Marco Maggi

Marco Maggi (born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a New York and Uruguay based artist[1] whose work incorporates common materials such as office paper, aluminum foil, graphite and apples to create micro drawings, sculptures and macro installations[2][3]

Maggi will represent Uruguay at the upcoming 2015 Venice Biennale.[4]

Education

Public collections

Maggi's work is included in the public collections of Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (CA), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis, IN), Chicago Art Institute (Chicago, IL), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), Cisneros Collection ( NYC ), Daros Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland).[5]

Selected shows

Mercosur Biennial ( Porto Alegre, Brazil 2001), Sao Paulo Biennial ( Sao Paulo, Brazil 2002), Havanna Biennial ( Havanna, Cuba 2003), Construcciones & Demoliciones ( Centro Cultural de España Montevideo, Uruguay 2003), Gwangju Biennial ( Gwangju, Korea 2004), Pontevedra Biennial ( Pontevedra, Spain 2006), Poetics of the Handmade ( Los Angeles MoCA, CA 2006), New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 - 2006 ( MoMA, NY 2008), Bienal de Guatemala ( Guatemala, 2010), Optimismo Radical ( NC Arte Bogotá, Colombia 2011), Bienal de Cuenca ( Cuenca, Ecuador 2012), Lentissimo ( Vassar College, NY 2012), Drawings in Portuguese ( Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, 2012), Figari Prize, Career Award ( Museo Figari Montevideo, Uruguay 2012).

Publications

Other Publications (Catalogues and Books)

100 Latin American Artists, EXIT Publishers, Madrid, Spain, 2006 Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press, New York, NY, 2005 Gwangju Biennial, catalog, text by Marco Maggi, 2004 Havana Biennial, catalog, text by Ana Tiscornia, 2003 IV Mercosur Biennial, catalog, text by Gabriel Peluffo, 2003 "Construcciones & Demoliciones", essay by Robert Hobbs, Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2003 Weintraub, Linda. "Being Gently Subversive", In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, d.a.p. Sao Paolo Biennial, catalog, text by Marco Maggi, 2002 III Mercosur Biennial, catalog, text by Angel Kalemberg, 2001 By Hand: pattern precision and repetition in contemporary drawing, University Art Museum, Text by Marie-Kay Lombino, College of the Arts, California state University, Long Beach, 2001 Marco Maggi: Global Myopia, Text by Dana Self, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001 The Pencil Monologues, introduction by Josée Bienvenu, 123 Watts, New York, NY, 2000 Drawing on Tradition, Texts by Denise Markonish, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Microwave, one, introduction by Josée Bienvenu, text by Marco Maggi, 123 Watts, New York, NY Techtonic, essay by Linda Weintraub, 123 watts, New York, NY, 1998

References

  1. 1 2 "Marco Maggi Biography and Links – Marco Maggi on artnet". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  2. ↑ "Visual Yogiisms in Marco Maggi’s PARKING ANY TIME at Josée Bienvenu Gallery « The Drawing Center". Drawingcenter.org. 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  3. ↑ Kenneth Baker (2006-04-08). "Artists reveal slivers of information in S.F. shows". Articles.sfgate.com. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Marco Maggi will represent Uruguay at the upcoming Venice Biennale". biennialfoundation.org. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
  5. ↑ "Marco Maggi Bio" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-07.

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