Marcos Restrepo Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoría, founded by Xavier Patiño. Artefactoría formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil

Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...

 who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious. Members of Artefactoria include: Restrepo, Xavier Patiño, Jorge Velarde

Jorge Velarde

Jorge Velarde is a Contemporary Latin American painter from Ecuador. Velarde has been drawing and painting since he was a child. At the age of 15 Velarde knew that he was meant to be a painter....

, Pedro Dávila, Marco Alvarado, Flavio Álava, aco Cuesta

In 1996, Restrepo obtained the Second Prize of the V Biennial of International Painting in River Basin, Ecuador

Ecuador

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for his painting Al Finál del Tunel (shown right). In 1986, Restrepo obtained an honorable mention in the Hall Prize of Paris.

Some exhibitions

• 1977 - Hall October, Guayaquil
• 1978 - Young Painting, Guayaquil
• 1980 - Hall Julio, Guayaquil
• 1982 - Pinacoteca of the Central bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil
• 1983 - Hall Vicente Rocafuerte, Guayaquil
• 1985 - Contemporary sacred art of Ecuador, Guayaquil
• 1989 - I Hall Art PROESA, Quito
• 1992 - Permanent Exhibition Seville 92
• 1997 - Shared worlds, National Museum of the Central bank of Ecuador, Quito
• 2006 - Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Exposición del Fondo Patrimonial del Museo, Cuenca, Ecuador