March 27, 2024, 3 pm
Many thanks to the artist James Krone introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of Louche Ops and guiding us through the exhibition Hydra (or downtown) by Antonio López. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Date: March 02 – April 27, 2024
Location: Louche Ops
Opening Hours: Saturdays, 1 – 6 PM or by appointment
Address: Viktoria Luise Platz 6, 10777 Berlin
“López’s paintings respond to traditions that consider the polemic of autonomy through fragmentation. In their layers of pictograph and gesture, his works allow for a collapse of the categorical differentiation between the symbolic and the indexical. What’s been painted, sometimes in density and at other times austerely stark, converges as strata. They’re reminiscent of a gap dissolve, where one scene from a film fades into the next, and for a brief moment the screen holds the overlay of conflated frames. But in painting, unlike cinema, little is ever coming or going, and this chimerical image is the soul remainder.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Louche Ops)
