American photographer David LaChapelle returns to the city of Guadalajara with an exhibition of his work, announces the newspaper Mural a few days ago. Famous for its striking images in which it makes use of religious iconography, literary histories or for transforming celebrities into true icons of pop culture, his portraits have aroused great admiration within the world of fashion and art - he is considered among The 10 best photographers in history - so get ready to enjoy the work of LaChapelle - who retired from fashion to focus on their art projects - from next March 25.

A disciple of Warhol, this will be the second time the photographer - who has also directed music videos such as Christina Aguilera's infamous "Dirty" - has an exhibit in Guadalajara - in 2009 with great success he presented "Delirios de Razón" at the Museo de las Artes de Guadalajara. The first occasion he presented a retrospective of his career in 64 large format works, the new exhibition will have 50 images of which 12 will be unpublished.

The social messages, a fantastic realism, phosphorescent hues, religious passages, in synthesis, photographs that tell stories, are those that distinguish the American artist David LaChapelle, who offered a tour of his exhibition "Lost & Found", previous To the official opening.

Attendees walked the halls of the Instituto Cultural Cabañas observing the medium and large format photographic works on the side of its creator, who from the beginning emphasized that his work is purely analogous; Including the world premiere of the "New World" series, 12 pieces made over the last 10 years on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

In the last room of the tour, the viewer enters a dark room, painted totally black, where on one of the walls is the large mural "Make Love No Wall". It shows a naked young man on his back, to the surprise of the public, the model was accompanying the American artist, who encouraged him to position himself in the same position to be photographed by the visitors.

The talk of David Lachapelle was an unveiling of his life and how he works to make his pieces that lasted about 90 minutes.

David LaChapelle is visiting Guadalajara to present his exhibition Lost + Found. As part of the activities of this exhibition the artist met with about 6,500 young people in the Telmex Auditorium in the morning and held a press conference.

In the talk he spoke about his career, he shared the process of creating some of the works that he has done in the last ten years and that can be appreciated at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas (ICC) starting Thursday. He also answered questions from some of the assistants who were allowed to take the stage.

In the previous press conference, the artist announced that he would tell the young people "the words he would have wanted to hear when he was young", so it was inevitable that he would not mention the most recent commercial that he directed for the Diesel brand and Has by slogan Make love not walls, same that projected.

In this respect the artist stressed that it is very gratifying to carry out commercial projects that "go with your feelings"

Gas stations with their already classic self-service shops submerged in a tropical night, glistening between ferns and leafy trees, or a terminal patient lying in a bed connected through several probes to tree branches, someone close to an addict Looking lost, sitting on his bed smoking a cigar and with dozens of packs of drugs at his feet on top of a hill that allows to see a jungle landscape that extends behind him ... Androgynous beings that expire an aura in Blue occasions, another intense rose, still life with birthday balloons and a particular interpretation of The Last Supper which, unlike the multiple versions that have had that theme throughout the history of art, this one by David LaChapelle, is composed Of heads of the personages on cartones, that appear next to hands and arms of props, each personage in a painting. That is what visitors to the Lost + Found show that was inaugurated last night at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas (ICC) found, as well as a great vinyl that summarizes the commercial recently directed by the American artist for the brand of Clothes Diesel that counts on the slogan Make love not walls.

In the work of LaChapelle, the titles merge in a particular way with the visual proposal so that it manages to detonate a myriad of ideas: Once in paradise, Paradise Transfusion, Shell Gas Station, Jesus and Buddha under a tree and Gaia, are Some examples.

For 10 years, the American photographer David LaChapelle has worked on a series of very personal images.

He left aside his work in fashion and advertising to get into the creation of a new world, with evocations to paradise with the series "Lost & Found", which will present from Thursday at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas.

Before showing his exhibition, the photographer, who has worked for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, was received by the Mayor of Guadalajara, Enrique Alfaro and later met this morning with about six thousand students in the Telmex Auditorium.

"I want to welcome a great artist of international stature, David welcomed to Guadalajara, for us it is very relevant your presence as part of the agenda that has this city towards the road to consolidate as the cultural capital of Latin America," said Alfaro .

The author, who has photographed famous characters such as Andy Warhol and Madonna, stressed that he decided to return to his roots with the series of "Lost & Found", which has not been shown previously.

"Life is a journey, a journey with many chapters, now I'm going back to my origins, working in galleries and museums, I did a lot of work for magazines to keep me going, but now I'm returning to what I like," said the creator.

More than 10 years ago, David LaChapelle moved to Hawaii, moving away from the hectic celebrity life he led in California. His surroundings now became nature, jungle; In a somewhat isolated place.

The change of environment inspired him to work several photographic series away from advertising and fashion, areas in which he became famous. While using the same technique, he is no longer selling anything.

"Now I have complete freedom to do what I want," he says in an interview from London.

LaChapelle will premiere this March 30 at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas the series in which he has worked in the last decade, which have not been shown to the public.

The photographer has difficulty explaining what the new compositions are about. It speaks of paradise, of nature, of man mixed with it. He says he is not good with words because he is a visual person. In addition, he prefers the viewer to give him his own interpretation.

"What I did on the commercial level was just the warm-up phase to get to this," adds LaChapelle.

The series New World and Lost & Found - this last one is also a book that will be released this year - wink with the religious passages, including Christ.