Bio
Eduardo Lara
Mexico City *1975
He studied Visual Arts at the Faculty of Art and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
His work includes works in graphics, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and objects. The theme of his work reflects on the duality and parallelism between life and death, beauty and ugliness, light and darkness, the logical and the absurd. His series of Doppelgänger paintings focuses on the theme of repetition (twins, doubles, alter ego, reflections, copying, repetition, opposite poles) The Blind Men series (painting, engraving, drawing and objects) has as its subject the blindness, in a literal and metaphorical sense, all this from the paradoxical perspective of one who has the privilege of sight.
He has participated in more than 60 collective exhibitions, in America and Europe and individually in Mexico, Czech Republic, Spain, Slovakia and Poland. His work is part of public and private collections.
In the year 2000 he received the first prize in the graphic contest A modern interpretation of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, this work is part of the collection of the Quixote Iconographic Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico; he has also received several honorable mentions in graphic contests around the world.
From 2000 to 2002 he founded and coordinated the group of young artists Código Negro, whose mission was the dissemination of the work of artists recently graduated from the Faculty of Arts in cultural spaces in Mexico City. Since 2018, together with the artist Víctor Ríos, he has coordinated the collective of artists and traveling exhibition project Sin Rumbo Fijo, whose purpose is the promotion and dissemination of the graphics of the participating artists who are joining the city project. in city and from country to country, in addition to generating links between artists and institutions related to or dedicated to printmaking. In 2021 he became a member of the Association of Czech Graphic Artists.
Since 2003 he has been based in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Professional Studies
Studied Visual Arts 2000 at the ENAP (National School of Plastic Arts), UNAM in Mexico City.
Solo Exhibitions
Graphic works, Alma Gráfica, VI Contemporary Printmaking Fair, Oviedo, Spain, 2022
Semana Profesional del Arte en Oviedo, Sala 1, Antigua Fábrica de Armas de la Vega, Oviedo, Spain, 2022
The Blind Men Series, White Gallery, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, Czech Republic
Danse Macabre, Galería La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona, Spain, March 2021
Warstwy i substraty, Galeria Bacalarte, Warsaw, Poland, 2020
Doppelgänger, Galerie Fotografic, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017
X-Times Artel Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 2015
Printmaking and Drawings Galéria VEBA, Košice, Slovakia, 2006
Printmaking and Drawings Galéria F7, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2006
Printmaking and Drawings Mistogalerie sklenena louka, Brno, Czech Republic, 2005.
Portraits Traveling Exhibition, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) May-November, Mexico City, 2002.
From Contemplation to Indifference, Marie-Louise Ferrari Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico, July 2001.
Print Works Eduardo Lara Álvarez Tostado. Gallery of the Escuela libre de diseño y arte Bauhaus. Puebla, Mexico, February 2000
Awards and Acknowledgements:
First Prize in the VIII National Printmaking Contest on a modern interpretation of “El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, Guanajuato, Mexico. 2000
Nomination Award in the VIII International Biennale of Small Graphic Form and Ex-Libris, in Ostrów, Wielkopolski, Poland. 1999
Honorable Mention in the VII National Printmaking Contest on a modern interpretation of “El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”, Guanajuato, Mexico. 1998
Honorable Mention in the VI National Print Contest “Jose Guadalupe Posada”, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1998
Group Exhibitions
Zámek na zámku, Inspirace románem Franze Kafky Zámek ve výtvarném umění, Kurátor: Michal Lazorčík, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová, 25 may - 18 august 2024, Plzeň, Czech Republic
EXPERIMENT / Boudníkova klika, Pragovka, White Room Gallery, Curator: Adam Hnojil 17.11 - 14.12.2023
Grafika Roku 2022, XXVI Vladimír Boudník Prize, Czech Gallery of Modern Art, Prague, Czech Republic, 6. 4 - 5. 5. 2023
Mexican Printmaking, 5a International Printmaking Biennial internacional Čačak 2022, National Museum of Čačak, Serbia 2022
Memento Mori / International Contemporary Printmaking Project
Galerie HYB4, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, Czech Republic 2021
Galería Chez Xefo, Barcelona Spain 2021
Galería de La Trampa Gráfica, Mexico City, Mexico 2021
Gallery of contemporary art of the National Museum of Smederevska Palanka, Serbia 2022
Exhibition Hal of the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of the Basque Country ,Bilbao, Spain 2022
Fine Arts Gallery, City Cultural Center, Vrbas, Serbia 2022
Gallery of the National University Vranje, Serbia 2022
National Museum of Cacak, Serbia 2022
Instituto Cervantes, Belgrado, Serbia
Biblioteca Nacional de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City
Sin Rumbo Fijo / Ensayos de Gráfica Contemporánea
Galerie HYB4, Kampus Hybernska, Prague, Czech Republic 2019
Galeria Pracowni NR6, Warsaw, Poland 2019
Palacio Horcasitas, Vizcaya, Balmaseda, Spain 2019
Fundación CIEC, Betanzos, La Coruña, España 2021
Grafika Roku 2021 a XXVII. Cena Vladimíra Boudníka, Galería Karolinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2021
International Symposium of Sculpture, Ekogalerie Osrblie, Slovakia 2008
Slovak Contemporary Art. (Invited Artist) Gallerie Le Halle, Paris, France, 2006
VIII Triennial of Sculpture and Drawing (Invited Artist) Galerie Jozef Kollár, Banská Stavnica, Slovakia, 2006 - 2007
Mezinárodní sochařské sympozium Ekogalerie Osrblie, Slovakia 2006
Nová mexická grafika, Galerie Evropského domu, Plzeň. República Checa, 2002
Nueva Gráfica Mexicana, Museo de Arte Etnográfico de Olomouc. Czech Republic 2002
Tres no-clones, El FARO, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002
Código Negro, Grabadores Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002.
Código Negro Centro Cultural San Ángel, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002.
Disonancias Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002
Jóvenes tendencias de la plástica mexicana Galería de la Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico, 2001
Muestra de Artes Visuales, selección de obra de la ENAP Galería 2 y 3, y pasillo continuo de fotografía. Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (hoy Facultad de Artes y Diseño) UNAM, 2001
Arte Sacro en el Tercer Milenio Parroquia de San Bernardino de Siena. Mexico City, Mexico, 2001
IX Bienal Nacional de Dibujo y Estampa Diego Rivera Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, México, 2001
Configuraciones Casa Tlaxcala, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000
VIII Concurso nacional de estampa sobre una interpretación moderna del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Museo iconográfico del Quijote, Guanajuato, México, 2000
VIII Bienal internacional de mini estampa y Ex-libris en Ostrów, Wielkopolski Poland, 1999
Premio a la Joven Estampa 1999 Galería Haydeé Santamaría, La Habana, Cuba, 1999
Ascensor al Paraíso Instalación permanente, Casa de las Américas, La Habana. Cuba, 1999
Muestra gráfica del taller “José Guadalupe Posada Foro Quetzalcóatl, casa de cultura de la Delegación Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico, 1999
Arte hacia la Tierra” Propuesta utópicas y fantásticas casa de la cultura de Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1999
Un mundo nuevo” propuestas dibujísticas de los jóvenes colegas de la ENAP Galerías 2 y 3 de la ENAP, Mexico City, Mexico,
II Bienal de pintura y grabado Alfredo Zalce Museo de arte contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Michoacán, México, 1999
Concurso Nacional de grabado “Una visión moderna del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha”Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico, 1998
Exposición del taller José Guadalupe Posada dentro del VI festival de las artes gráficas, ENEP Acatlán, Estado de México, México, 1998
VI Concurso de grabado José Guadalupe Posada, Museo “José Guadalupe Posada”, Aguascalientes, México, 1998
Collaborations
Curator and Coordinator o Sin Rumbo Fijo (International Cultural Management)
Member of Código Negro Group
Collections
Galerie Klatovy Klenová, Klatovy, Czech Republic
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
Muzeum Miasta Ostrowa Wielkopolskiego. Wielkopolski, Poland
Museo Iconográfico del Quijote. Guanajuato, México
Galería Marie-Louise Ferrari. Xalapa, México
Casa de las Américas. La Habana, Cuba.
Museo Jonas Nekrasius. Šiauliai, Lituania.
Ekogalerie Osrblie, Slovakia.