Paintants Studio: Conjecto Mexico, SAPS

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Conjecto Mexico, SAPS

“Conjecto-Mexico,” 2010
Pigment inks on vinyl sign material, oil, silicone and polymers.
w. 20m x h. 5m
SAPS, Sala Arte Publico Sigueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

“For the Siqueiros Hall of Public Art, 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…”

SAPS, Sala Arte Publico Sigueiros, Mexico
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Fabian Marcaccio

Fabian Marcaccio’s work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used printmaking and transfer techniques to make paintings and became well know in the 1990s for his sculptural manipulations of the two-dimensional surface of canvas. More recently, he has infused his painting process with digital and industrial techniques. The results are environmental works, animations, and “Paintants” that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural forms, and three dimensionally painted surfaces.

Artist's Biography

Bio
Marcaccio was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1963. He lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Major solo exhibitions include “Paintant Stories” Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro (2014), “Some USA Stories” Krefeld Kunstmuseen, Krefeld Germany (2012), “The Structural Canvas Paintants,” Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg Germany (2012) and “From Altered Paintings to Paintants,” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2004). Major group exhibitions include “Summer Projects,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2002), Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002) and the 44th Biennial of Contemporary American painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (1995). Works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, MOMA, Blanton Museum of Art, Miami Museum of Art (MAM), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), among others.