Baltasar

Baltasar A co-production of Slagwerk Den Haag en VocaalLab

“… The Dutch/Argentinean composer Claudio Baroni uses five singers and four percussionists as well as electronics and video animation to create a multidisciplinary spectacle that promises to be a memorable finale to November Music 2010... Images, music, and texts merge seamlessly and unexpectedly reinforce each other. This music theatre project is the result of a one of a kind collaboration between composer Claudio Baroni, writer Reinaldo Laddaga, and visual artist Fabian Marcaccio. The narrative tells the amazing story of a group of ragged militants plotting an attack on a mysterious hotel, helped by a child, their ultimate mascot…”
November Music: International Festival for New Music.

Concept and composer: Claudio Baroni
Video and set design: Fabian Marcaccio
Text: Reinaldo Laddaga

Percussion: Slagwerk Den Haag: Fedor Teunisse, Niels Meliefste, Juan Martinez, Joey Marijs
Vocals: VocaalLAB: Janneke Daalderop (soprano), Maria de los Angeles Marques Fernandez (soprano), Ekaterina Levental (mezzo soprano), Arnout Lems (baritone), Job Hubatka (baritone)
Narrator (NL): Dawn Mastin

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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Biography

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.

Overview of work

3DEP (3D Printed Environmental Paintants)

3D Printed Panels, Plastemas

Paintant Lab (more here)

Rope Paintings 

Podium, 2011

Wood, rope, alkyd paint, silicone

W. 82” x h. 100” x d. 6”

Waco, 2011

Wood, rope, alkyd paint, silicone

W. 100” x h. 82” x d. 6”

Limo, 2011

Wood, rope, alkyd paint, silicone

W. 100” x h. 82” x d. 6”

Liberation Theology Christ, 2011

Wood, rope, alkyd paint, silicone

W. 82” x h. 100” x d. 6”

Lorraine Motel

Wood, hand woven rope, alkyd paint, silicone

W. 82” x h. 100” x d. 6”

Variants

Corpse Variant Paintants, 2011
Gallerie Schmidt MacZollek, Cologne, Germany

Breaking News Variant Paintants, 2011
4th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art

Megan Variant Paintants, 2010
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

Draftants

Draftants, 2008

Sintra, mixed medium, drawing material

Private Contractor (draftant), 2007

multiple drafting materials, pigmented inks on sintra, 

24x28 inches

Essential Graffiti (draftant), 2007

multiple drafting materials, pigmented ink on sintra, spray paint on wall, 

28x24 inches.

New Deal (draftant), 2007, 

multiple drafting materials, pigmented inks on sintra, 

28x24 inches

 Structural Canvas

UN Paintant, 2005

oil, silicone and solvent-based ink on canvas metal structure.

280cm x 550 cm x 470 cm

Dolares, 2007
oil, silicone and solvent-based ink on canvas metal structure.
Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Installation view
Analytical Rage, 2009
Thomas Schulte Gallery

Installation view
Analytical Rage, 2009
Thomas Schulte Gallery

Collaborations with composer Claudio Baroni

Pulsation Toronto, 2005

Paintball pigments on wall

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Exhibition: Wallworks; Contemporary Artists and Place

See Videos here and here.

Particles, 2008

Animation with composition by Claudio Baroni.

Premiered by the Ensemble MAE, directed by Bas Wiegers at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, Oct. 30^th, 2008.

Baltasar,  co-production of Slagwerk Den Haag en VocaalLab
2010
Concept and composer: Claudio Baroni
Video and set design: Fabian Marcaccio
Text: Reinaldo LaddagaMore info here.   

Panel Paintings

 

After Human Rights, 2003
Pigmented inks, Silicone, alkyd paint on canvas144" x 96"

 

Rapto, 2007
Pigmented inks, Silicone, alkyd paint on canvas
96" x 72"

   Animations

YouTube channel

Environmental Paintings

IMF Paintant Mirror, 2001

Pigmented inks on vinyl, oil, silicone, polyoptics.

w. 13’ x h. 29 1/2”

7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (21 September - 17 October)

See video here

Multi-Site Paintant, 2002

Pigmented ink on canvas, silicone, poly-optic resins, oil, wood and metal

Dimensions: 3m x 70 m

Original Site: Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

See Video here

Confine Paintant (Destroyed), 2003
Pigmented ink on canvas, silicone, poly-optic resins, oil, wood and metal
Dimensions: 2m x 90m
Original Site: Triennial for Art by the Sea, Seascape in Confrontation, Beaufort, Belgium
See video here

Re-sketching Democracy, 2004

Pigment inks, oil, acrylic, silicone, and polymer on vinyl and wooden structure

96 3/4 x 11 ft./29.5 x 3.4 m

Originally installed at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein then Museum DA2 in Salamanca

See video here

Ezeiza-Paintant, 2005

Pigmented ink on canvas, silicone, poly-optic resins, oil, wood and metal

4m x 30m

Original Site: MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

See video here

The Fall, May 2006 to September 2006

oil, silicone and solvent-based ink on vinyl on wooden structure

digital print, plexiglas, wood

Studio in the Park, Riverside Park, West 72nd to West 145th Streets, NY, NY

16-foot high by 90-foot long

See video here

Topographical Paintant, 2006
Pigmented Inks on heavy traffic vinyl, alkyd and oil colors, polymers, silicone, and various materials
Dimensions: Approx 93 Sq. meters
Seville, Spain
Exhibition: Biennial 2nd International of Contemporary Art of Seville

Collaborations with Greg Lynn

Fabian Marcaccio and Greg Lynn
Tingler, 1999
Pigment inks, oil, acrylic, silicone, and polymer on vinyl and metal structure
Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria

Fabian Marcaccio and Greg Lynn
Tingler, Interior Detail

Predator, 2001

Vacu-formed plastic, digitally printed and painted

w. 6m  x 10m x h. 3m

Original site: Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University

http://www.wexarts.org

Exhibited at Beall Center for Art University of California, Irvine, CA

Collection of: Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Predator, detail.

Predator, detail

Early Abstraction

Subject And-And-And Object, 1991
Oil, photograph, silicone on linen and carved wood
80" x 72"

Untitled, 1992
Oil on silicone gel
72" x 86"

Painting-Wall Abortion #2, 1992
Oil, burlap, silicone on printed fabric, plaster cast, carved wood
86” x 100” (dimensions variable)

Paint-Zone L.A. #3, 1995
Pigmented plaster on burlap, drawing
Dimensions variable

Mutual Betrayal, 1992
Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.

Sky Folder, 1993
Bristles, Silicone, Galvanized Steel
Dimensions variable
Installed at Anders Tornberg Gallery

Tent Paintings

Paint-Zone LA #3, 1995
Water and Oil based paint on canvas, copper tubing and nylon ropes.
96" x 100" x 12"

Paintant - New Nation (Para-Military-Fantasy), 1996
Water and Oil based paint on canvas, copper tubing and nylon ropes.
96" x 100" x 12"

Paintant - New Nation #3, 1997/1998
Water and oil base paint on banner canvas, metal tubes and nylon ropes
98" x 90" x 14"