ADAN LOPEZ ALEMAN

Adán López Alemán is a Spanish expressionist artist, who has exhibited his work throughout Europe. Working with mixed techniques and materials; watercolor, acrylic, oils, pastels, and ink, Adan is transforming the subject matter into a symphony of expression and movement.

His “soul paintings” capture personality, soul, and storyline in each portrait. In a combination of realism and expressionism, an atmosphere or mood is created that is characteristic in his work.

When he embarks on the artistic process when painting a new portrait, at a certain moment, the presence of the person portrayed becomes inevitable. That point at which the change occurs from being a canvas that has pigment deposited on it, to being a person with a soul who is present in my studio, he calls “The Collision”. 

For Alemán, a portrait is not about painting a face, it is about painting the soul. “If I only tried to portray the features of a face or the forms of a body, the viewer would never be moved by my work. The key is to transmit an emotion, a feeling. First, you have to feel the work and then you can understand it. It is this approach that I always try to make with each work I create.”

Portraiture and the moving figure are dominating his artistic career. References from the inner being and the struggle in life, are the resulting alchemy of originality that makes it all a thoughtful experience. Lopez’s colorful black and white portraits are playing behind a “social mask”, opening the eyes, searching for the truth.

In his figure painting, we can feel the breeze and hear the wind moving through the bodies trying to hold on.