Giant Heads At The Museum

Thank you for the photos. I am writing about this exhibition and there is no way I can find out if there are any more sculptures by Lopez Garcia in the exhibition. Do you have any idea? It would be a great help to know.
By the way, the same two baby-face HEADS are going to be in the Atocha train station in Madrid as a memorial for the almost 200 people killed on 11M.
If you are very interested I can try to send a summary on the article in El Pais.
Thank in advance.
Vera-Barcelona, Spain

Impresionante la exhibición que van a presentar, recuerden que es el "Realismo mágico", y aun está sin sitio en el mundo el "hombre caminando" de más de 20 mts de altura...

This man is an absolute genius. His meticulous attention to detail makes us look at our own reality in a pleasantly artistic way.

to Vera-Barcelona:
The MFA catalogue (available onine) for this show has been extremely helpful to me, as I am also writing on this exhibition. Cheryl Brutvan has an exellent history as curator of contemporary art at the MFA, but this catologue/interviews/research blew me away. The image quality is exellent and includes every piece in exhibition (several figurative sculptures, etc). Enjoy!

"Your fantasy reaches as far as your hands," Lorca once wrote to Dali. But his comment applies to Antonio Lopez, who celebrates the beauty of objects--- a flower, the angle of a city street, a terraza in Madrid. Viva la materia! and the wisdom of this artist, who celebrates it.

hey i think boston is pretty cool
so yup..thats it

This exhibit, alongside the ElGreco to Velasquez was responsible for perhaps the best museum experience I have had at the MFA Boston. It is well worth the trip! The Lopez-Garcia books are out of stock. I was told they should be back in by the end of May.

Finally the prejudice against figurative/realism is slowly but surely melting.
To deny representation to realistic forms based on so called "progressive ideas" is unacceptable and should have never have happened.
What is missing in today's contemporary scene is precisely a view like the one offered by Lopez Garcia of serenity and mistery combined with a deep understanding of life. Far from the commotion of today's art world where scandal seems to count more than true novelty.

I was impressed by his paintings. I do appreciate his great ability to gave the commonplace with a haunting and extraordinary character.

I do love MFA, but what a pity, I am just a visitor, I have to leave...

This exhibit proves, once more, that without the basic mastery of the academic realism the artist is walking on one leg only in his work. What a great complement the two exhibits are.

Both of these exhibits were exquisite and were so complementary of each other; examining both earlier Spanish work and a more modern style. I agree with the former comment about the need to be able to paint realistically before attempting other styles. I'm not sure if it's the training of the eyes or the hand or something altogether different that makes Antonio Garcia Lopez's work genius - but it's there!

hi all...last night watched Victor Erice's film Quince Tree Sun on Lopez Garcia and discovered this amazing painter. I'm a cinematographer and visual artist based in Calcutta, India. absolutely stunned and overwhelmed by the film as well as by the the paintings of Lopez Garcia- which I saw today on the internet. even in the low resolution, their power comes through.
the film is supposed to be very rare, but catch it if you can- it's available on Piratebay.