Riotous presents a series of works by Argentine artist Marcos López, produced since the end of theeighties on. López’s work is riotous in more than one dimension: it’s disruptive in his use of photography,closer to performance art or theater than to a registry, a document. His urban landscapes, for example, areperfect mise-en-scènes, where precarity and the popular become landscape, as in the …
Riotous presents a series of works by Argentine artist Marcos López, produced since the end of theeighties on. López’s work is riotous in more than one dimension: it’s disruptive in his use of photography,closer to performance art or theater than to a registry, a document. His urban landscapes, for example, areperfect mise-en-scènes, where precarity and the popular become landscape, as in the close-ups at localbars or, more recently, in the Plaza de Mayo turned into the background of a cleansing ritual, stressing thehuman flag with a mask and the Pyramid of Mayo, symbol of the Revolution. …
