By the late ‘80s Marcelo Pomo (Buenos Aires, 1959) begun exhibiting small works which were identified with the gay and underground culture of the time. From the start, he was part of the group of artists that exhibited their works in Centro Cultural Rojas, a place whose aesthetic production was fundamentally gravitational in the Argentine art of the ‘90s.
Pombo’s work from this period was characterized by the use of materials and processes linked to decoration and melancholic handcrafts. Starting in 1999, he almost exclusively focused on creating synthetic enamel paintings on panels in which he blended different styles—surrealist and visionary landscapes, genre scenes, geometrical art and abstract expressionism.
Through an obsessive and meticulous technique, he created a hypnotic and besetting effect in his oeuvre. Since 2008, his work has focussed on the past of Argentine and Latin American art – both which remained on the margins of the modern narrative as well as the eccentric and perverse interpretations of the avant-garde canon.