Pablo López Luz
Pablo López Luz (born Mexico City, 1979) is a Mexican photographer. López Luz has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. He has won multiple awards, including the Syngenta Photography Award and the Alt+1000 Photography Award. He has also published several books of his photographs.[1] In 2022 Javier Sirvent wrote that Pablo López Luz "can be considered among the main figures in contemporary Mexican photography".[2]
Career
[edit]Pablo López Luz grew up involved in the art world, since his father was a gallerist in Mexico City.[3] After studying at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, López Luz completed a master's degree in Visual Art at NYU in 2006. López Luz has exhibited in different venues including the Museo Tamayo,[4] Arróniz Arte Contemporaneo,[5] Museo Experimental el Eco,[6] and the Fondation Cartier.[7] His work is part of the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[8] and the Escalette Collection at Chapman University,[9] among other institutions.
Although he is well known for his aerial photographs, his projects are more varied. For example, for Piedra Volcánica he was commissioned by el Eco Museum to take a series of images about the museum's building, designed by architect Mathias Goeritz.[10] He has also worked extensively outside Mexico, for example in Romana Tropical he took photographs of the architecture of several Cuban cities.[11]
In 2010 he won the third edition of the Photography Prize of the Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA) in Rome.[12] In 2015, López Luz won the Project Launch Juror’s Award from CENTER for his Frontera project.[13] In 2019 he was a finalist for the sixth edition of the MAST Foundation Grant for Industry and Photography.[14]
He has given lectures about his work such as the 2021 Anderman Photography Lecture at the Denver Art Museum.[15]
Artistic style
[edit]In 2014 Mariela Sancari wrote about project Terrazo: "His images are an interesting example of reinterpretation of traditional Mexican landscape imagery, addressing this from the men-environment point of view".[16] Alasdair Foster wrote in 2020: "Through his photographs, Pablo López Luz seeks to investigate the relationships between human beings and the space they inhabit".[17] Arturo Soto wrote in a review of López Luz' 2019 book Bajo la Sombra de la Pirámide: "There aren’t many Mexican photographers working in the manner of Pablo López Luz, combining the vision and thematic focus of the New Topographics (particularly those of Lewis Baltz), the methodology of the Düsseldorf School, and the lyricism of Graciela Iturbide".[18] He has been mentioned along artists whose work is based on twentieth-century Maya Revival architecture, such as Eduardo Abaroa and Lourdes Grobet.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bio". Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ^ Sirvent, Javier (19 April 2022). "Baja Moda : "The Principle of Resistance" by Pablo López Luz". Blind Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Borst, Sarah (22 July 2015). "Pablo Lopez Luz". aint - bad. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Museo Tamayo". www.museotamayo.org. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Pablo López Luz". Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Volcanic Rock". Museo Experimental El Eco. 26 January 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia". Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. 13 April 2024. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "López Luz, Pablo". SFMOMA. Archived from the original on 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "La Frontera/The Border: An Interdisciplinary Examination: Pablo López Luz". Scalar. 26 March 2020. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Enrigue, Álvaro (30 October 2019). "An Index of Mexico City's Skin". Aperture. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Pablo Lopez Luz". The Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac (in French). Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Pablo López-Luz Photography Prize". Artnexus. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Smithson, Aline (14 April 2015). "Pablo Lopez Luz: CENTER's Project Launch Juror's Award". LENSCRATCH. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Pablo López Luz". Fondazione MAST. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Anderman Photography Lecture: Pablo López Luz | Denver Art Museum". Denver Art Museum. 12 January 2021. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Sancari, Mariela (29 August 2014). "Mexico Week: Pablo Lopez Luz: Terrazo". LENSCRATCH. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Foster, Alasdair (20 January 2020). "Pablo Lopez Luz: An Explorer of Space and Time". Talking Pictures. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ Soto, Arturo (26 April 2021). "The Modesty of Fundamental Signs: Recent Books by Pablo López Luz". AMERICAN SUBURB X. Archived from the original on 19 April 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Lerner, Jesse (6 July 2023). "Ch'u Mayaa and the Appropriation of the Past". 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. 4 (2): 245–258. doi:10.11588/xxi.2023.2.96033. ISSN 2701-1550.