GUILLERMO CARRIÓN PRESENTS… "3D CITIES"

There are aberrant cities and stylish cities; metropolises influenced by neon lights and capitals, raised up and surrounded by marble. The urban geography of our time is lavished with skyscrapers, piping, billboards, drains, and crashes, which are superimposed as Herculean musculature between our breathing and our retinas. Guillermo Carrión knows this well. And he paints and sculpts it even better.

New York, Dublin, Barcelona, Washington, Delhi, Valencia, and Cambridge, are all some of the destinations which have stood up to the eyes of an unclassifiable and outstanding creator; classic, futuristic and post-graffiti; who has spent more than 15 years expressing, on gigantic walls and minuscule sheets, the urban profiles which have fluttered in front of his intrepid almond-shaped eyes.

This 10th of December, Montana Gallery Barcelona (C/ Comerç, 6) will inaugurate the penultimate expositive adventure of one of the most blinding contemporary artist in our country. Educated in the legendary Cooper Union in New York, a free but exclusive temple who’s doors only open to the most talented of geniuses, Carrión’s work has grown with the times, with the same poetry of Calvino’s invisible cities.

Tiny cars adrift, crooked walls crowned with antennas, exact casts of gigantic cities, and microscopic reproductions of disorder and melody, are all superimposed, like out-of-time lights, in one of the most original journeys in modern art. Unmissable.

Text: Héctor Castells.