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Con-jecto México

Fabián Marcaccio

05 Marzo de 2010 - 09 Mayo de 2010

Espacio de exhibición: Patio de murales

Curaduría: Taiyana Pimentel

The work of Argentinean artist Fabian Marcaccio (Rosario, Argentina, 1963), who has been living and working in New York since the late 1980s, is being presented for the first time in Mexico. His work is known for depicting one of the most striking aspects of contemporary painting, both because of his handling of the material and because of his recurrent and accurate critical narrative on the media, political, scientific, economic and philosophical powers of today’s society. His environmental paintings sometimes include elements and questions drawn from abstract painting and collage, as well as a rejection of the grid, flatness, classical approaches or ones with conventional compositions.

Marcaccio uses the term “paintants” to refer to an extensive, cohesive practice in which he combines photographic material, digital painting, a marked sculptural nature and a dense language of gestures in an attempt to renew the idea of muralism in the digital era and tighten the current discourse on painting. Using cinematographic and musical strategies (such as repetition, echo, vibration, amplification, temporality and movement) Marcaccio creates a factory of inter-related signs that culminate in a complex, integral work, whose dialectic and associations multiply their interpretations. Paintants have an expanded neo-baroque effect in which the pictorial object perceptually resembles a macro-image into which various micro-images blend, thereby creating a more dynamic relationship with multiple contemporary realities.

For the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Marcaccio uses the space originally assigned for Maternidad and Mural para una escuela en el Estado de México, 1971 – 1973, -murals produced by David A. Siqueiros which are currently being restored- and projects a paintant that divides the cubic spaces into dynamic triangles by means of a diagonal support with images and material. With-ject Mexico is proposed as a visual dichotomy that echoes Siqueiros’ work in a spatial, formal and ideological sense, which shoring up various forms of territoriality that have to do with the altered body, organic material and a sinister abstraction of various signs of the media’s power.

Fabián Marcaccio proposes his mural as “an action painting for the participant” that encourages “thinking in a pictorial time-space” and promotes a combination of spatial approaches and experiences denoting the complexity of the pictorial object.