INMACULADA LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ

Architect and Artist.

@ilh.art

"I paint portraits investigating the representation of human duality from a metaphysical point of view, the common soul in all of us that empathically identifies with the whole and produces changes in our consciousness, existential changes, which leave a mark on our gaze as spectators, I think that the portrait makes the viewer empathize with the image and transmits both the essence of the being, as well as the experiences of oneself or others, the face is the blank canvas, the background on which things happen, the connection of the being with the environment , the human feeling that floods space and puts the human being at the center of existence and nature, I investigate the importance of the connection with the essence and origin of the human being.

Portraits, some of which are not common, as they arise from the assembly of different realities that I create, interpret and use based on observation and research of the character, changing their context and therefore, also their meaning, in favor of the creation of an image. new that transcends the character himself. This way of doing places part of the portraits in an ambiguous territory between figuration and abstraction.

This connection between the face and what happens keeps me motivated every day and because I feel that this tool is useful to sensitize human beings about the world around them and as a transformative element, my influences are found in Spanish contemporary art and British idiosyncratic figurative style, characterized by the use of pictorial deformation and ambiguity on the intentional level.

I paint in oil on canvas generally in large dimensions, the large format helps me create a sensation of divinity and elevates the perception of the metaphysical, magnificent, powerful and transformative self.

On a technical level, I am interested in discovering what aesthetic qualities this work process will provide to the painting, composing with the basic tools that a face offers me and creating the portrait from a world and a language that is not its own.

From a conceptual point of view, my interest lies in establishing a dialogue between the physical and the metaphysical, offering a contemporary point of view of painting and reflecting on this way of working that I propose."

Inmaculada López Hernández

(@ilh.art)

2023 December. Seville Mercantile Circle Exhibition.

2023 November. Accesit prize Almuzara painting prize 2023

2023 October. CEU Architecture Conference in Madrid. "The artist's gaze"

2023 September. Individual exhibition "The Metaphysical Look" Distrito001 Gallery Madrid.

2023 July. London and England Hotel Exhibition. Saint Sebastian.

2023 April. Antik Passion Almoneda. Ifema