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Jorge Macchi
Jorge Macchi’s Prestidigitator comprises seven oil paintings, which form an elaborate system of obstacles and detours: images that have been interrupted, in which the surface of geometrical industrial figures constantly competes with a ground that remains ever fragmented and indecipherable. To offer a difficult and to some degree inappropriable painting, one that demands that the spectator make use of a delicate sense of frustration, is a form of a resistance.
What an artist like Macchi offers in this exhibition is the opposite of the assurances that accompany the discourse of painting: a hard-to-classify visual motif that suspends representation in order to demand a new contract with its recipient.
- Authors
- Cuauhtémoc Medina
- Editor
- MUAC-UNAM
- Language
- Spanish & English
- Format
- 16x22 cm
- Edition
- 2014
- Extension
- 40 p.
- Price
- $130
