Antonio de Felipe

ANTONIO DE FELIPE (Valencia, 1965).
"Sos Lichtenstein", 2000.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 130 x 130 cm; 137 x 137 cm (frame).
Antonio de Felipe's reinterpretation of the famous Drowning Girl is a brilliant exercise of pop appropriation where humor, cultural criticism and visual memory are combined with great efficiency. The piece takes as its starting point one of the most emblematic images of American pop art, the distressed woman among the waves created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1963, to transform it by means of an ironic displacement deeply linked to Spanish popular culture: the original text balloon is replaced by a direct reference to the well-known brand of rice SOS.
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.