The acclaimed Uruguayan Marco Maggi inaugurated a personal exhibition on February 16 in the Spanish capital, which the artists said “proposesan itinerarywith 400 stops and no destination. A slow scandal, a stop that tries to stimulate our fragile sympathy towards the insignificant.”
La menor idea is the title of this exhibition, which from a minimal language in terms of shape and color forms one of those “precise constructions”created by Maggi to “be admired without hoping to be informed.” The scale reduction is one of the strategies used by the artist, as in his approach to the modern individual, receptor of a growing amount of information that can’t be assimilated or decoded, the delicacy stands as a subversive action.
Maggi presently lives in New York. He has participated in Mercosur biennials (2001 and 2003), São Paulo (2002), Havana (2003), Kwangju (2004), Pontevedra (2006), Guatemala (2010)and Cuenca (2011). In January 2012, he showcased two personal exhibitions: Lentissimo, at the Vassar College in New York; and No Idea, at the MoLAA (Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California). Within some days, on March 7, he is going to open Desinformacion Funcional/dibujos en portugues at the Ohtake Institute in São Paulo.
His artworks make up important collections at: Whitney Museum (NY), MoMA (NY), MoCA (Los Angeles), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Daros Collection (Zurich), CIFO (Miami), The Judith Rothschild Foundation (NY), among others.
The exhibition will be opened to viewers at Cayon Gallery through March 31.
Cayon Gallery
Orfila 10 Madrid 28010
Source: Press release
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