To Go Outwards, Go Inwards

Luis is best known for his realistic paintings of beautiful subjects (his friends) set in somewhat surreal circumstances, painted on his signature highly-textured canvases that resemble degraded stucco. This recreation of the walls he remembers from his childhood in Mexico City gives his work a most unusual quality – melding the ancient past with present-day fashionable participants, and a question about what the future holds in the mysterious scenes he paints.