Fabian Marcaccio: Paintant Lab
Visiting Artist Lecture
Friday, Nov 14, 7pm
SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA
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Free and open to the public, broadcast live at www.sciarc.edu/live/
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.
Fabian Marcaccio was born in 1963 in Rosario,
Argentina where he attended the University of Philosophy. At age 22, he
moved to New York City, where he continues to live and work. He has
exhibited widely throughout the US, Europe and South America. In 2004,
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein organized a retrospective of his work, the
same year that a solo exhibition of his work was mounted
at the Miami
Art Museum.
Fabian Marcaccio, Paintant Stories, 2000, installed in 2014 at Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro
Marcaccio regularly exhibits with galleries in New York, Los
Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Cologne and Barcelona and produces large scale
environmental works with institutions such as Daros Latin America
(Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, 2014), SAPS: Proyecto Siqueiros + Sala de Arte
Público (Mexico City, 2012), Documenta 11 (Kassel, Germany, 2002), and
Summer Projects at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York, 2002).
