LOVELESS: Variant Paintants, Jerome Zodo Gallery, Milan

LOVELESS: Variant Paintants
Fabian Marcaccio
April 19th - June 7th 2013
Opening April 18th 2013 | 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Jerome Zodo Contemporary
Via Lambro, 7 (ang. Via Melzo)
20129 Milano

Jerome Zodo Contemporary is proud to present in exclusive LOVELESS: Variant Paintants, the first personal exhibition in Italy of Argentinean born, naturalized American, Fabian Marcaccio (1962, Rosario de Santa Fe).

Born in 1963, in Rosario di Santa Fé, of Argentinean mother and Italian father, he won first prize ‘Esso de Pintura y Dibujo’ in Buenos Aires, in 1985. Since then, after entering the Printmaking Laboratory, he has been living in New York. He boasts a top-level international curriculum; in 1995 he participated in the Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and in 2002 at Kassel, Documenta 11. In 2011, he received the Bernhard Heilinger Prize for Sculpture in Berlin. Marcaccio’s interest is directed at painting, interpreted as a language in evolution and constant transformation. He merges the most traditional techniques with digital experience, photography and, more recently, sculpture, thus creating complex works of art that he defines as Paintants, an aesthetic blend of expressive languages. According to his intention: “painting is, on one hand, a form of resistance that can still achieve important and innovative results, incorporating new organic and productive models that involve the heart, brain and courage”.

Fabian Marcaccio is presenting his most recent creation in Milan. Large and medium-sized canvasses composed of rope, water-paints and ink – Rope Paintings – in which the support frame is purposely clearly visible to achieve the effect of a painting in expansion in which the images can be perceived in their entirety. It is a vision that pushes beyond bidimensionality and highlights volumes and surfaces. The works created by Marcaccio “are large and full of matter but, at the same time, full of air and atmosphere. In fact, you can see the wall and supporting structure, the shadow of the painting falling onto the wall. They are paintings that are both reactionary and progressive”.

The canvasses are joined by sculptures, a testimony of the trend that Maracaccio has to deform plastic; figures in aluminium and coloured silicone, assembled objects, with altered shapes, mass amplified and projected outwards. In This Just Out Paintant, 2009, and This Just In Paintant, 2009, the image appears to be manipulated, shaken by a centrifugal force that has pulled the extremity towards a state of imminent explosion. They are structures that mutate their own boundaries, invading space, both physical and perceptually. This is artistic research that Fabian Marcaccio has been doing for many years, following the peremptory idea that art must always renew itself, placing itself in relationship to other expressive forms of language, for example architecture (note his

collaboration with Greg Lynn), music and animated cinema: “Art is constantly aimed at defining itself and defining its relationship to other languages in a state of complexity, both inner and outer, in a condition that is constantly mutating”.

Born in Rosario de Santa Fe, in Argentina in 1963, ex-student of Philosophy, Fabian Marcaccio, has exhibited in varied and important exhibitions and artistic centres, among which: the Krefeld Kunstmuseen, in Krefeld, (2012); the Kunstverein Kölnischer, Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, the Museum Moderner Kunst in Frankfurt, the George Kolbe Museum, in Berlin (2011); the Secession, Vienna (2009); the MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005); the MAM Miami Art Museum (2004); the Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne, Documenta (2002,) Art Unlimited (2006); the Biennale in Seville (2007), Istanbul and Havana, the PS1 in New York (2002). His works of art are present in the most influential collections, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; MOMA, New York, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario, Argentina; MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Puerto Rico; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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