The exhibition “This is how things are”

“This is how things are” pictorial tribute by the sculptor Carlos López to the master Ezequiel Padilla

From May 5 to 26 in Spain, the exhibition “This is how things are” by the Honduran artist Carlos López will open, as a tribute to the teacher Ezequiel Padilla.

López, who resides in Barcelona, Spain, will show 80 works between sculptures and paintings, to exalt the work of Padilla, who died in 1974.

The exhibitor has won the Euro Art Catalonia Prize for three consecutive years and has exhibited in different places in Barcelona.

His interest, according to López, is that the figure of his teacher be exalted as a bastion of art in Honduras and that his works speak of his legacy as his student.
Ezequiel Padilla was born in Comayagüela in 1944. From an early age he showed concern for developing an artistic career, he made copies of paintings that aroused his concern and artistic interest.

He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1968 and at the height of postmodernism in the 1970s, Padilla began to develop a more aggressive plastic proposal of a rebellious nature, influenced by expressionism, using painting as a support.

He is one of the most prolific painters of the generation of the 60s, he developed various exhibitions at a national and international level, among which the following stand out: Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey, Mexico, (2000); III Biennial of Brazil, (1996); Havana Biennial, Cuba, (1994); Latin American Art Gallery, Miami, (1993); Traveling exhibition, OAS at the Casa de América Latina, France, (1992) and II Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, (1989) among others.

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