Los Lichis

In 1996, three visual artists, Manuel Mathar,[3] Gerardo Monsivais,[3] and José-Luis Rojas,[1] met one another at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and started playing any musical instrument that was around.

The band name, “Lichis”, is a Mexican slang reference of a skinny stray dog, who fleetingly visited them one rainy night in their apartment.

Their art is an act of freedom with a strong dose of bizarre humor, playing with the role of an author, not showing up as protagonists, and letting the work develop under external and unpredictable circumstances.

The relationship Los Lichis had with the former French-Mexican gallery BF 15, carried Monsiváis and Mathar to show their work at Paris's International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in 2000.

By the end of 2009, they returned to the original line-up, reincorporating Jose-Luis Rojas (1975 - 2017) and working on a compilation project on their own that concluded in the summer of 2013 with a double LP 12" Dog, compounding the first ten years of the group in 90 minutes.

Also in 2015, the U.S. based label Feeding Tube Records, owned by Coley, re-released 500 copies of “Dog” distributed worldwide by Forced Exposure.

“Twenty years and Los Lichis are there, they appear and disappear, but when they let out the sound trail from their instruments, they surely leave their mark.” Mexican music critic, David Cortés[1] states.