Dr. Lakra

Dr. Lakra... Las Armoniosas Líneas (2003, Paint on vintage magazine page). From the exhibition Girls on Film at Zwirner & Worth Gallery last year. Also... Selected Works by Dr. Lakra at the Saatchi Gallery and works by Dr. Lakra exhibited in September and November, 2003 and June and July, 2006 at Kate MacGarry Gallery in London. "...Dr. Lakra is a tattoo artist living and working near Mexico City. In his parallel activities here, however, Dr Lakra transfers his draughtsmanship onto the idealised figures in 50’s Mexican magazines. Pin-up girls, wrestlers, beauties and cuties are tattooed and 'enhanced' in ink with bats, demons, spiders and the faces of pouting vixens. Like pertinent graffiti, the relative innocence of another era is politicised and the images are infused with a relish for the diabolical. Beautification or social identification, the works are a carnival of the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused in a collage of ideologies."