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Mario López
Mario López
Mario Abidail López López was born on August 17, 1991, on Finca Oná, El Quetzal, San Marcos, Guatemala. My childhood among the coffee plantations has been one of the greatest gifts life has given me—growing up with dawns announced by the song of the mockingbird and watching the brilliant sunset dance to the tune of the clarinero. I began working on the coffee farm as a child. The morning dew would cling to my pants and rubber boots as I followed the foreman’s voice, carrying my machete, hoe, and a bag holding the tortillas my mother had made for me. My paths were dirt trails through brush and ants. In winter, they turned into muddy swamps, and those trails became my first canvases, where I would draw with my machete, tracing my first creations with the branches of chalum. In the church I attended, a drawing contest was held, and I won at only six years old. My prize was Q 2.00 (two quetzales) and half a dozen bananas. I never studied art formally; however, I don’t consider myself a self-taught artist, as my teachers from a young age were nature and the experiences I described in the second paragraph of this writing.
Mario López Arts
See all Mario López artsMy work balances positive and negative days, joy and sadness, grays and colors. In my pieces, I often depict this combination, representing the ebb and flow of daily life for every human being. The grays in the skin symbolize negative days—problems, sorrows, and failures—those days and nights when a person faces themselves in the mirror, feeling the urge to abandon their goals and dreams. Yet, in that moment, an inner voice embraces them, shakes off their fears, whispering to their ear, to their soul, something that stirs their bones and thoughts. It says: everything will be okay; the dawn, with its pink and violet tones, will herald a new day, a fresh start, where one can see the morning dew bathing the flowers in the fields, the mockingbird singing a hymn of joy to life. Paths kissed by the genuine light of the sun, the corn embraced by brown, yellow, and blush. The circle in my work represents each person’s space; as inhabitants of this planet, we must support one another, respecting our opinions and decisions because we do not know the burden our neighbor carries. Empathy lightens our collective weight in this life. - Mario López
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