Collection: Roberto López Martín

A graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, he also holds a master's degree in Art and Creation from the same university.

 

Sculpture

EDUCATION 2011/12 Master's Degree in Art, Creation, and Research from the Complutense University of Madrid. 2010 Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. CES. Felipe II. 2004 Advanced Degree in Sculpture. La Palma School, Madrid.

2016 UPHO SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Selected for the Urban Contemporary Photography Festival. ( MALAGA) Estampa 2016 within the program posterism by Pac 2013 Selected Study 120m Collective exhibition Wurth Museum, La Rioja, Collective exhibition "II Hall of Vanities: New Baroque, Ducal Palace of Carpio Córdoba. 2012 Selected in Exhibition Program, Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada, Madrid. 2011 Shortlisted lntransit Competition. 2009/2010 Course: Scholarship holder of Painting Techniques with professor Daniel Lupión at the CES Felipe II ( UCM ) Works selected for the Drawing Department collection ( UCM 2007 Selected for Exhibition Painting Competition Villa de Valdemoro, CC.00, Madrid. 2006 Selected for Exhibition Young Creators II Plastic Arts Competition, in painting and drawing categories. Aranjuez, Madrid.

AVATARS. KIDS TV.

Giovanni Sartori, in his work, warns about the impoverishment of understanding and the loss of the capacity for abstraction. Both of these facts would be caused by the primacy of image(the television) on the written word. 
Toys are an essential concept, and they take on their greatest value in the context of human development. It is through toys that children explore, discover, learn, and interact with the many objects and problems that form an important part of their proper development as individuals. 
The companion becomes a screen onto which their own emotional states are projected, which can then be articulated and managed. Stuffed animals are there when children feel left alone; they provide a firm footing and function as conversation partners, thus contributing to psychological resilience. 
For children, their companion has a personality and is almost alive. Intuitively, they attribute feelings and a personal will to it. In fact, they establish an imaginary relationship. ( “ relationship to social») , which allows the child to experience. 
Without embargo In the current era, play has become subject to large corporations and big brands that use toys to promote a way of life, setting patterns and consumer habits, leaving no room for this relationship since the product takes the lead. 
Nowadays, the ideal companion models personify something with their presentation, with the material and with the references ( by e.g. a TV show). Dolls have a skin color, stuffed animals refer to specific types of animals, and characters refer to specific shows, etc. . 
Through these works, I propose the symbiosis between children, brands, and games, the latter two of which are responsible for alienating the child's systems and limiting their system of social relationships. 
Changing it, transforming it to such an extent that its very childhood is disfigured. That is, it prepares the child for a new role, and what remains is the collaged creation of different habits, consumers. The The child is ultimately left behind in the tangle, the dislocation of the manipulation suffered and so can serve as a kind of product communicator and mediator between parents and children. 
The child, behind the created mask of false childhood, becomes a series, a reference of catalog , a kind of avatar or graphic representation, completely distorted, that is associated with a user for future identification in their demand. It is positioned behind the toy-product, acquiring those values, enhancing emotional anesthesia and following the pattern of what we call social networks. The child, behind the created mask of false childhood, becomes a series, a reference of catalog , a kind of avatar or graphic representation, completely distorted and associated with a user for future identification in their demand. It is positioned behind the toy-product, acquiring those values, enhancing emotional anesthesia and following the pattern of what we call social networks. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Photostrategies .Piotr Bogusz Studio Gallery ,Malmo ,Sweden. 2013 Where the codes play, AISGE Foundation, Madrid. Heroin (E) , Galleri Ocampo, Malmo, Sweden. 2012 Where the codes play, Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada, Madrid.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 StickersArt PAC Contemporary Art Platform 25th Anniversary of ESTAMPA. Matadero Madrid. The Host" curated by Boreal Projects with #impulsarte at Hybrid festival.Madrid FAC art fair in my house 2017 edition. (Madrid) 2016 UPHO Selected Urban Festival of Contemporary Photography. (MALAGA) Poster design by Pac Estampa matadero Madrid. 2015 Science Conference organized by the UCM, Bodies affected by technology and the media: experiences, stories and affections in post-traumatic societies. Collective exhibition “United for Freedom”. Espacio Pozas, Red Cross.Madrid 2014 Hostel art by Pac.the hat, organized by PAC (contemporary art platform). The tears of Africa, “L a Valla 100 artists on the Southern Border” Utopicus. Madrid.11.11, Collective exhibition at the Galileo Cultural Center. Madrid. 2013 2nd Urban Art Meeting of the UNED ‐ Madrid. Contemporary Drawing, Gallery Pilar Cubillo, Madrid. Cabinet of Curiosities, Project curated by Pilar Cubillo and Oscar GarcíaGarcía, Madrid. Estudio 120m Group exhibition Wurth Museum, La Rioja. Group exhibition “II Hall of Vanities: New Baroque” ”, Ducal Palace of El Carpio Córdoba 2012 Projector, International Video Art Festival - Spain - Latin America - Portugal. Etopeyas Exhibition, La Toma Gallery, Rosario, Argentina. Nests in Network Exhibition, Candilejas Theatre, Albacete. 2011 Group exhibition The Chemistry of Love, Group exhibition Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Group exhibition Misplaced 11, Interventions in the city of Albacete. Group exhibition Portrait: The Landscape of Memory, Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Centre, Fuenlabrada, Madrid (MNCARS branch) 2010 Exhibition We Play Dumb, La Asunción Shopping Centre, Albacete. Group exhibition IKAS —ART, Bilbao Exhibition Center, Bilbao. 2009 Exhibition Identity, Noaia Cultural Centre, Pontevedra, Galicia.