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TEXTS BY MARCOS LÓPEZ / SEE TEXTS ABOUT HIS WORK
Crime and Punishment
December 31st, 2012, Buenos Aires

There is no concept. There is a manic compulsion to create images that express and / or mobilize emotions. Read more >>

Debut & farewell
February 3rd, 2013, Buenos Aires

What I personally like most is going to the Salvation Army. The one in Nueva Pomeya, in Saenz Avenue ... Read more >>

Just do it

I had just arrived in Buenos Aires from Madrid. I stayed a week in PhotoEspaña 2012, perhaps the leading photography festival -the largest, the one that has the most exhibitions, etc. etc. etc. ... Read more >>

The Impermeable Tablecloth
November 6th, 2012

... It is since last night I have not been able to sleep, anxious, sad, because I need to clear up an issue with Leonardo Favio. Read more >>

Death in Venice

I arrived in Venice at sunrise, totally dazed. Under the influence of a miracle pill for jet lag that was recommended by a gallery friend from Miami. Read more >>

The Zone
Buenos Aires, 2012

In the south, in the wild pampas where I live, there are still gauchos (argentine cowboys) ... Read more >>

Black and white
Buenos Aires, 2008

My aunt Delia, who was raised in the country, used to say that when she was twelve years old her parents sent her by train to a Catholic boarding school all by herself and they didn’t see her again until Christmas. Read more >>

Santa Fe
2007

There is a clear, forceful scene with sufficient symbolic force for it to be called the point of departure of my story. It would have taken place in around 1971 or 1972 ... Read more >>

A pact of silence
Buenos Aires, 2006

A shroud of silence covers the pact of silence. The shroud is a wrapping. Rubbery, elastic, like the polyester film ... Read more >>

The raftsman
Buenos Aires, 2005

“You’ve got to tough it out”, said my father on the phone a few days ago when I told him how Lena, my wife, was doing. She is from Cuba and happy to be in Buenos Aires ... Read more >>

Chacarera, a country dance

The violins in the Chacarera of Santiago del Estero always sound a little out of tune.
On purpose.
So the music will sound good in the mushy volume of the radios of truckdriver ... Read more >>

Pampas Milonga, a country song

Says don Atahualpa in one of his most celebrated stanzas:
"Because I don't grease the axles
they call me a quitter.
If I like to hear them play,
Why should I grease them?"

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Caribbean Texture
2000

"What I like about you... Is you" said the deep, solemn voice of a good looking highly-educated mulatto to a modest, thirtyish señorita, as they waited to be served lunch ... Read more >>

Introduction to the Caracas Manifesto
1998

There is a basic scene: in the big avenue, on a rainy grey day in midwinter, a boy shoves his way through legs of grownups to watch the parade go by ... Read more >>

The Caracas Manifiesto
1998

Argentina.
Homeland as a melting pot.
Those who were there already and those who arrived in boats.
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