If these cartoonish figurations, in his earlier idiom, stem from the Beckmann / Markus Lüpertz / Kippenberger tradition of soured angst and caustic irony, the geometric abstractions bait the US market that has avidly bought into them as
European exoticisms.
Riding notes that: «For many Americans and northern
Europeans... Mexico's main appeal was its sheer
exoticism, the sense that beneath a thin veneer of westernism lay a country profoundly different from anything they had ever known.