page_title: Marcelo Pombo
section_title: The Eighties
hierarchical_section_title: Marcelo Pombo / Life / The Eighties
caption_attribution_description: Español: El vitreaux de San Francisco Solano (1991), Marcelo Pombo
context_page_description: Marcelo Pombo is an Argentine artist. His work is in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Museo Castagnino + macro, the Blanton Museum of Art of The University of Texas at Austin, among others.
context_section_description: In 1982, at the outbreak of the Falkland's War during the last military dictatorship, Marcelo Pombo traveled to São Paulo, Brazil. While there, he produced a series of drawings that make reference to the gay night life in that city. In their style, those drawings bear the influence of Walt Disney, low-budget films, and underground comics by artists ranging from Robert Crumb to Nazario.
  He returned to Buenos Aires in 1983 and resumed his work at print shops. He soon began working as an art teacher at a special education school in Buenos Aires. In 1984, he got involved in the political group Grupo de Acción Gay (GAG), where he met cultural journalist, artist, and curator Jorge Gumier Maier and left-wing activist and university professor Carlos R. Luis—both of whom would prove decisive to his professional career and to his personal life.
  Starting in 1985, he began making works in which he would drip synthetic enamel paint on existing objects like LPs and, in the case of the emblematic work "Winco", a record player, and collages with photographs from magazine. His first solo show was held at the Espacio Joven of the Centro Cultural Recoleta in 1987. In 1989, he showed at the Galería de Artes Visuales at the Centro Cultural Rojas for the first time, exhibiting works like Michael y yo. The first in a series of group shows featuring Pombo, Pablo Suárez, and Miguel Harte would take place at that same venue some months later.
caption: Vitreaux de San Francisco Solano (1991)
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