José Luis López Reus

Pepe López proposes three themes, simultaneously. One has to do with the intrinsic aesthetics of the craft of sewing. Another, with the beauty of the structure of macaws (“voladeras”) with which he makes an installation. Here López makes an analysis of those crossarms. A structural and aesthetic analysis linked to his profession as an engineer. Finally, the overlapping of planes also sewn in an intrinsic way with polyethylene bags, which instead of being discarded are superimposed by the artist to create textures and planes. These align him with the tradition of geometric colors advocated by Venezuelan artists like Soto, Cruz-Diez and Otero, but also make him a cultural reference point in a country whose artistic growth has been linked to those images, in the artist’s subconscious.

López gives consistency to those planes of bags, and he achieves depth by means of quilted lines on an acrylic surface where colors merge with the planes. An interesting proposal which also has an ecological undertone in the utilization of the “despised” plastic bags.