Paintants Studio: "Some USA Stories" Dirimart Gallery

Thursday, September 19, 2013

"Some USA Stories" Dirimart Gallery

"Some USA Stories"
Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Dirimart is to host the Argentinian artist Fabian Marcaccio’s one-person exhibition Some USA

Stories between September 12 and October 12.

Some USA Stories marks the first solo exhibition of the artist in Turkey. It will be

simultaneously held with the Istanbul Biennial at Dirimart’s main exhibition venue at

Nişantaşı.

Some USA Stories displays selected works from the artist’s same-titled series, which was

exhibited in 2012 at the Kunstmuseum Krefeld. The conceptual framework of the series is

centered on the history and the leading figures of the USA. The artist interprets American

society and its economy while inviting the viewers to explore the dark side of the country.

Marcaccio’s Some USA Stories redefines contemporary painting as both a study on historical

events as well as the nature of painting itself, and in doing so he invites the viewer to step on

the other side of the canvas.

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.