Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo

Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo is an art gallery founded in Barcelona in 2009. Its mission is to launch and consolidate the careers of emerging and mid-career artists who have a unique contemporary art approach, in order to deliver this value globally and consolidate it in the European and international art market.

Located in the gallery area of Barcelona, Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo organizes between 8 and 10 exhibitions a year, some of which are curated by expert curators, and participates in several international fairs.

Represented artists:

Ethel Coppieters, Dirk Salz, Clara Adolphs, Tom Cullberg, Attila Kertész, Stefan Peters, Gerard Castellví, Juan De la Rica, Léo Dorfner, Kepa Garraza, BEATE HÖING, Malgosia Jankowska, Mario Dilitz, Daniel Agdag, Santiago Talavera, Concha Martínez Barreto, Jo Hummel, Jacinto Moros, Cesc Abad, Patrik Grijalvo, Francisco Suárez

The Horses series traces the history of equestrian portraiture through modified versions of some of the genre’s most iconic works, similar in technique and scale to the originals save for one substantial change: the removal of the rider. This absence transforms each piece into a reflection on the representation of power and its visual codes. 

Horses examines how power achieved through military supremacy has been visually legitimised over the centuries, and how that symbolic language, despite now seeming anachronistic, remains relevant today.