Marcos López
Bio
Marcos López (Argentina, 1958) Documentalist, recognized photographer and plastic artist, reflects through his images the values and symbols that govern the popular life of Latin America with a mixture of homage and humor about the expressions of culture, from Patagonia to the bars on the northern border of Mexico.
Statement
From his work Pop Latino (Latin Pop) and his identity as a South American artist, López says: “I feel that Latin America belongs to me. I appropriate the immense America in a Bolivarian gesture. I am a transvestite, black, mestizo, Indian, native people, and grandson of European immigrants, all at the same time. I am a shaman. A Gypsy used car salesman in the great Buenos Aires. A Cuban Santero, and a table dancer from the darkest bar in Mexico City”.
Additional information
Artist's book/portfolio from the iconic Pop Latino series, of which the artist expresses: “I feel that Latin America belongs to me. I am a transvestite, black, mestizo, Indian, native people, and grandson of European immigrants at the same time... "
