/ABOUT ME
Huancayo, Perú — 1984
Possessing a bold and contemporary approach to watercolor, Nicolás López presents a deeply personal semiotic language marked by experimentation and refined technical innovation.
His aesthetic vision operates on multiple levels—psychological, mythological, symbolic, and material. Under the pretext of landscape, he interprets a social reality that tells the everyday drama of a Peru with open veins, at times becoming universal in its resonance.
This intimate monologue never underestimates its viewer. On the contrary, through a profound Kafkaesque filigree, it reveals subtle fractures in human nature and its surroundings: the suburbs, abandonment, a tangle of roots and cables, the vastness of salt flats, a highway, the solitude of bridges.
Bare and fleeting spaces give way to reflections and shadows, which ultimately become the true signifiers of his work. Unconcerned with literary mystery as metaphor, López gives voice to the explicit silence found in these forgotten corners.
The figurative anchor is a minimal close-up—just enough to remind us that we are still standing, without knowing why, upon the surface of this infinite earth.
Vladimir Merchensky
Buenos Aires, Marzo de 2019
/AWARDS
Honorable Mention
Tláloc Award, Mexico, 2018
Honorable Mention
100th International Open Exhibition, United States.
Jury Prize
IX Latin American Meeting of Marine Painters, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2015
1st Place
Quick Painting Competition, Cajamarca, Peru, 2013
1st Place
42nd ICPNA National Watercolor Exhibition, Peru, 2014
1st Place
Quick Painting Competition, San Martín de Porres, Cloisters of the Convent of Santo Domingo in Lima, Peru, 2014
1st Place
43rd National Watercolor Exhibition ICPNA, Peru, 2015
1st Place
XVI Cultural Meeting of Landscape Painters, Río de los Sauces, Córdoba, Argentina, 2015
1st Place
XXXIII National Painting Competition “Valdivia and its River”, Chile, 2015
1st Place
Meeting of Painters “Painting the Bay of San Antonio”, Argentina, 2016
1st Place
Mario Urteaga Alvarado International Painting Competition, Cajamarca, Peru, 2016
1st Place
International Meeting of Landscape Painters, Merlo, Argentina, 2016
1st Place
“Hermann Immanuel Kunstmann”, Valdivia Art and Beer Painting Competition, Chile, 2016
2nd Place
XXIX Watercolor Competition “Peruvian Landscape”, John Constable Prize, Peru, 2019
2nd Place
II Teodoro Núñez Ureta National Quick Watercolor Painting Competition, Arequipa, Peru, 2015
2nd Place
First National Meeting of Painters Maypu, Mendoza, Argentina, 2015
2nd Place
XIII Cultural Meeting of Landscape Painters in Achira, Córdoba, Argentina, 2015
2nd Place
11th Watercolor Competition, Tláloc Prize, Mexico, 2017
2nd Place
5th A Gallery International Watercolor Biennial, Serbia, 2018
