Raúl López García

The main creative source in my work is on the one hand, the human being, his trail, his nomadism and secondly the protocultural symbolism of signs such as glyphs, ideograms. These are frequently used elements in my work, expressing my fascination for discovering graphic language analogies among primitive, ancient and contemporary iconographies.

To carry out my work I use traditional and digital techniques such as painting, ceramics, assemblages, drawing, photography, and digital art.
Each concept means an exploration, a reinvention of its meaning. Signs and Trails, R-Books, Eternal Human, Silent Tribal Sounds are some concepts where I find an archaic and modern bridge, a journey through universal analogies without distinction between past and future.

Raúl

Raúl López García was born in Mexico City 1961, where he completed studies as a graphic artist at the "Academia Bernal" and later engraving at the "Instituto Cultural Cabañas" in Guadalajara, Mexico.
During his stay in Germany from 1990 – 2000 he attended the art school "Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart", he worked as an artist and designer and he took part in several international exhibitions. From 2001 to 2006 he lived in Paris and in Barcelona, where he worked as an artist in one of the "ateliers" granted by the "Cité Internationale Universitare de Paris" and he attended the sculpture workshop at the ADAC.
His work has been exhibited in different international art festivals and biennials such as in „Art Festival Hakone“ in Japan, at the FORUM 2004 in Barcelona, at the Biennial „Japó l‘Art Actual“ in Casa Batlló in Barcelona, at the „Mittelmeer-Biennale Polylog“ in Cologne and at the "Second Bronx Latin American Art Biennial 2010“ in New York. His works are also held in private collections, museums and institutions like in the Regional Council of Stuttgart and Tübingen, at the Museum House Javier de la Rosa in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, at the Fundació Catalunya-America in Barcelona or in the CCCV of the University of Guadalajara in...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 “Leafscape” – Tübingen City Library – Tübingen, Germany
2023 “Aleaciones” – Werk II – Dußlingen, Germany
2018 “Mixtures” – BPS (Suisse) – Basel, Switzerland
2016 “Menschenspuren” – Frankfurter Künstlerclub – Frankfurt, Germany
2014 “Tribal Sounds” – Galerie Dalmau – Tübingen, Germany
2011 “Miscellaneous” – Galerie Dalmau – Tübingen, Germany
2009 “Signos y Huellas” – Galerie von BÜZ – Minden, Germany
2008 “Zeichen und Spuren” – Heyd Gallery – Hildrizhausen, Germany
2007 “Metamorfosis” – Museo del Periodismo y las Artes Gráficas – Guadalajara, Mexico
2006 “Segni e Tracce” – Apollo Spaziocinema – Milan, Italy
2005 “In Memoriam” – Fundació Catalunya-América – Barcelona, Spain
2005 “Fusiones” – Central Library – Gavà, Barcelona, Spain
2004 “5nturas” – Galería Marc Sabata – Barcelona, Spain
2002 “Destinos” – Itinerant exhibition – Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico
2001 “Destinos: Dualidad Humana y Urbana” – Casa Vallarta – Guadalajara, Mexico
2000 “Presenze Urbane” – Rapsodia / Spazio d’Arte – Milan, Italy
1999 “Raúl a Milano” – Apollo Spaziocinema – Milan, Italy



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 “200 Years of the Present” – Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart – Stuttgart, Germany
2024 Arte Binningen – Cont...