Artist statement
As a native of Spain Luis González López attended Universidad Politécnica of Madrid studying architecture, graduating in 2014. It was during this time that he began to discover how these experiences would define his personal direction and unique style. During the summer of 2012, with a sketchbook in hand, he toured Southern Europe. Luis said “To this day I travel with a note-sketchbook. I later traveled and lived in South America and Asia for a combined two and a half years. Journeying to remote coastal communities and coming into close contact with indigenous people was life changing. Such as the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile, a place that preserved the heritage and culture of the ancient settlers. This area left a deep, lasting impression on me.”
The influence of his travels and studies are evident in his work, forms of architectural plans, symbols of exogenous cultures (often indigenous) and the use of colors. “My girlfriend, now my wife, moved to Guanajuato in 2019. We were looking for a more sedentary lifestyle that would allow me to develop my artwork into a larger format, one that my previous life of constantly traveling wouldn’t allow.”
Luis González Lopez is now in a new stage of research, an evolution of past experiences that are a vital part of an unknown horizon full of possibilities.