DUVAN LOPEZ

Duvan López is a Colombian painter, sculptor, and poet. His work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art.

His style refers to constructivism, organic forms, geometry, primitivism, fiction, and life.

He is a connoisseur of art history and uses traditional painting techniques. In his works, color and form merge to communicate questions and suggestive situations that attempt to penetrate the mystery of the human.

Duván's digital art moves towards a new figuration and abstraction, searching for synthesis. The work moves from the minimalism of his ink drawings to the appropriation of modern graphics, to which he gives a new meaning.

As a whole, his work seeks light and transcendence with a particular language to create a pictorial discourse of great actuality. His quest is to unite the aesthetic with the ethical, based on the premise that art is a generator of humanity.

Bio

He began his artistic activity in Colombia, and in 1993 he started a period of travels that led him to exhibit in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, where he took up residence in 1998.

In 2008, he set up his studio in Besalú, a medieval village in Girona.

2009 promotes, the MAQUI (Museo de Arte de Armenia y del Quindío) in Colombia with a donation of 50 works, which increases annually.

In 2012, his first book, "Una Mirada que Incide" with his poems inspired by the natural parks of Colombia.- 2016, makes a permanent artistic intervention in the Chapel of Sant Martí de Capellada, Besalú (sXII), Spain, currently without worship, creating a space for reflection, a secular chapel, where every year a classical music festival and cultural events are scheduled.

In 2017, The Schengen Peace Foundation selected its sculpture "Peace Chair" as its new face for the Luxembourg Peace Prize awarded annually at the historic seat of the European Parliament in Luxembourg.

In 2017, the Sala Duván was inaugurated in his hometown Quimbaya, Quindío.

2019 gets the "Artist Award 2019" at the GBAF 2019 "Gimhae Biennale International Art Festival," Korea, for his work "Kaleidoscopes."

In 2022, opens his new studio 550sqm  in Besalú.

Duván is a member of the "Real Cercle Artístic de Barcelona".