The Aston Martin Residences Artwork Gallery welcomes summary artist Louis Carreon, as the most recent featured expertise for its Digital Artwork Gallery exhibition collection.
Californian-born Carreon follows within the footsteps of Julian Lennon, Aaron Schwartz, Fabio Mesa, Robi Walters, Michele Utley Voigt and Rafael Delceggio, all of whom have displayed their distinctive paintings within the Aston Martin Residences Digital Artwork Gallery. Carreon’s unique exhibition, entitled “An Addicts Halo,” might be featured for 2 months as a three-dimensional immersive expertise, replicating the residence’s bodily artwork gallery being developed on the 52nd ground, and may now be considered through a virtualtour right here
Carreon’s exhibit reveals a group of works that replicate on his personal life experiences, portrayed by his signature oil, charcoal, aerosol and acrylic on linen medium. Within the fusion of African and South American tribal and people motifs, with the pictorial house of Previous Masters and the scarified mark-making of punk-inflected modernism, Carreon has discovered a voice authentically his personal, and uniquely suited to inform his multi-faceted journey of all-time highs, shadowy lows, and momentum in direction of reinvention.
“I’m a vandal at coronary heart,” says Carreon, who began out as a tagger. “I’m a 40-year-old businessman – however as an artist I’m nonetheless a child.” Carreon may be very a lot engaged within the query of his identification, his place in society and tradition, and how you can discover peace on this world. If this appears to be like like artwork that saved somebody’s life, it’s as a result of it has. His. Via two years in jail and ten years of sobriety, Carreon realized just a few issues about consciousness, motivation, and intimacy. For him, the true energy of artwork doesn’t lie fully in how good you might be at any given second; you possibly can all the time get higher. He typically asks the query Who’re you portray for? “At the least one a part of that reply higher be for your self otherwise you’re in bother,” says Carreon. “I inform my followers on Instagram, the children particularly, ‘I paint for me. It’s best to paint for your self.’”
Carreon can be happy to current “Paintitecture Fantasy,” an unique interpretation for the Aston Martin Residences’ everlasting assortment – impressed by the residences’ sail-shaped structure and tropical atmosphere — portraying the 66-storey tower standing tall underneath the blazing solar of South Florida.
Drawing from his colourful previous and background in graffiti, rapping, skateboarding and browsing, Californian-born Louis Carreon is a visionary modern artist identified for his enigmatic, summary photographs impressed by non secular iconography. Utilizing artwork to replicate on the adversities of his previous, his work fuses modern concepts with basic ideas, paying homage to artwork historical past. Along with model collaborations with UBS, Artwork Basel, Denison Yachts, Soho Home, Viper Room and the Stanley Cup, Carreon has exhibited his artworks internationally, together with in Mexico Metropolis, Madrid and New York Metropolis. Notably, Louis has been commissioned by Landmark Aviation to color its narrative ISOT (Worldwide Symbols of Journey) onto a 12-seater non-public jet, in addition to by Dimension Superyachts to color ISOT on a mega yacht for consecutive years throughout Artwork Basel. At the moment, Louis is engaged on his Ryzantine narratives, updating non secular and non secular iconography for the fashionable world.
Louis Carreon’’s An Addicts Halo exhibit can now be considered on the Aston Martin Residences immersive 3D digital gallery, at https://astonmartinresidences.github.io/virtualtour/.