Antonio López García

Little is known about the figure of Isabel Santaló, an old artist, today fallen into oblivion. But occasionally some visitors come to her flat. Through them and the voice of Antonio López (Dream of Light, Víctor Erice), the only painter who remembers her, we shape a multifaceted film. This is a cinematic portrait, which well into the film takes a surprising turn. A film that reflects on memory and oblivion, art and the creative process; posing the question of what it means to be an artist and a woman.

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

A documentary on the painter Antonio López and his day-to-day work.

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film, observing how the painter Antonio López worked. Erice wrote and selected the texts which illustrate them. Apuntes is split in 6 parts to show López’s 6 projects.

スペイン現代美術を代表する画家アントニオ・ロペスの創作過程を追ったドキュメンタリー・フィルム。アントニオ・ロペスは、二〇世紀後半の世界の美術界で注目される「マドリード・リアリズム」の中心的存在で、寡作で知られる画家。彼の長年のテーマである陽光に輝くマルメロの実を描くことを中心に、彼をめぐる世界の、様々な側面を描いていく。

スペイン現代美術を代表する画家アントニオ・ロペスの創作過程を追ったドキュメンタリー・フィルム。アントニオ・ロペスは、二〇世紀後半の世界の美術界で注目される「マドリード・リアリズム」の中心的存在で、寡作で知られる画家。彼の長年のテーマである陽光に輝くマルメロの実を描くことを中心に、彼をめぐる世界の、様々な側面を描いていく。