Jorge Macchi

Jorge Macchi: “For me the works starts with an image, not an idea”

Jorge Macchi works in painting, drawing, installation, sound, video and sculpture. Simplicity in the object is important to Macchi’s work and he deems a simple object to be more capable of holding and communicating references. It is through this simplicity that the object is able to be personal and sentimental for the viewer. He has an almost surrealist approach to objects, exposing hidden connections between our surroundings, history and our own experiences through their presentation. Macchi shows an interest in margins, boundaries, fragments and pairings, such as presence and absence, fate and chance and the conviviality of conscious actions and automatism. His works consider the anecdotal, chance and every day. The real weight of his works is often to be found in the spaces between instances of sound, or the absences between signs and images. These absences are as influential to the constitution of the work as its present sounds or objects. Music and sound are important elements. They operate at different levels of materiality and effect – sometimes aurally present and sometimes visually alluded to. Trained as a child to play piano, Macchi’s art naturally involves music and sound to achieve all-encompassing and multi-disciplinary projects.

Artists

Adel Abdessemed Etel Adnan Ai Weiwei Leila Alaoui Juan Araujo Kader Attia Barbana Bojadzi Daniel Buren Cai Guo-Qiang Alejandro Campins Iván Capote Yoan Capote Loris Cecchini Elizabet Cerviño Chen Zhen Nikhil Chopra Marcelo Cidade Carlos Cruz-Diez Jonathas de Andrade Berlinde De Bruyckere Leandro Erlich Carlos Garaicoa Osvaldo González Antony Gormley Gu Dexin Shilpa Gupta Subodh Gupta Carsten Höller Eva Jospin JR Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Zhanna Kadyrova Kan Xuan Anish Kapoor André Komatsu Jannis Kounellis Julio Le Parc Luis López-Chávez Jorge Macchi Ahmed Mater Cildo Meireles José Mesías Sabrina Mezzaqui Moataz Nasr Rudi Ninov Hans Op de Beeck Ornaghi & Prestinari Giovanni Ozzola Susana Pilar Michelangelo Pistoletto Qiu Zhijie Tobias Rehberger Arcangelo Sassolino Manuela Sedmach Serse Kiki Smith Nedko Solakov Marta Spagnoli José Antonio Suárez Londoño Hiroshi Sugimoto Sun Yuan & Peng Yu Ana Maria Tavares Pascale Marthine Tayou Armando Testa Nari Ward Sislej Xhafa José Yaque Zhuang Hui

Jorge Macchi: “For me the works starts with an image, not an idea”

Artists