ART
text by AARON ROSE
photography by MARLENE MARINO
shot at the artists’s studio in oaxaca
all artwork courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, mexico city / new york
lakra, son of famed oaxacan artist francisco toledo, celebrates the rich mexican tattoo tradition, elevating it onto the international art scene with fun, macabre collages, sculptures, and murals, and appropriating vintage images
The first time I heard of Dr. Lakra was in the mid-’90s through a friend, the Mexican artist Miguel Calderón. I was living in New York City, and Miguel was showing quite a bit there. Andrea Rosen, his gallerist at the time, introduced us, and we began to hang out together when he was in town. Miguel would tell me about all the wonderful things that had been going on in the art scene in Mexico, and one of the most intriguing people he mentioned was this mysterious…