EKO (H.S. DE LA GARZA BATORSKI) (Mexican) Silkscre

EKO (H.S. de la Garza Batorski) (Mexican, b.1958). "Caida Alada (Winged Fall)". Silkscreen. 1992. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin. Arches paper. Full margins. Very fine inpression. 27 5/16 x 39 in. (694 x 991 mm). Sheet Size: 29 1/2 x 43 3/16 in. (749 x 1097 mm). Fine condition. A very large and detailed print. As the Nobel laureate poet Octavio Paz has stated, "EKO's work is much more than tearing and biting; those monsters are not dreams - they are us." Noam Chomsky, the celebrated linguist and philosopher, has defined his art as "suitably ominous." Avelina Lesper, the noted art critic, has remarked, "In EKO, eroticism is form, a language." He studied under Vlady (Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich [Rusakov], Russian/Mexican, 1920-2005), spending endless hours studying Durer and Rembrandt. EKO is a descendant of the sadistic Countess Batori, who sought eternal life in the blood of young virgins at her castle in Csejta in the 17th Century. [17905]