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Marcos Restrepo

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Marcos Restrepo Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoria, founded by Xavier Patino. Artefactoria formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Beautiful Arts in Guayaquil who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious. Members of Artefactoria include: Restrepo, Xavier Patino, Jorge Velarde, Pedro Davila, Alvarado Frame, Flavio Alava, Paco Hill, as well as, cuban artists Saidel Brito and Lupe Alvarez.

In 1996, Restrepo obtained the Second Prize of the V Biennial of International Painting in River Basin, Ecuador for his painting Al Final del Tunel (shown right). In 1986, Restrepo obtained an honorable mention in the Hall Prize of Paris.

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