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Antonio López works from within the disciplinary core of Western painting while staging its subtle dislocation. Educated within the canon of haute Western art—first in Chicago, then at the Städelschule in Frankfurt under Monika Baer—his practice assumes abstraction not as a neutral language, but as a historically loaded system of refinement, exclusion, and self-legitimation. For Liste, the tension between postwar European abstraction and elements drawn from Colombian visual registers is extended spatially through the booth's architecture. One side is conceived as closed, producing a moment of opacity and frontal containment; the other opens onto a continuous interior view, exposing the paintings in relation to one another. This oscillation between enclosure and disclosure mirrors the logic of the work itself: a painting practice that both performs the closure of Western abstraction and quietly undermines it.

Antonio López (b. 1993, Quito, Ecuador) engages with the polemics of pictorial representation in relation to human mobility and the production-reception cycles of image-making. Working across painting, drawing, video, and writing, he produces images that fluctuate between states of accumulation and loss.

Currently based in Frankfurt am Main as a recent graduate from Städelschule - Class Monika Baer (2024), he previously attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2017). Recent solo exhibitions include Trotter at Balice Hertling, Paris (2025). Hydra (or downtown) at Louche Ops, Berlin (2024). Flintlock at Echo, Cologne (2023). Errandt at Rudimento, Quito (2021). Selected recent exhibitions include include Dureé at Dawid Radziszewski, Vienna (2025). Abstractionism at Blue Velvet, Madrid (2025). Perennials at Balice Hertling, Paris (2025), New Order at Echo, Cologne (2023). Tidal at Fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (2023) among others. Recently selected artist in residence for the upcoming Aranya Art Center - Winter Residency 2026 (March) in Chengde, Hebei Province - China.