Fabian Marcaccio:
Miami-Paintant
October 29, 2004 - January 23, 2005
New Work Gallery
Fabian Marcaccio uses the traditional elements of
painting to create works that are not paintings at
all but new inventions he calls "paintants," or
mutant paintings. The artist manipulates figure and
ground, brushstroke, even the way canvas is stretched.
He mixes diverse media in a single work, employing
printmaking, digital photography, painting, and sculpture.
In doing so, he transforms painting's surface into
something that surrounds the viewer.
Marcaccio's environmental paintants, which he has exhibited
both indoors and outdoors, suggest murals, banners,
panoramic scenery and makeshift shelters.
Miami-Paintant,
created especially for MAM, is about 100-feet long
and 13-feet high. The work appears to begin in a white
void that suddenly gives way to a tumultuous gathering
of images, filled with fleshy forms and ominous thickets,
and ends in chaotic darkness.
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The exhibition
is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by Associate
Curator Cheryl Hartup as part of New Work,
a series of projects by leading contemporary artists.
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