Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhause, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 10 March – 8 July 2012 Alt + 1000 Festival de Photographie, Rossiniere, 13 July - 22 September 2013 Panorámica Paisaje 1969 ‐ 2013, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 25 April - 7 July 2013 Expanded Geographies, Foto Festival 2015, Lianzhou, 21 November - 10 December 2015 Changing Circumstances, FotoFest 16th Biennial, Houston, 12 March - 24 April 2016 Pablo López Luz: Views from the Expanded City, Botanique, Belgium, 22 June - 24 July 2016 For another
Literature
Pablo López Luz, Barcelona: RM Verlag, 2010, p. 36 W. E. Ewing, Landmark, the Fields of Landscape Photography, London: Thames & Hudson, 2014 p. 108 A. Fabry, Urbes Mutantes 1941-2012: Latin American Photography, Barcelona: RM/ Toluca Éditions, 2013, p. 17 C. De Jaeger and R. Van Gansbeke, Mexico Megalopolis: Picturing Mexico Today, Tielt: Lannoo, 2016, p. 102
Catalogue Essay
'If the first impression is surprising, then there will be a second reading of the photograph. The second is the content, or the narrative behind an image.' Pablo López Luz
Pablo López Luz explores the relationship between humans and their environment in his landscapes with a focus on his home town of Mexico City. His experimentations with vantage points and framing challenge our way of engaging with a landscape. López Luz has exhibited at a number of institutions, including the International Center of Photography in New York and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and his work is held at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art holds another print of this image.
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.
Vista Aérea de la Ciudad de Mexico XIII from Terrazo
2006 Archival pigment print, flush-mounted. Image/Sheet: 100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Frame: 108 x 108 cm (42 1/2 x 42 1/2 in.) Signed in ink, printed title, date and number AP 2 on an artist label affixed to the reverse of the frame. From the sold-out edition of 6 + 2 AP.
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £16,250
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