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About the Artist: JuanCarlos rLora is a conceptual abstract artist whose colorful artworks often take the preservation of the natural environment as their subject. In 2015, the artist began a series of painted skies filled with realist and abstract elements that fill the horizons above urban city streets and quaint old quarters alike. rLora calls this stylistic approach, which combines elements of the real world with the imaginary, “Abstract Photo Reality.” The images are statements on pollution and the darkened horizons of our future if environmental policies are not enacted. 

Why We Like It: rLora creates series often over the course of many years, with each image taking part in a larger narrative within the artist’s imagination. In the case of this series, the narrative tells the story of a scientist who releases an agent onto the wind that will stain different pollutants with different colors, forcing people to confront the environmental issues at hand and seek collective change. It’s the kind of sci-fi story that we wouldn’t mind happening in real life. 

What the Gallery Says: “These images tie into the artist’s iconic ‘Flor del Sol,’ in which the protagonist Flor experiences, or rather sees, the world’s pollution in colors, finally convincing the creator, once she dies, to send her seed to be reborn on the surface of the sun, as a protest to humanity’s destruction, to then patiently await for man to become a benevolent being, so that she can be reborn on Earth and radiate once again the most important energy in existence—love.”

JuanCarlos rLora
View from the Penthouse
ArtToSaveLives Contemporary
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JuanCarlos rLora, View from the Penthouse. Courtesy of ArtToSaveLives Contemporary.

JuanCarlos rLora
Old City Love (Climbing a Tree)
ArtToSaveLives Contemporary
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JuanCarlos rLora, Old City Love (Climbing a Tree). Courtesy of ArtToSaveLives Contemporary.

JuanCarlos rLora
Autumn Ghost Town
ArtToSaveLives Contemporary
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JuanCarlos rLora, Autumn Ghost Town. Courtesy of ArtToSaveLives Contemporary.

JuanCarlos rLora
Memory Dissected
ArtToSaveLives Contemporary
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JuanCarlos rLora, Memory Dissected. Courtesy of ArtToSaveLives Contemporary.

JuanCarlos rLora
Noel
ArtToSaveLives Contemporary
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JuanCarlos rLora, Noel. Courtesy of ArtToSaveLives Contemporary.