Overview

Uruguayan Marco Maggi’s needle-thin line drawing webs, nearly invisibly, across surfaces of aluminum, mat black, and paper white. Drawings perceptible only through the shadows they cast are made of the most modest materials. Inscriptions (or encryptions) in Maggi’s vocabulary of “pre-Columbian and post-Clintonian” abstraction suggest incomprehensible alphabets, genome mapping and satellite surveillance. The vast and infinitesimal are identical.

 

The seemingly empty universe is dense with inaccessible information. Deafening white noise.

 

A three-thousand-square-foot paper carpet of intricate incisions and microsculptural monuments casts diminutive shadows that might represent great un-built cities or bacterial colonies. The echoes of Carl Andre and Felix Gonzales-Torres are only formal. Maggi is not about walking on or picking up, but crouching down and looking at. A myopic intimacy that is not only informative, but transformative.

 

In the past two years Maggi has completed installations at the Sao Paulo Biennial; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City; Centro Cultural de Espana, Montevideo; the III and IV Bienal del Mercursor in Brazil as well as galleries in New York, Houston, London, Rome, and Sao Paulo. In October, he will install his piece called inCUBAdora at the VIII Bienal de la Habana.

Works
  • Marco Maggi Sliding IV, 2003 engraved aluminum foil, 35mm slide mounts 20 x 16 in 50.8 x 40.6 cm
    Marco Maggi
    Sliding IV, 2003
    engraved aluminum foil, 35mm slide mounts
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
  • Marco Maggi Sliding V, 2003 engraved aluminum foil, 35mm slide mounts 20 x 16 in 50.8 x 40.6 cm
    Marco Maggi
    Sliding V, 2003
    engraved aluminum foil, 35mm slide mounts
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
  • Marco Maggi Sliding II, 2003 engraved aluminum foil, 35 mm slide mounts 20 x 16 in 50.8 x 40.6 cm
    Marco Maggi
    Sliding II, 2003
    engraved aluminum foil, 35 mm slide mounts
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
  • Marco Maggi Waiting to Surface, 2002 pencil on black clayboard diptych, 28 x 11 inches overall 71.12 x 27.94 cms
    Marco Maggi
    Waiting to Surface, 2002
    pencil on black clayboard
    diptych, 28 x 11 inches overall
    71.12 x 27.94 cms
  • Marco Maggi City Light, 2003 pencil on black clayboard 20 x 16 inches 50.8 x 40.64 cms
    Marco Maggi
    City Light, 2003
    pencil on black clayboard
    20 x 16 inches
    50.8 x 40.64 cms
  • Marco Maggi Homeopathy A & B, 2003 pencil on white clayboard 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 cms
    Marco Maggi
    Homeopathy A & B, 2003
    pencil on white clayboard
    20 x 24 inches
    50.8 x 61 cms
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