David Rodríguez Caballero

David Rodríguez Caballero is a sculptor born in Palencia, Spain in 1970, who has lived in New York since 2011. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and specializes in sculptures with clean lines. He uses materials such as aluminum, brass, and bronze in his works, and plays with light refractions on surfaces to create interesting optical effects. He also experiments with other plastic materials, such as vinyl, and has ventured into the field of jewelry. Rodríguez Caballero's work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and public institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Würth Museum in La Rioja, the Oteiza Foundation Museum, and other institutions in Europe and the United States. He has also participated in numerous art fairs such as the International Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, TEFAF Maastricht, Contemporary Istanbul, Art Basel Hong Kong, MACO Mexico, Art Río, ARCO and Estampa. He has won numerous awards throughout his career, such as the Bodegas Dinastía Vivanco International Engraving Prize (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, 2006), the Volksbank Paderborn Painting Prize (Paderborn, Germany, 1996) and others. Rodríguez Caballero's work is characterized by its minimalism and elegance, and he has been praised for his ability to create works that are simultaneously simple and complex. He works with metal and vinyl in dynamic abstract forms that play with the projections of light and shadow as a compositional part of the work. His works gradually reached monumental scale, first through painting, then through wall sculpture, and later through freestanding sculpture. By incorporating curved lines, he enriched the three-dimensionality of a creative universe based on folding, sometimes reminiscent of origami. He has been represented by the Marlborough Gallery since 2005, where he has held notable exhibitions such as "Poetic Abstractions" (2017, Madrid) and "Vinyls" (2016, New York).