Alan Altamirano started his artistic career at 16 years old, going to drawing and painting classes at the Escuela de Bellas Artes. After graduating, he majored in Visual Art at the University Benito Juarez in Oaxaca, soon forging his own path through the huge amounts of creation and art that flows through the city of the Oaxaca. It is exactly in the middle of this huge mass of creation where the art of Mk Kabrito shines: as an honest and personal offering, in which the threads of infinity caress human nature, all the while represented through the feminine.
At 29 years of age he has mounted 19 individual expositions, and participated in more than 50 collective expositions in countries including Italy, Cuba, Serbia, Spain, Romania, Japan, China, the United States, Argentina, and Mexico. He was recently awarded with the Third Prize in The 10th kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, and his art has been recognized in many different national and international competitions, including the 6th Guanlan International Print Biennial (China), Bienal Internacional Print Exhibit (Taiwan), Tercer Concurso Internacional de Grabado Garzapapel (Spain), 12.Th International Biennial of Engraving Premio Acqui (Italy) y la IX Trienal Internacional de Grabado Kochi (Japan). He has been provided grants by the Secretary of Culture of Oaxaca and Generator for projects like the International Print Portfolio Raíces I, II y III. He is the cofounder of the Taller Galería Gabinete Gráfico 2011 and founder of the print studio La Chicharra 2014, of the Galería Bel 2015 and of the Taller Oaxaca Gráfico 2016
Mk Kabrito strives to eternalize human existence in his art, finite and ephemeral, through representation of the soul. In it, woman is portrayed as the architect of the absolute, as the vital center of the universe, as almost omnipotent, grooved by a spiritual line that extends into eternity. Interlaced with a never ending labyrinth of marks, that line circles and unties forever, making it the infinite, that dissolves the material in reflections, in dreams, in phantoms. In the art of MK Kabrito, water, earth, fire, and air repeat in a cyclical manner, creative and pure elements; fractals, fish and orchids, representing the unity and uniqueness of human beings.
Laura Barragán