The figure of Antonio Lopez could well be associated with those of a select number of painters - Bacon and Balthus are the finest examples - who, in a century dominated by various avant-garde
trends and their legacy, have constructed their oeuvre on the margins of this tradition.
Antonio Lopez is a Realist painter and, as such, aspires to create a faithful pictorial testimony of the world around him - the city in which he lives, the intimate spaces and insignificant
objects of his personal environment...