Hailed by his former instructor, Jim Harithas, as “the first great artist of the 21st century,” the late artist Mark Lombardi‘s work was intriguing, complicated, and visually stunning. Lombardi, who died in 2000, illustrated the interplay between international agents and their fiscal maneuvers, tracing the complex paths of shadowy financial transactions between members of the world’s political elite. (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-book-investigates-mysterious-life-conspiracy-artist-mark-lombardi-339661) Mark Lombardi (March 23, 1951-March 22, 2000); American neo-conceptual artist who specialized in drawings that document alleged financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general "the uses and abuses of power". Born in the town of Manlius, New York, just outside Syracuse, New York. He majored in art history at Syracuse University, and graduated with a BA in 1974. While still an undergraduate, Lombardi had a job as chief researcher for a 1973 art exhibit Teapot Dome to Watergate – a multimedia collage, all of whose elements focused on various US governmental scandals; it was motivated by the then-ongoing Watergate scandal. ....Six years before his death, Lombardi switched to link analysis pencil diagrams of crime and conspiracy networks that he would become best known for. In the early 1990s, he began researching the many scandals of the time, including the BCCI scandal, the Harken Energy scandal, and the Savings and Loan scandal. The thousands of index cards that he accumulated in the course of this research began to overwhelm his ability to deal with them, and to cope, Mark began assembling them into physical outlines, and then into hand-written diagrams. ...In March 2000, on the day before his death, Lombardi moved all his work to Pierogi 2000. He then bolted his apartment from the inside and hanged himself, on the day before his birthday and 3 years after he had moved to Williamsburg. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi) undefined

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