Splendid volume that shows the work of the Mexican artist Dr. Lakra, who superimposes a mystical, ancient or funerary symbolism - gang, bone and skull recordings, heads of Aztec warriors, cobwebs, serpents and demons - on old ads, Japanese engravings, dolls, molded skulls. It achieves an effect that resembles an altar of Day of the Dead cleverly placed in place of a kitchen table in the furniture section for the home of a department store in Mexico City. The uncivilized, unrefined and primitive human is always about repressing in some way, sometimes form-even criminal, says Dr. Lakra, who also works as a tattoo artist.
I think that, through these aspects, you can define culture in essence.
It contains one hundred twenty color images of Lakra’s work, as well as a contribution by the renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco 96 photographs