Rogelio López Cuenca

ROGELIO LÓPEZ CUENCA (Málaga, 1959).
"Today's prices".
Silkscreen paper, ex. 38/44.
Signed and numbered.
Measurements: 65 x 100 cm.
Graduated in Philosophy and Letters by the University of Malaga, Rogelio Lopez is doctor in Fine Arts by the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Considered a visual artist, he was a founding member, at the end of the 70's, of Agustín Parejo School, an activist collective through which poetic interventions were carried out in the urban space, practicing Copy Art and experimental poetry. It will be from the 80s when López Cuenca begins to sign his works individually, always understanding the process of artistic creation as a collaborative practice. Considering multidisciplinarity as a vital aspect in his works, he resorts to visual methods as well as to literature and social sciences. His work is based on visual and iconographic language that the artist finds both in advertising and in the media, transforming the original statements into poetic-ironic-political messages that the artist finds both on stickers and on signage tapes or billboards. Cuenca analyzes social issues and their representation in the media to give body to his works, thus demonstrating the important role that advertising plays in our society. Throughout his career as an artist, López Cuenca has received numerous awards and has been awarded several scholarships. Among many others, he received the Francisco de Goya award from the Madrid City Council in 2002, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Scholarship from the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1995 and the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Scholarship in 1991. Currently, López Cuenca's works can be found in different museums in Spain, such as the IVAM (Valencia), the MACBA (Barcelona), the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the ARTIUM (Vitoria), the MUSAC (León), and the Bank of Spain Collection (Madrid). His work can also be found at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts (Rome), the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (both in Havana), the BESART Collection (Lisbon), the Collection Fondation Colás and the Collection Fonds Nationals d'Art Contemporain (both in Paris).