68 www.libwrwosw..ulnibamro.sm.uxnam.mx Folio 009 Jorge Macch i Prest idigita dor Jorge Macchi (Buenos Aires, 1963). Lives in the city of his birth, where he studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. He works with everyday materials subjected to subtle, ingenious gestures of decontextualization that succeed in multiplying – in an intermediate place between fiction and reality – the possibilities for perceiving a simple form. The specificity of medium is of great importance in his methodology. In 2001 he received a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His solo exhibitions include: Container at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland (2013); Music Stands Still at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) in Ghent, Belgium (2011); The Anatomy of Melancholy at Santander Cultural in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007), Light Music at the University of Essex Gallery, U.K.; Jorge Macchi at Le 10 Neuf – Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France (2001); and The Wandering Golfer at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Antwerp, Belgium (1998). Artist: Jorge Macchi Authors: Cuauhtémoc Medina Editors: muac-unam Editorial Coordination: Ekaterina Álvarez Romero Language: Spanish and English First edition, 2014 Extension: 40 pages Format: 8.66 in x 6.3 in MSRP: $8.65 USD ISBN: 978-607-02-5079-8 Target: University community, academics and public interested in contemporary art. 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 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. Contemporary Art
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