Subliminal Initiatives is happy to give YOUTH ETERNAL, via Portuguese artist Diogo Machado, aka ADD FUEL. In his inaugural Los Angeles solo exhibition, ADD FUEL debuts a sequence of works and initiatives that in detail narrate a transition from early life to adulthood, introduced in the course of the artist’s various apply. The exhibition options an set up of his signature tile-based works, sculpture, a public mural at Subliminal Initiatives’ favourite native watering-hole Little Pleasure Cocktails in Echo Park, and a collaborative restricted version screenprint with gallery founder Shepard Fairey, to be launched together with the hole of the exhibition.
“ADD FUEL’s artwork purposes on a number of ranges actually and metaphorically,” Subliminal proprietor Shepard Fairey says. “His items grasp the aesthetics of conventional Portuguese tile paintings whilst including his personal playful persona illustrations subversively woven into the designs. Those two reputedly disparate kinds are so elegantly mixed in combination that finding the oddity inside the team spirit is each strange and blissful. The true and fake rips ADD FUEL contains into his artwork are greater than only a nod to paper, the average subject matter of recent boulevard artwork, they’re additionally a provocative little bit of visible dissonance since tiles don’t rip. Regardless of the incongruity of tiles and rips, ADD FUEL’s visually seductive compositions evoke a way of time handed and a tale in the back of every layer.”
Rooted in a post-modern reinterpretation of conventional Portuguese Azulejo ceramic tilework that dates again to the fifteenth century, ADD FUEL expertly fuses historic craft with recent subject matter, idea and design. YOUTH ETERNAL, expands on his signature taste with focal point on a sentimental weaving of the previous and the prevailing thru popular culture references from his early life inside of advanced conventional patterns, making a poetic rhythm of storytelling drawn from reminiscences of his Portuguese beginning and mawkish early life.
“In my paintings, I at all times counsel an journey, a adventure thru centered consideration within the composition, and the invention of nuance thru layers, patterns, allegories, and the unstoppable positive dynamism of the tale I found in every piece,” Upload Gasoline says. “It guides the viewer to find intricate main points, and a tale through the years, in every paintings I include in YOUTH ETERNAL.”
SPECIAL EDITION LAUNCH
Upload Gasoline and Subliminal Initiatives founder Shepard Fairey will unencumber a collaborative print together with the hole of YOUTH ETERNAL. Modular, 2022. 18 x 24 in. Screenprint on thick natural white paper. Signed via Upload Gasoline and Shepard Fairey. Num- bered version of 500. $115. To be had in-store on the opening reception Saturday, Nov 12, 7-10PM, and on-line Thursday, Nov 17, 10AM PDT on obeygiant.com.