Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design » Mexico http://beautifuldecay.com Beautiful/Decay | Artist Book Series + Daily Art & Design Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:35:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Ivan C. http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/28/ivan-c/ http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/28/ivan-c/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:53:52 +0000 Intern http://beautifuldecay.com/?p=22294 Read the Rest...]]> cgMeet Ivan C. – a visual artist from Mexico. Although he works commercially, his work is conceptul, believing art should now be “Cosa Virtuale,” with technology not leading the ideas, but setting free all the visual possibilities for the interpretation of reality. Ivan releases his imagery through multiple mixed-media processes involving digital photography, digital collage and experimental graphic manipulations.

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]]> http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/28/ivan-c/feed/ 0 Dr. Lakra http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/22/dr-lakra/ http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/22/dr-lakra/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:37:39 +0000 admin http://beautifuldecay.com/?p=22019 Read the Rest...]]> DL_PorPayasa Dr. Lakra is a Mexico-based  world renowned tattoo artist whose work has been seen on vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin-up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers.

He is having his first solo show at Boston’s ICA April 14 – September 16 2010.188877669_d24c1a5f0e-1 2358088320_8e5e4d259b_o Dr.Lakra_ss_7

]]> http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/04/22/dr-lakra/feed/ 2 James Pomerantz http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/06/24/james-pomerantz/ http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/06/24/james-pomerantz/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:49:58 +0000 Gladys http://beautifuldecay.com/?p=6282 Read the Rest...]]> picture-231

Agua Sagrada is the title of this series of photographs by Columbia-educated James Pomerantz. The photos were taken in Mexico at a cenote, which is a water-filled sinkhole, found mostly in the Yucatan, that the Mayans believed to be portals to another world. Today these cenotes are tourist destinations, though the otherworldly Mayan connotations are still plainly evident in their haunting, ethereal appearance.

More photos after the jump, but check out Pomerantz’s site for some other beautiful sets, mostly of poverty or tragedy-stricken places like Eastern Europe and the Congo.


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]]> http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/06/24/james-pomerantz/feed/ 1 One Million Ways Mexico Is A Better Artist Than All Of Us http://beautifuldecay.com/2008/12/09/one-million-ways-mexico-is-a-better-artist-than-all-of-us/ http://beautifuldecay.com/2008/12/09/one-million-ways-mexico-is-a-better-artist-than-all-of-us/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:11:03 +0000 Sasha http://beautifuldecay.com/blog/?p=297 Read the Rest...]]> 612_1228844014Jared Lindsay Clark makes an interesting observation on how everyday images from Mexico make for better works of art than most pieces one comes across in galleries.

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