Paintants Studio: Lorraine Motel, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Armory 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Lorraine Motel, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Armory 2013

Work featured by Galerie Thomas Schulte at the Armory 2013:

THE ARMORY SHOW, New York | March 7 to 10, 2013
Solo Presentation by Fabian Marcaccio
Booth 610, Pier 94 | Contact +1 646 2754530


Opening	: Wednesday, March 6, noon-8 pm (by invitation)

At next month's Armory Show the gallery will be representing Fabian Marcaccio in an exclusive solo show.
The focus of our stand will be placed on Marcaccio's latest Rope Painting from the ongoing series "USA Stories", a large selection of which has been shown in 2012 during his solo exhibition at Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld.
Marcaccio's Rope Paintings represent a new form of modern history or investigative report painting based on paradigmatic themes in American politics, economics, and society. They are a kaleidoscope of meaning, carrying on Marcaccio's analytical discussion on the medial image-overflow in modern society.
The theme of Marcaccio's latest Rope Painting - the Lorraine motel, the site where Martin Luther King was assassinated - that will be on display at this year's Armory Show, allows the artist to question an historical event and the ground of painting in a contemporary context.

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.