Presenting Dr. Lakra

Once in a while we present you some artists that we find interesting. One of those is also Dr. Lakra. Some of you might already have heard about him before.
“Dr Lakra is a tattoo artist living and working near Mexico City. In his parallel activities here, however, Dr Lakra transfers his draughtsmanship onto the idealised figures in 50’s Mexican magazines. Pin-up girls, wrestlers, beauties and cuties are tattooed and ‘enhanced’ in ink with bats, demons, spiders and the faces of pouting vixens. Like pertinent graffiti, the relative innocence of another era is politicised and the images are infused with a relish for the diabolical. Beautification or social identification, the works are a carnival of the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused in a collage of ideologies.” (via Saatchi Gallery)

The images used by him are already artworks by themselves and his enhancements give them yet an even more special touch!
Check out a selection of his works after the jump.