VISUAL ARTSMARCO MAGGI - VENICE BIENNAL

VISUAL ARTS

They involve:

• ceramics

• drawing

• painting

• sculpture

• printmaking

• design

• crafts

• photography

• video

• filmmaking

• architecture

A GREAT CHANGE

• ‘ARTIST' term restricted to fine arts 

(painting, sculpture, or printmaking)

• not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media

HOWEVER

• 20th Century - Britain - Arts and Craft Movement changed it

• It valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms

COPYRIGHT LAW DEFINITION

• In the US, the copyright law gives a more restrictive definition:

• “A work of visual art is –

• (1) a painting, drawing, print or sculpture, existing in a single copy, in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author, or, in the case of a sculpture, in multiple cast, carved, or fabricated sculptures of 200 or fewer that are consecutively numbered by the author and bear the signature or other identifying mark of the author; or

• (2) a still photographic image produced for exhibition purposes only, existing in a single copy that is signed by the author, or in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author.”

URUGUAYAN VISUAL ARTIST

MARCO MAGGI

• Born 1957, Montevideo

• Carlos Maggi & María Inés Silva Vila - “45th Generation”

• New York and Uruguay based artist 

• Makes use of common materials: office paper, aluminum foil, graphite and even apples

• Creates micro drawings, sculptures and macro installations

STUDIES & CAREER

• 1st exhibition when 16 years old - 1973 - Van Riel Gallery - Buenos Aires

• 1978 1st exhibition in Uruguay “Gardens in a cup of tea” -  Alianza

Uruguay-Estados Unidos

• 1998 MFA (Master of Fine Arts) State University of New York, New Paltz,

NY

• Maggi's work is included in the public collections of: 

• Museum of Modern Art NY • Museum of Fine Arts Houston TX• Walker Art Center MN• Whitney Museum of American Art NY• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco CA• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington DC• Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art IN• Chicago Art Institute IL• Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA• Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA• Cisneros Collection NYC• Daros Foundation Zurich, Switzerland

BIENNALS EXPERIENCE

• Maggi has represented Uruguay in numerous International Biennals:

• Mercosur Biennal 2001 - 2003

• Saint Paul Biennal 2002

• La Habana Biennal 2003

• Cuenca’s Biennal 2011

• Venice Biennal 2015

56TH VENICE BIENNAL 9 MAY - 22 NOV 2015

• Uruguayan pavilion since 1960

• Is one of the 29 national pavilions located

in the Giardini della Biennale.

• Some Uruguayan expositors:

_Gualano - Gualano - 2012

_Wifredo Díaz Valdéz - 2013

_Alejandro Cesarco y Magela Ferrero - 2014

_Marco Maggi - 2015

MARCO MAGGI

• Title:

GLOBAL MYOPIA (pencil & paper)

• A site-specific installation of self adhesive paper and pencils

• Marco Maggi's abstract language refers to the way information is

processed in a global era, and his work challenges the notion of drawing

itself. 

• Myopia as the extraordinary ability to see from very close

• An alphabet of 10,000 elements, cut out of self adhesive archival paper

• “Nearsightedness allows one

to focus carefully on invisible

details, it challenges the

acceleration and the abuse of

long distance relationships

characteristic of our era.”

• “After a farsighted 20th

Century with solutions for

everyone and forever, it

is time to stimulate our

empathy for the

immediate and the

insignificant.”

QUESTIONS?

Thank you!

REFERENCE• Marco Maggi

www.marcomaggi.or

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Maggi

• Universes in Universe

www.universes-in-universe.org/eng/venicebiennale/2015/tour/uruguay

• Visual Arts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts

• Venice Biennal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale

• Copyright Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts#United_States_of_America_copyright_visual_art

• Video

https://vimeo.com/126817336