Antonio de Felipe

ANTONIO DE FELIPE (Valencia, 1965).
"Audrey Hepburn", c. 2000.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm.
True to his style, the Valencian artist takes a universal icon of classic cinema, Audrey Hepburn, and reinterprets it through an aesthetic of flat colors, defined contours and a marked graphic vocation. Antonio de Felipe has built a large part of his career on the appropriation and resignification of images from cinema, advertising and mass culture. In this piece, the figure of Hepburn is decontextualized and turned into a visual emblem, close to the advertising language and the global collective imaginary. The work dialogues with the international pop tradition, heir to approaches such as those of Andy Warhol, where repetition, the media icon and popular culture become artistic matter. However, De Felipe brings a sensibility of his own, with a clean invoice and a brilliant finish that emphasizes the decorative and contemporary character of the image.
Antonio de Felipe, a graduate in Fine Arts from the University of San Carlos de Valencia, began his career as an advertising creative, an experience that decisively influenced his pictorial style. Considered a Pop artist, linked to the movement "Les nouveaux Pop", he develops his work in series such as Logotipos, Vacas or Cinemaspop, characterized by a clear, direct and visual aesthetic, with intense colors and simple themes oriented to the general public.
He has collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in Carne Trémula, worked for television and design, and participated in posters, covers and publications such as ABC, El País, El Mundo, Marie Claire or Rolling Stone. With more than ninety solo exhibitions in Spain and abroad, his work is part of collections such as the Reina Sofia Museum, the IVAM or the Montblanc Foundation, and has been present in international fairs such as ARCO, ART COLOGNE or KIAF.