Category Archives: Fabian Marcaccio

18.10 – 01.12.2019
SCI-Arc Gallery

 

SCI-Arc is pleased to announce that it will be hosting an exhibition featuring the work of Argentinian artist Fabian Marcaccio, entitled Paintants Lab. The exhibition will run from October 18 through December 1 in the SCI-Arc Gallery, with an opening reception held on October 18 at 7pm.

Marcaccio (b. 1963, Rosario, Argentina) is one of the pioneers of digital painting. He started his practice in the 1990s with the Altered Genetics of Painting, emphasizing the alteration of pictorial content in relation to biogenetics. He moved to an urban scale with a new type of muralism with his Environmental Paintings. These works unified aspects of film, urbanism, architecture, and painting.

 

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Beim Stadthaus, Kunst Museum Winterthur

18.5. – 18.8.2019

 

Frozen Gesture

Gesture in painting

from Roy Lichtenstein to Katharina Grosse

Curators: Konrad Bitterli, Lynn Kost, and Andrea Lutz

 

In 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous «brushstrokes» and in so doing transformed the subjective gesture of heroic Modernism into a trivial comic drawing, transposed into the large format of a museum. The spontaneous movement of the brush on canvas mutated into a quote, the emotional exploration of depth morphed into a Pop surface in signal colors. The purported immediacy of the expressive painterly act thus became an ironic reflection on the medium of painting using the means of mass culture. This distanced and self-reflective approach had defined contemporary painting since the end of Modernism. It highlighted the fundamental elements of the image, such as the appearance of the colors and the pigment, the color fields and their limits, and not least the application of paint in the form of a gesture.

This gesture had long since abandoned directly expressing existence in favor of any number of different discursive strategies and painterly approaches. To this day, artists underscore the problematic nature of the impact of the application of color and are forever reinterpreting it – from the gesture as a semiotic abbreviation for painting through to its diverse transformations in images.

In the form of the extensive «Frozen Gesture» exhibition Kunst Museum Winterthur is presenting the sheer range of gestures in contemporary painting. The exhibition brings together important individual pieces by outstanding protagonists of Abstract Art, such as Gerhard Richter and David Reed, with extensive work groups of contemporary artists such as Franz Ackermann, Pia Fries, Katharina Grosse and Judy Millar – to create a fascinating display of works of exceptional painterly quality and inconceivable sensory appeal.

 

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