edgar cano lopez
The visual art experience for Edgar Cano Lopez began with creating illustrations and scenography for university theater during his studies at the Faculty of Arts in Xalapa, Veracruz. In two decades of art production, he has been distinguished and awarded in various national and international competitions.
The paintings he creates focus on both the way they are made and on everyday events, which he reinterprets based on his personal experiences. He will change, combine, or highlight these events to create different ideas that bring together the artist, the viewer, their memories, and their imagination. The main focus is always the human body, which he paints in a way that tells stories blending real life and imagination. This creates a kind of logic that blurs the line between what's real and what's symbolic.
The painting that I do is interested, simultaneously, in its own process and in the events of daily life, reinterpreted from personal experience. This expands, juxtaposes, amplifies or accentuates them in order to create different evocations and a kind of point of convergence in which the author, the spectator, their memory and imagination and all or some segment of society will have to locate themselves. The axis, always figurative, but also recreated and complex, is the body, which is deposited on the canvas and configures narratives or correlates that combine reality and fiction until establishing a logic that intentionally dilutes objectivity and that, in turn, builds, a metaphor.
He has obtained multiple scholarships in the state of Veracruz for PECDA (2005 and 2009), the FONCA Young Creators scholarship (2010 and 2012), and at the end of 2014, he became a Member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA (SNCA) in the discipline of visual arts with a specialty in painting. With a large new painting project, he received this honor for the second time.
To date, he has solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and more than fifty group exhibitions in various cities within and outside of the country. He has shown his work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, England, Venice, Canada, the United States, Japan, Sweden, and Serbia. Among the collections where his work can be found, the following stand out: MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (Collection of the Tamayo Biennial); Museo Nacional de la Estampa MUNAE, Mexico DF; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce MACAZ, Morelia, Michoacán; Engraving Collection of the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca IAGO; José Guadalupe Posada Museum, Aguascalientes Ags.; Artistic Collection of the State of Veracruz IVEC; Artistic Collection of the State of Tabasco, Mex.; Collection of Visual Arts of the State of Chiapas; Collection of the International Art Studio Radovan Tranavac Mica, Valjebo, Serbia; Artistic Collection of the Lithography Workshop of La Ceiba Grafica, Coatepec, Veracruz; The Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; Grupo Milenio’s Collection, México D.F.; Collection of the Jagüey Institute, Teotihuacán, Mex.; Collection of the Friday Cottage Art Space, Columbia, SC., Northwestern State University of Louisiana, among other private collections. Edgar Cano moved to Louisiana to pursue his MA in Visual Arts at Northwestern State University of Louisiana with a full-ride scholarship. He lives with his family in Natchitoches and works as an Assistant Professor of Art at NSULA.
