Pablo López Luz - Photographs London Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Pablo López Luz (Mexican, b.1979) reinterprets the Mexican landscape in his photography, focusing on the implicit human presence within these environments. López Luz studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City before completing a master’s degree in Visual Art at NYU in 2006. In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious Velázquez grant from the Spanish government. He has exhibited at a number of institutions, including the ICP, New York and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and his work is held at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City and SFMOMA.

     

    Pablo López Luz has spent many years documenting every corner of his home town of Mexico City from the air for his series Terrazo 2005-07. ‘My specific intention is to re-interpret the classical notion of the Mexican landscape,’ explains López Luz. ‘This specific relationship between man and space is what brings most of my photographic work together, and is also probably the strongest viewpoint in both aesthetic and conceptual terms.’ Much like the New Topographics photographers Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams who came before him, López Luz explores the land altered by human presence but devoid of any humans. His experimentations with vantage points and framing challenge our way of engaging with a landscape. Another work from this series is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

    • Literature

      Pablo López Luz, Barcelona: RM Verlag, 2010, n.p.

    • Artist Biography

      Pablo López Luz

      Mexican • 1979

      Pablo López Luz reinterprets the Mexican landscape in his photography, focusing on the implicit human presence within these environments. López Luz studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City before completing a master’s degree in Visual Art at NYU in 2006. In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious Velázquez grant from the Spanish government. He has exhibited at a number of institutions, including the ICP, New York and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and his work is held at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City and SFMOMA.

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Vista Aerea de la Ciudad de Mexico XXIV

2006
Archival pigment print, mounted.
100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Signed, titled and numbered 3/6 in ink on an artist label accompanying the work.

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£8,000 - 12,000 

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