Marcos Castro

Lives and works in Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Artist statement

Marcos Castro's practice is strongly marked by a style that comes from the graphic and muralist tradition of his country, in which the influences of neo-expressionism and neo-mexicanism also stand out in his style, as well as a gothic or punk contemporary aesthetic. Within his practice, the artist has developed a personal symbolic language articulated around several constants, such as an animalistic imaginary also composed of hybrid beings, and above all a constant re-reading of the mexican founding myths. By deconstructing patriotic symbols or reinterpreting diverse historical events from pre-hispanic history to the 1968 movement, Marcos Castro manages to convey a personal vision of his contemporaneity, of his own historical and cultural moment, and at the same time he incites the viewer to question the official historical and nationalist discourses. Marcos Castro's work reveals a fragmented and incomplete mexican identity, from which he takes up a multitude of symbolic elements and aesthetic codes from which he constructs a new narrative, a kind of personal mythology in which all mexicans recognizes by sharing the same context. The artist positions himself as a witness of his time and even as the bearer of the revolutionary torch, that of a revolution of thought that forces us to question the established order and the most deeply rooted myths. As an artist, Marcos Castro also co-direct, since 2010, a space in Mexico City called Obrera Centro, which emerged with the aim...

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