181 - ÓSCAR MÉNDEZ LOBO (Madrid, 1963).

ÓSCAR MÉNDEZ LOBO (Madrid, 1963). "Composición", 2003. Mixed media on cardboard. Signed and dated in the upper right-hand corner. Measurements: 76 x 112 cm. Graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. An artist with an extensive and relevant career, he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, Mexico, Lima, Copenhagen, Oslo and throughout Spain. And group exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Copenhagen, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife, among many others. His latest group exhibitions have been in the Art Fairs Art-Miami, Art New York, Estampa 2007 and a travelling exhibition with Bancaixa in the IVAM produced by the Argenta Gallery in Valencia. In 2005 he inaugurates together with F. Bellver and J. Capa the Espacio Tribeca, where Francisco Calvo Serraller writes: "this trio of artists so accredited...artists of unquestionable refinement and very solid technique". In 2007 and 2008 he presented his work at Art Fair Shanghai and Art Now Miami with the Tribeca Gallery. With the same gallery he participated in Arco:Expanded Box 2008 and in Pulse Miami in December 2008. And with L'Esmar he participates in ArtJaén 2008. His works can be found in numerous museums, including the Museo Garachico (Tenerife), Museo Florencio de la Fuente (Cuenca), and among other collections those of El punto de las Artes, Zenith Media, Grupo Recoletos, Torres Colón, Fundación Konecta. Coca-Cola Foundation Collection. Juego de la Oca Collection, National Library. The last individual exhibitions in 2006 he presented his work in Arteinversión. In 2007 in Nuevoarte (Seville), obtaining the best reviews from Julia Sáez-Angulo and Javier Rubio, writing of him: "...his career continues its upward rhythm.... the artist in his creative plenitude...catches the light of the colours and sips it in perfect combinations. An enigma that only an artist like him deciphers and respects". In May 2008 at the Exhibition Hall of the Centro de Arte José Saramago, in Leganés, Madrid. Sponsored by Caja de Extremadura at the Caja de Extremadura Exhibition Hall in Cáceres in June 2009. In 2011 at the Sala de Exposiciones Barjola - Ayuntamiento de Las Rozas. In 2009 artistic director of the Contemporary Art Fair ArteHotel Madrid, organised by the Corporación Hispano Hotelera, also participating as an artist. In 2010 he participates in Elche in the International Tribute to the Centenary of Miguel Hernández, a collective travelling exhibition of Plastic and Literary Artists throughout Spain. In 2011 he took part in the engraving exhibition organised by the Centro Español de Arte Gráfico at The Nut Lab in Shanghai. 2011 International exhibition of the Artistic Movement founded by Adolfo Giuliani. "La Terza Triennale dell'Esasperatismo. Castel dell'Ovo. Naples. 2011 Exhibition Sala Barjola, Las Rozas. Madrid 2011. 2012 Exhibition Hall of the Centro de Arte José Saramago, in Leganés, Madrid. 2015 Exhibition at Atalante Gallery.