Olvido amor, modelo. Mario Patino, fotografìa. Arte Gay, queer art. Mexico-3
Mario Patiño is a multidisciplinary artist born and living in Mexico. In order to create awareness of LGBTQ diversity, his photographic work focuses on gender transgression. Patiño pushes back against what he sees as the world of prejudice and oppression from the male chauvinist, heteronormative Mexican society toward this community.
“I began working with LGBT performance artists, as their body language is intense, mannered, and uniquely different from heterosexuals. They are also accustomed to dealing with nudity and transgression with an open mind.”
“How to speak of the periphery? Peripheral is all that gets out of control, that corrupts a system, that lives on the edge, that adheres to the margins, that puts in doubt, that causes questioning, that rebels, that revolutionizes, that rises, that organizes insurrections, it’s everything that doesn’t fit, that resists, that refuses to play the game by the rules, it’s the possibility of change, of something new.”
Absolutely amazing work, this. Exquisite, thought provoking, and poignant. You can see more at The Advocate, and at Contemporary Multidisciplinar Performance Art. More photos below the fold – there’s nothing graphic, but you might want to have a caution if you’re at work.
Olvido amor, modelo. Mario Patino, fotografìa. Arte Gay, queer art. Mexico-2
Miguinti Mandala, Butoh Performer. Mario Patiño, Fotografìa. México 01
“Cuerpos Insurrectos”. Mario Patiño, fotografìa. Arte Gay-queer, 4
Mario, behind the canvas or the camera, as a butterfly hunter, catches in his images what cannot be stated without help of the imaginary. He makes the image incarnate, beat and move. His repertory takes us to a journey through a surrealism lost in time, giving us a poetic alphabet ranging from cannibal virgins, poisoned trannies, altered altars, peacock queens and phosphorescent junkies, bucolic scenes full of glitter and lipstick, codices of indigenous and futuristic bodies which intercept each other in a visual odyssey that allows to dispute all the established, the boundaries between race and gender, extending the possibilities of beauty in contemporary drama, between the inspiration of the eternal and the digital post-edit.
Lukas Avendaño, modelo, Lothar Muller, modelo.
Very cool!!! Lovely stuff. I’d never heard of Mario before; +watchlist
I hadn’t either, I’m a fan now. His work, and that of the performance artists who are his models, absolutely stunning.
Wow, this work is beyond effective. Stunning imagery, and the colours…!
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I love how he’s playing with the Christian imagery in the first and last one. St. Sebastian ftw.
Giliell:
I went through everything at his blog, lots and lots of St. Sebastian, used to good effect.
Both beautiful and disturbing, though I’m at a loss with the saint references (had 9 years of religion at school, but it was Lutheran stuff, very little about saints).
It’s sort of reminiscent of Butoh.
(That’s a compliment)
Ice Swimmer:
St. Sebastian -- arrows to the chest. He was one of the more depicted saints, because arrows to the chest. Painters of the day really dug that.
Caine @9
I see.
Usually I find this style of visual art disturbing.
It’s too real and the images wake me out of deep sleep at 3AM.
but
I really, really like the Pietà.
He is also the unofficial patron saint of gay dudes
Thanks for sharing this post, and taking the time to comment. My photographic work, is very symbolic and conceptual. Even color is very intentional, as it is usually associated with ethnic cultures. Ethnic groups, as a minority, are also ‘victims’ of prejudice, oppresion, repression, supression and chauvinism.
From my own experience Latino catholic-hipocritical society and its leaders are the ones who validate, promote, and perpetuate this enormous prejudice and LGBTQ-phobia.
That is one of the reasons why i use a lot of ‘christian’ imagery, as to question, protest, transgrede and reclaim. An arrow can be a symbol for pain, loneliness, violence, bullying…even passion and desire in some scenes….
Mario! Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to talk about your work. It’s very powerful, I haven’t seen on piece that doesn’t speak volumes, and that I don’t like.
I love the colours, and the saturation, that reminds me of Ken Rockwell. I’m an artist, and everything is about colour for me. I’m also half Oglala Lakota, and yes, colours are associated with many ethnic cultures, and often a point of bias against people. I think you’re doing great work, as are all of the people who are modeling for you.