Marcelo Pombo

From 2008, his work focuses on the Argentine and Latin American art tradition, withdrawn in the margins of the modern narrative and on eccentric and deviant translations of the avant-garde canon.

At the initiative of his mother, he attended the San Isidro National School where he met people who were an enriching and stimulating influence during his adolescence.

In 1978, upon finishing high school, he began working as a gofer in an advertising agency, then he entered as an apprentice in a printing house and eventually became a main assistant of offset machine, remaining in this trade for the following years.

In their style, those drawings bear the influence of Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, and underground comics by artists ranging from Robert Crumb to Nazario.

Back in Buenos Aires, in 1983, he resumed his work in the printing houses and at the same time, he began his studies at the Profesorado Nacional de Educación Especial [National Special Education Teacher Training].

[2] In 1991 and 1992 he made the San Francisco Solano Trilogy, alluding to the Buenos Aires town where the special school where he works as a teacher is located.

In 2012, he created the Museo Argentino de Arte Regional (MAAR), a virtual museum of images found on the Web and, sometimes, digitally intervened.

Ojitos y chapitas de cerveza (1986), Marcelo Pombo
Cover of the magazine "Sodoma 2", fall season 1985, GAG (Grupo de Acción Gay).
Vitreaux de San Francisco Solano (1991), Marcelo Pombo
La Navidad de San Francisco Solano (1991), Marcelo Pombo
Marcelo Pombo, 1995. Photo: Gian Paolo Minelli.
Otro mar (2010), Marcelo Pombo
Noche estrellada con casas en las montañas (2012), Marcelo Pombo