Dr. Lakra
17 Oct - 22 Nov 2009
DR. LAKRA
17 October - 22 November 2009
For his third solo exhibition at the gallery, Dr. Lakra will be showing several large-scale drawings that revel in the dark underbelly of fantasy. In an orgiastic celebration of esoteric horror and erotica, images overlap, intertwine, and compete with each other in scenes of lust and suspense.
A couple kiss, submerged in dark water. The water flows, merging into the hair of a man who is transforming into an angry gorilla. From behind the ape, an alien tentacle reaches up, wrapping around the throat of a woman whose teeth are clenched in pleasure. His drawings are the heady and heaving product of a brain nurtured on 1950s sci-fi B-movies, underground Mexican comics, Manga artists such as Nagai Go, and vintage pornography.
Like the graffitied magazines, photographs, and objects for which Lakra is infamous, these drawings playfully and obsessively chart a devotional mining of subcultures. Creating a subconscious scene, where fantastical visions ferment and jostle to the point of almost editing each other out.
Dr. Lakra Born Mexico City, 1972, lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Dr. Lakra has produced large-scale wall drawings for his recent solo exhibition at kurimanzutto, Mexico (until 24 October), Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2009 and for Feral Kingdom, CCA Glasgow in 2007. Recent group shows include Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2008, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, The Alameda Nacional Center, San Antonio, 2008 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007, Goth: Reality of the Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, 2007, Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage And Drawing, Tate Modern, London, 2006.
In April 2010 he will have a solo exhibition at ICA Boston, accompanied by a new monographic publication.
Previous publications include: Los Dos Amigos, 2005, an artistâ€TMs book made in collaboration with Abraham Cruzvillegas. Health & Efficiency published by RM and kurimanzutto earlier this year. Both are available at the gallery.
17 October - 22 November 2009
For his third solo exhibition at the gallery, Dr. Lakra will be showing several large-scale drawings that revel in the dark underbelly of fantasy. In an orgiastic celebration of esoteric horror and erotica, images overlap, intertwine, and compete with each other in scenes of lust and suspense.
A couple kiss, submerged in dark water. The water flows, merging into the hair of a man who is transforming into an angry gorilla. From behind the ape, an alien tentacle reaches up, wrapping around the throat of a woman whose teeth are clenched in pleasure. His drawings are the heady and heaving product of a brain nurtured on 1950s sci-fi B-movies, underground Mexican comics, Manga artists such as Nagai Go, and vintage pornography.
Like the graffitied magazines, photographs, and objects for which Lakra is infamous, these drawings playfully and obsessively chart a devotional mining of subcultures. Creating a subconscious scene, where fantastical visions ferment and jostle to the point of almost editing each other out.
Dr. Lakra Born Mexico City, 1972, lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Dr. Lakra has produced large-scale wall drawings for his recent solo exhibition at kurimanzutto, Mexico (until 24 October), Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2009 and for Feral Kingdom, CCA Glasgow in 2007. Recent group shows include Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2008, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, The Alameda Nacional Center, San Antonio, 2008 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007, Goth: Reality of the Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, 2007, Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage And Drawing, Tate Modern, London, 2006.
In April 2010 he will have a solo exhibition at ICA Boston, accompanied by a new monographic publication.
Previous publications include: Los Dos Amigos, 2005, an artistâ€TMs book made in collaboration with Abraham Cruzvillegas. Health & Efficiency published by RM and kurimanzutto earlier this year. Both are available at the gallery.