This is my first posting and I just want to endorse a new book by RM editores, a publisher company in Mexico that shows the work of Dr. Lakra. (http://www.editorialrm.com/2010/product.php?id_product=173)
Some of you may be familiar with his work. But for those of you who aren't I'm transcribing his wikipedia entry:
Dr Lakra (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Dr Lakra (Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez, born 1972, Mexico) is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing images and other found objects - for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines - with macabre or tattoo-style designs.[1]
He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including Stolen Bike at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Los Dos Amigos at MACO in Mexico, Pin Up at Tate Modern and Pierced Hearts and True Love at The Drawing Center in New York.
He is the son of the graphic artist Francisco Toledo.[2]
In 2007, he co-produced the book 'Los Dos Amigos' with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. In 2008 he participated in the "Goth: Reality of the Departed World" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, curated by Eriko Kimura.
His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[3] the Hammer Museum[4] and the Walker Art Center.[5]
Dr Lakra is represented by kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Kate MacGarry, London.
This is the book information from AMAZON:
Dr. Lakra [Hardcover]
Gabriel Orozco (Author), Dr. Lakra (Author)
Product Description
A refined woman gazes elegantly from the cover of a mid-twentieth-century Mexican magazine--its title, Blanca Sol, lays bare the publication's Eurocentric character--but the cover girl's loveliness is compromised by the penciled-in skull that replaces the right side of her face. In another image, a sleek gentleman who might otherwise be debonair becomes fearsome and fierce with the addition of a pattern of contoured lines, like Aztec facial tattoos, over his entire face. This is the work of Mexican artist Dr. Lakra, who superimposes mystical, ancient or funerary symbolism--gang tattoos, bones and skulls, Aztec warrior heads, spider webs, serpents and demons--onto vintage advertisements, girlie pinups, Japanese prints, baby dolls, cast skulls and the like, attaining an effect that resembles a Dia de los Muertos altar slyly erected in place of a kitchen table in the home furnishings section of a Mexico City department store. "In one way or another, the noncivilized human, the nonrefined, the primitive, is always being repressed, in a way that's almost criminal," Dr. Lakra, who also works as a tattoo artist, has said. "I think that through these themes you can define the essence of culture." This lavishly illustrated volume contains 120 color images of Lakra's work, plus a contribution from renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco.
Born Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez in 1972, Dr Lakra is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Lakra has shown his work internationally, at Tate Modern in London, The Drawing Center and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and elsewhere.
Product Details
Hardcover: 116 pages
Publisher: RM (December 31, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8492480866
ISBN-13: 978-8492480869
Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #853,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Some of you may be familiar with his work. But for those of you who aren't I'm transcribing his wikipedia entry:
Dr Lakra (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Dr Lakra (Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez, born 1972, Mexico) is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing images and other found objects - for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines - with macabre or tattoo-style designs.[1]
He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including Stolen Bike at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Los Dos Amigos at MACO in Mexico, Pin Up at Tate Modern and Pierced Hearts and True Love at The Drawing Center in New York.
He is the son of the graphic artist Francisco Toledo.[2]
In 2007, he co-produced the book 'Los Dos Amigos' with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. In 2008 he participated in the "Goth: Reality of the Departed World" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, curated by Eriko Kimura.
His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[3] the Hammer Museum[4] and the Walker Art Center.[5]
Dr Lakra is represented by kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Kate MacGarry, London.
This is the book information from AMAZON:
Dr. Lakra [Hardcover]
Gabriel Orozco (Author), Dr. Lakra (Author)
Product Description
A refined woman gazes elegantly from the cover of a mid-twentieth-century Mexican magazine--its title, Blanca Sol, lays bare the publication's Eurocentric character--but the cover girl's loveliness is compromised by the penciled-in skull that replaces the right side of her face. In another image, a sleek gentleman who might otherwise be debonair becomes fearsome and fierce with the addition of a pattern of contoured lines, like Aztec facial tattoos, over his entire face. This is the work of Mexican artist Dr. Lakra, who superimposes mystical, ancient or funerary symbolism--gang tattoos, bones and skulls, Aztec warrior heads, spider webs, serpents and demons--onto vintage advertisements, girlie pinups, Japanese prints, baby dolls, cast skulls and the like, attaining an effect that resembles a Dia de los Muertos altar slyly erected in place of a kitchen table in the home furnishings section of a Mexico City department store. "In one way or another, the noncivilized human, the nonrefined, the primitive, is always being repressed, in a way that's almost criminal," Dr. Lakra, who also works as a tattoo artist, has said. "I think that through these themes you can define the essence of culture." This lavishly illustrated volume contains 120 color images of Lakra's work, plus a contribution from renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco.
Born Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez in 1972, Dr Lakra is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Lakra has shown his work internationally, at Tate Modern in London, The Drawing Center and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and elsewhere.
Product Details
Hardcover: 116 pages
Publisher: RM (December 31, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8492480866
ISBN-13: 978-8492480869
Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #853,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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crysta:
Me encanta la del bebito tatuado jajajjajajaj que gracioso. Muchas gracias por tus comentarios y tu apoyo en mi set. Se agradece cantidad 
zhezz:
HOla!!! Gracias por el add 