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FABIAN MARCACCIO

ARTWORK

Jim Jones, 2012
102½ x 83½ x 77/8 inch
Hand woven manilla rope, climbing rope, alkyd paint, silicone, wood

ARTIST BIO

Fallujah, 2012
98 ¾ x 82 x 77/8 inch 
Hand woven manilla rope, climbing rope, alkyd paint, silicone, wood

Night Mission, 2012
h. 35” x w. 40” x d. 7”
Hand woven manilla rope, climbing rope, alkyd paint, silicone, wood

RESOURCES

FABIAN MARCACCIO

LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK

Born                  1963 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Education         University of Philosophy, Rosario, Santa Fe Argentina

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2013   “Some USA Stories,”  Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

            “Some USA Stories,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Germany

            “Loveless Variant Paintants,” Galeria Jerome Zodo, Milan, Italy

            “Fabian Maracccio: Variant Paintantss,” CAAM, Las Palmas, The Canary Islands.

2012   “Some USA Stories,”  Haus Esters, Krefeld Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany

            “Fabian Marcaccio; The Structural Canvas Paintants,” Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg Germany

2011    Pinta London, Featured Artist, Galerie Thomas Schulte, London, England

            “Corpse: Variant Paintants” Galerie Schmidt MacZollek, Cologne, Germany

             Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture Exhibition, George Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

2010   “Megan: Variant Paintants” Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

            “Conjecto Mexico Paintant” SAPS, Sala Arte Publico Sigueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

2009   “Analytical Rage-Paintants,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Germany

2008   “Draftants,” Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Koln, Germany

2007    Bravin Lee programs, New York City, NY, USA

             Ruth Benzacar, Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina

             Fabian Marcaccio, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

2006  “Especial,” Galerie Maczollek, Cologne, Germany

            “Private Contractor and New Paintants,” Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

2005     “U.N-Paintant,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

            “Paintant Stories,” DAROS Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland

            “Paintant Archeology” FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

            “From Altered Paintings to Paintants,” Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain

            “Ezeiza-Paintant,” MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004  “Jours noirs,” Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris, France
           “Permanent State of Exemption,” Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
           “From Altered Paintings to Paintants,” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
           “Miami Paintant,” MAM Miami Art Museum, Miami

2003  “De-Realized Painting”, Emmapassage, Tilburg, Netherlands

2002  “Janeila’s 5 Moves”, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
           “Summer Projects 2002”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY                               

           “Paintants”, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

2001  Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.(Two-person show with Peter Halley)                                   

           “Sam Gordon / Fabian Marcaccio”, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
            Greg Lynn/Fabian Marcaccio, “Predator”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH: University of                       California, Irvine, CA

2000  “Paintant Stories“, Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Stuttgart Kunstverein, Stuttgart,Germany 1999   “Greg Lynn/Fabian Marcaccio, The Tingler ", Secession Building, Vienna, Austria

            “Time-Paintants” Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York, NY          
            “Early Works”, The Consulate General of Argentina, New York, NY
            “Paintant Story”, Galerie Rob Jurka, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1998   “Fabian Marcaccio – Jessica Stockholder”, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
            “Fabian Marcaccio – Jessica Stockholder, Works on Paper”, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
            “With-ject Spain”, Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
            “Paintant Compounds”, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
            “Con-jecto Argentina”, Galeria Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1997   “Paintants”, Baumgartener Gallery, Washington, D.C.
            “Paintants #2”, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

1996  “Conjectural Amendments”Bravin Post Lee Gallery, Expoarte, Guadalajara, Mexico
             Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
             Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1995   “Paint-Zone”, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
            “Paint-Zone L.A.”, Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            “Use of Evidence”, Contemporary Art Museum U.S.F. Tampa, FL (two person)

1994     “On Unpaintables”,Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
            “New Paint Management”, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany

            “The Altered Genetics of Painting”New York, NY
            “Mutual Betrayal”, Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands                       

            “Unpaintables”, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

1992    John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY (two person)
             “Inter-Painting”, Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013  “seven @ SEVEN 2” The Boiler, Brooklyn, New York

            “Imprinted Images” Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, New York

            “X-tra” Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York

            “Swing Space” Jane Kim Gallery, New York, New York

2012   “Haute Malerei” Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany

            “Richterania.” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2011   “MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Contemporary” MMK, Frankfurt, Germany

             “The End of History and the Return of History Painting” Curated by Paco Barragan ,DA2,  Salamanca,                 Spain. 

              Group Show, BravinLee Projects, New York, NY

             “Radical Shift. Political and Social Upheaval in Argentinian Art since the 1960s,” Museum Morsbroich,                 Leverkusen, Germany

             “When a Painting Moves…Something Must Be Rotten” curated by Paco Barragan, Stenersen Museet,                 Oslo, Norway, Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College Art Gallery, Miami.

2009    “Slow Paintings, ”  Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

              "The Big exploration, ”   Im Tal - Stiftung Wortelkamp, Hasselbach, Germany

2008     You & me, Sometimes, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA

2007    “Das Kapital - Bluechips and Masterpieces” / Sammlung Rolf Ricke, MMK/Museum für Moderne Kunst,                Frankfurt, Germany

              “Le Syndrome de Babylone,” Le Frac Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France

               Biennale Sevilla, Spain, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

2006     “Big Juicy Paintings” Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

              “Transformation,” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

              “Studio in the park,” Riverside Park, New York, NY, USA

              “Broken Surface,” Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany

2005    “Yankee love and Latin Doodle”, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

             “What´s New Pussycat?,” Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

             “Sweet Temptations – Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Fricke”, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

             “Swing Space – Performance Space”, Performance and Installation, Weston Hall, Toronto
             “Goya and Here Comes The Bogey-Man”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY (June-Sept 2005)
             “Baroque and Neobaroque. The Hell of the Beautiful”, Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de                               Salamanca, Spain (Oct 2005-Jan 2006)
             “Le syndrome de Babylone”, FRAC Auvergne, Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc,                               Annemasse, France

2004    “Surface Tension”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY      

             “Before And After Science”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; (19 Feb. – 5 April)
             “The Triennial for Art by the Sea, Seascape in Confrontation”, Beaufort 2003, Oostende, Belgium (April              – Sept)
             “Painting’s Edge 2003”, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwilds Arts, Idyllwilds, CA
             “Schokolade, was denn sonst - Sammlung Rolf Ricke”, Kunstraum Innsbruck (Apr-June)
             “8. Biennale Havanna 2003”, Havanna (Nov-Dec)
             “Intricacy, A Project by Greg Lynn”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (18 Jan. – 6 April);                   Yale University, New Haven (2 Sept-7 Nov)
             “La Langue dans la Boue”, FRAC Auvergne, Musée des Arts Textiles, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2002    “Attack: Attraction, Photography – Painting”, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 5 Dec.-                           31.Jan.
             “Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the present” Florida                   University, Miami, FL; (20 Sept.-8 December)
              Documenta 11 “Multiple-Site-Paintant”, Kassel, Germany; (8 June - 15 September)
             “Einfach Kunst, Sammlung Rolf Ricke”, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany; (6 June-25 August)

2001    “Rotativa”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brasil; (7 Dec. 2001-18 January 2002)
              7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (21 September - 17 October)
             “Geometrie & Gestus”, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; curated by Nicolas Ruzicska (22                   Jul.-31 Aug.)
             “Hybrids”, Liverpool Tate, Liverpool, UK; (6 April - 24 June)
             “Transpolyblue”, Smith Contemporary Art, St.-Louis, MO
             “Secretation”, Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
             “Trans>arts.cultures.media presents Trans>editions”, Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; (30                        Mar-17 Apr)
             “The Beauty of Intimacy”, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (catalogue)

2000   “Snapshot”, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (2 Nov.- 14 Jan.)
            “Unlimited Space”, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France, curated by Catherine Perret
            “Flux et transparencies”, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France, curated by Christine Buci-
            Glucksmann and Catherine Perret
            “Lasker, Marcaccio, Uslé”, Marcel Sitkoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
            “Movin' on Up”, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England
            “Working Digitally”, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Stanford, CT, curated by Saul Ostrow
            “Super-Abstraction”, The Box, Naples, Italy, curated by Andrea Busto
            “Universal Abstraction 2000”, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MI
            “bit_by_bit: painting & digital culture Voxpopuli”, Numark Gallery, Washington,D.C., Philadelphia, PA
            “Six Abstract Artists at the Millenium”, David Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY; (brochure)
            Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA; New Work: Abstract Painting (4 Jan. – 19 Feb.)

1999     “Painting Language”, L.A Louver, Los Angeles, CA, (2 Dec. 1999 – 8 January, 2000)
               Warren Robbins Gallery, School of Art & design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;
              “Gesture and Contemporary Painting,” curated by Brian Stechschulte and Mike Underwood
              “Macro-Micro” Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas:
              “Abstract: Eine Definition Abstrakter Kunst and der Schwelle des Milleniums”, Galerie Thaddaeus                        Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
             “Unprivileged Space”, Boras Konstmuseum, Bildmuseet, Umew and Edsvik Konst och Kultur                                 Sollentuna, Sweden, curated by Elizabeth Haglund

1998    “Sick of Photography: A Painting Show”, Santa Barabara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, curated by                        Michael Darling
               Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
             "The Forty-Fifth Biennial", Curated by Terrie Sultan, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
             “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, and Kemper Museum of                 Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen
             “Spectacular Optical”, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY and Museum of Contemporary Art, North                   Miami, Fl, curated by Lia Gangitano
             “Jahresgaben”, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

 

 

SELECTED CATALOGUES

Vergne, Jean-Charles, “Fabian Marcaccio – Paintant Archeology”, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand 2005
Meyer-Stoll, Christiane; Panera Cuevas, Javier, "From Altered Paintings to Paintants", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein; DA 2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain, Ausstellungskatalog 2004
Marcaccio, Fabian; Meyer-Stoll, Christiane, "661 Conjectures For a New Paint Management, 1989-2004", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Ausstellungskatalog  2004
Lynn, Greg, "Intricacy", ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Ausstellungskatalog 2003
Goetz, Ingvild and Meyer-Stoll, Christiane, “Fabian Marcaccio, Jessica Stockholder”, Sammlung Goetz, Munich 1998
Damianovic, Maia, "Transformal", Wiener Secession, Vienna 1996.
Beyt, Mary, "Alice's Looking Glass", Apex Art, New York 1996.
Krane, Susan, "Tampering", The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (brochure) 1995.
Moos, David, "Architecture of The Mind", Galerie Barbara Farber, (exhibition curated by David Moos, Afterword by Philip David Zelazo, May 1995.

Moos, David, "Outside You", Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1995
Damianovic, Maia, "Fractured Seduction," Artifact Gallery, Israel 1994.
Beatrice, L. and Perrella, C., "Teddy and Other Stories", Claudio Bottello Arte & Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy 1993.
Collins & Milazzo, "Needlepoint, Embroidery, Macrame and Crochet," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 1993.
Iannacci, Anthony, "Toolbox", Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy 1993.
Ottman, Klaus, "Irony & Ecstasy", Salama-Caro Gallery, London 1993.
Schwabsky, Barry, "Fabian Marcaccio", Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam 1993.
Paparoni, Demetrio, "Italia-America: L'astrazione Ridefinita", Galeria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Masini, Italy 1993.
Collins & Milazzo, "Theoretically Yours", Museum of the Region of Aosta, Italy 1992.
Rubell, Jason, "Inter-Painting", Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 1992.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael, "The Altered Genetics of Painting", John Post Lee Gallery Publication Volume 2. 1992
Morgan, Robert, "The Post Dialectical Index", Sala Comunale Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, Italy, Lattuada Studio,
Milan, Horodner Romley Gallery, NY 1992
Laddaga, Reinaldo, Fabian Marcaccio, Jacob Karpio Gallery, Costa Rica

 

AWARDS/GRANTS

2011 Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture given by the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, Germany.

2006 Percent for Art Purchase, Circulation Paintant, University of Akron Student Affairs Building, Akron, OH.

2001 Project grant for collaboration with architect Greg Lynn, Predator, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH.

1985 First Prize, Premio Esso de Pintura y Dibujo, Fondacion Esso, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

COLLECTIONS

Esso Foundation, Argentina

Fondacional Arche, Argentina

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

MOMA, New York, NY

Margulies Collection, New York, NY

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario, Argentina

MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Puerto Rico

Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein

Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea San Marino, San Marino

Daros Latinamerica, Zurich. Switzerland

Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fondacion La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Boras Konstmusem, Boras, Sweden

High Museum, Atlanta

Kunstmuseen Krefeld Museum, Krefel

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