Antonio de Felipe

ANTONIO DE FELIPE (Valencia, 1965).
"Sara I".
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 200 x 200 cm.
Work in which we can see how the artist has reinterpreted in pop key, a photograph of Sara Montiel. This photograph was chosen as the cover for issue 308 of Careta magazine in 1960.
A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of San Carlos Valencia, Antonio de Felipe began his career working as a creative artist in an advertising agency, a fact that would undoubtedly mark his future pictorial style. He is considered a Pop artist - or more specifically, part of the movement "Les noveaux Pop", together with other international artists linked to the Pop world - in the broadest sense of the word, developing his extensive work in different series (Logotypes, Cows, Cinemaspop, Popsport, among others) always maintaining a completely plastic and visual aesthetic, clear, addressing the common society. Fundamental is the colour, loud and provocative, as well as the subject matter, very simple and direct. His creative facet has led him to collaborate with Pedro Almodóvar in the film "Carne Trémula", as well as creating continuity bumpers for Telemadrid or designing tableware for the firm Santa Clara. He has collaborated on posters, album covers and in important publications such as ByN Dominical (ABC's Sunday magazine), El País, El Magazine del diario El Mundo, Marie Claire, ELLE, Qué leer, and Rolling Stone magazine, among others. In his more than twenty years of intense professional career, he has held more than ninety solo exhibitions, both in Spain and abroad, and as many group exhibitions. He is currently represented in the Reina Sofía Museum, the IVAM, the Sidney Besthoff Foundation in New Orleans, the Testimoni de La Caixa, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza and Kneip Collections in Luxembourg and the Montblanc Cultural Foundation, among other public and private collections in Spain and abroad. In addition to this national and international presence, it has also participated in fairs such as ARCO, ART COLOGNE, ART PARIS, ART BRUSSELS, ST-ART Strasbourg and KIAF (Korea International Art Fair), which are benchmarks for the latest artistic trends.