In covering the Comme des Garcons Printed Matter exhibit at Dover Street Market last week, I was introduced to the work of Argentinian art collective Mondongo, and in the interim have become slightly obsessed.

"Mondongo emerges onto the Argentine art scene amidst the splatter of cultural alternatives and proves to be one of the more positive results of the recent crisis. They espouse a group aesthetic, working closely; almost incestuously, together; sharing ideas, playing with them, pushing them around, abandoning them, and then putting into practice whatever passes the test – literally a three-pronged test that satisfies their intellectual concerns with regards the history of the medium of painting and the production of images in a society such as our own."

"Mondongo makes their own portrait gallery where each work combines a play between material and personality: the portarit of the passionate Ruth Benzacar is constructed from matches; David Bowie from his brand of make-up as a glamour rock idol of the seventies"; and the Spanish Royal Family from small mirror fragments that suggest opulence and glitter."

Read more here. Make sure to checkout their site. Their body of work is amazing: from the Red Riding Hood series to the celebrity portraits and teen porn works made of cookies to their images of the American dollar bill done in black then broken into parts and put back together again.

Don't forget to checkout a sampling of their work that I love below.