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Raúl López García

Raúl at his studio in Stuttgart, Germany

Raúl López García (born in Mexico City feb. 7, 1961) is a mexican-german contemporary artist, painter and sculptor as well as graphic designer. 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 till 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. From 2008 he has lived and worked in Stuttgart, Germany. Exhibitions 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 work is 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 Universidad de Guadalajara in Mexico. Awards Raúl has received diverse awards such as the "First prize" in the "II Internacional Salón" ACEAS Barcelona 2004 or the "Best in Show“ - at Rhonda Schaller Gallery in New York 2007. Publications Some of his art works have been selected for diverse publications among others for the magazine Revista Mexicana de Sociología at the Universidad Autónoma de México and for the official cinema poster of Ciudades Oscuras by Altavista Films. Official website [1]