Lupe La Morte

"Mario Patiño is one of those who is constantly driven toward transgression, and yet is possessed of an anguished lucidity " ... Mario Patiño’s creative trajectory reveals an incisive talent and a rage that perseveres in the search for the most precise definition of chaos. "...I paint in the purity of self-imposed isolation within the fragile and transparent world of those of us who have nothing to lose...." "Mario Patiño perverts the paradigm of the woman-virgin and transforms it into that of the saint-whore hybrid that inhabits the male erotic fantasy " "Patiño subverts the machista order prevailing in Mexican society by developing feminine themes as monumental and vengeful icons. " "Kitsch is fundamental for Mario given his aim of reproducing and critiquing the traditional macho attitude and the world of conventions that surrounds women in Mexico" "The real world for Mario Patiño is one of pain; his pictorial world one of color. These are the fundamental issues he deals with, striving to comprehend it in its historical perspective." "In the paintings of Patiño, suffering is portrayed specifically in relation to the body, illness, physical violence, androgyny, and frustrated, stigmatized or mutilated sex" Suffering becomes the cultural sphere of the dispossessed. This is the sphere that often determines the psychology and the finonomía of an entire people. Mario Patiño has known the vertigo of liberty. His obsessive character, his very intimate commitment to the anguish of creation, and above all, with the anguish of life, is what makes him one of the strongest personalities among artists currently working in the state of Hidalgo.