del espejo" Sala Unicaja, Malaga, Spain.
"Trasposiciones" Sala 1, C.C.A.I , Concillorship Museum Department Gijon, Spain.
2006
"Sedimenti" Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence. Italy. C. Fabio Fornaciai
"Hilvanadas" Sala Borron, Oviedo.Culture councillorship, Spain.
"Hilvanadas" Casa Municipal de Cultura, Aviles, Spain.
2004
"Espacios de la memoria"Certaldo in Cornice, Certaldo, Italy. C. Marta Casati.
last GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection- last 5 years)
2012
TERRIBILITA E VAGHEZZA, curated by Lucia Giardino, Villa Bertelli (LU), Italy.
DALL'ALTO E DALL BASSO, curated by Matilde Puleo, Plalazzo Chianini Vicenzi, Arezzo, Italy.
GAT award, Curated by Matteo Inocenti and Andrea Granchi, Villa La Vedetta, Florence.
SCRITTURE LIBERATE, libro d'artista. Foyer teatro delle Arti, FI. A cura di Andrea Granchi.
2011
OUVERTURE N°1, allegroDeciso, site specific Mezzano (PR), c. Silvia Petronici
PRIVATE FLAT#7 Shameless/ Today is may day , curator Federica Faraone and Petra Brezaskova. Florence.
RESTIAMO CORTESI, Opio5 Gallery, Montepulciano (SI), c. Matilde Puleo.
ASSONANZE./FELTROSA, Fabbrica, Gambettola (Forli) c.Vanna Romualdi ed Eva Basile.
A DORA, Dora Diamanti Arte Contemporanea, Roma, c. Micol di Veroli.
SCORPORO, Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta (LT) c. Adriana Soldini
ONIRICUM, Museo La Specola di Firenze. c. Angelo Pieroni.
RITRATTARE Galleria Obraz, Milano. c. Andrea Lacarpia.
TIME IS ART, Palazzo Levi, Firenze. C. Silvia Petronici.
LA RIPRESA DELLA BASTIGLIA attacchi d'arte contemporanea, Villa Il Palagio, FI.
Passion| Chiesa san Giovannino dei Cavalieri, FI, La Notte Bianca.
2010
EPHEMEROS video project , curator Ilpo Kari from MediaLab Taik, Helsinki, Finland.
POROSAFARI, performance & video, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
MUSAE 2010, art under 35, Milan- Puglia- Trentino, Italy. Museo Urbano Sperimentale d'Arte Emergente.
PRIVATE FLAT #6 "Brucia Babilonia". Florence, c. Matilde Puleo
START POINT 2010, Galleria Varart, Florence,c. Laura Vecere, Giovanni Pozzi e Vanna Rizzolini
Traiettorie liberate" Ex-Leopoldine, Florence. c. Andrea Granchi for Start Point 2010.
“Jóvenes valores del arte actual” Sala de Arte Van Dyck, Gijon, Spain.
2009
LO STATO DELL'ARTE, galleria Obraz, Milan.c. Loris di Falco.
“Animali fantastici-Bestiario d’artista” Santa Caterina Museum, Treviso. c. Chiara Casarin
Di-gi Arte Materia/Antimateria. Centro Antonio Berti. Florence, Italy.
National Archeologic Museum, Florence.
“The river of memories” Galeria Weber-Lutgen, Sevilla. Spain.
“Jóvenes valores del arte actual” Sala d’Arte Van Dyck, Gijon, Spain
“Passeggiate fiorentine” galleria Babele, Florence. c. Laura Accordi.
2008
“Q 7×7” Museo Provincial de Guadalajara, Logroño, Salamanca, Madrid. Bruxelles.
“Q 7×7” Euro Celtic Art Festival, Lorient, France. Curator Griselda Coro-Niembro.
“Re-thinking Monna Lisa” Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy.
“Jóvenes valores del arte actual” Sala d’Arte Van Dyck, Gijon, Spain.
2007
“Q 7×7”, Sala Borron, Oviedo- Casa Municipal de Cultura, Aviles, Spain.
"Jovenes valores de arte actual", Sala Van Dyck, Gijon, Asturias, Spain.
Sala Italcable, Unicaja Foundation, Malaga, Spain.
Galeria Guillermina Caicoya, Oviedo, Spain
"Mare Terra Mare", Galleria Babele, Fano-Florence.Italy.
"Presencias XIV" works on paper, Malaga, Spain.
"Il paese dei balocchi", San Francesco Museum, Greve in Chianti. Italy
AWARDS
2004 - I International Visual Art Contest, EM'ARTE, Castellina Marittima, Pisa. Italy
2006 - Young Artist Award, Sala Borron, Culture Councillorship, Asturias, Spain.
2005 - V Certamen Provincial de Artes Plasticas, Malaga, Spain.
2007 - XVIII Muestra de Artes Plasticas, Culture Councillorship, Asturias, Spain
2010 - Erasmus Fine Art Accademy Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.
2010 - Combat Prize, Italy special mention. Catalogue ed. Sillabe. Livorno, Italy
2010 - Bando Musae, artist under 35. Italy
2011- Premio Ora, selected artist, president Carolina Lio.
2012- GAT award (Giovani Artisti di Talento). 2° prize.
