Pepe López Reus (b. 1966, Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist who lives and works between Paris and Caracas. His work is based on a vast trajectory of diverse transmutation. He explores the map of the social spectrum through the translation of aesthetic codes, while developing his perception and concepts in a prolific variety of mediums such as: textiles, objects, collages, paintings, installations, photography, video and performances.

As part of López research as an artist, he has gained wide experience curating major multidisciplinary and collective art projects at The Puffin Foundation in New York City and Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, among other prestigious institutions. He has also exhibited his work at the New York Museum of Arts and Design, Mercosur Art Biennial in Brasil, La Havana Biennial; Ruya foundation and The Gasworks in London; Museo Amparo in Mexico; Museo Rosario in Argentina, among others. He has been working with creative communities as in Todasana village where the artist develops a project of artistic exchange with drum makers and musicians since 2012.

López work is deeply rooted in the foundations of abstraction, but his motivation, process and meanings question crucial aspects of contemporary life such as aesthetics, identity, simulation, consumerism and communication, among others, which allows the artist to connect: the individual with the community, the arts with the politics and the pain with the beauty. In Guapisimas series, the artist maps global interactions. Pepe López beckons his audience to confront the reality of global consumerism through cultural codes of society. By painting and weaving fashion industry logos and manga characters on traditional indigenous baskets, a cartography of consumerism, a cultural exchange or syncretism which occurs in the outskirts of Puerto Ayacucho in the borderline of Amazon rain forest, transforming these simple objects into allegorical representations of their own beauty.

The artist has a very particular way of inventing his methods of communication, developing several series of works at the same time. He walks through cities with a supermarket cart, recording his path with a video-camera while collecting trash, that later, in his studio, he classifies to use for his urban sculptures and costume designs.