Marco Maggi: Subatomic society
Nara Roesler S茫o Paulo is pleased to present Subatomic Society, a solo exhibition by Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi. The exhibition showcases 21 works, focusing primarily on recent creations produced over the past two years.
Since the beginning of his career in the 1990s, Marco Maggi has employed the mechanisms of contemporary perception鈥攕haped by speed, immediacy, and voracity鈥攁s both a starting point and a subject of critique. Maggi鈥檚 work directly challenges the disengaged and hurried gaze with which we now perceive the world around us. His propositions take the opposite path, urging viewers to adopt an active presence鈥搊ne that seems out of step with today鈥檚 logic, despite our era鈥檚 obsession with practices like mindfulness.
At first glance, Maggi鈥檚 works may appear silent, and in some cases, nearly imperceptible. The miniature scale in which they are created demands a keen and attentive eye. Only then does their complexity unfold: intricate, minuscule geometric patterns, dashed lines, and even structures with architectural tendencies emerge from their surfaces, revealing an unexpected and interwoven network.
For Maggi, his exhibition maintains a direct connection with the realm of natural sciences. He is particularly interested in the shift from Classical Physics to Quantum Physics in the early 20th century. This relationship is introduced through the title Subatomic Society. While Classical Mechanics deals with the forces acting on objects larger than the atom, Quantum Physics delves into the subatomic universe, where 鈥渋nstabilities, uncertainties, and imprecisions increase. These characteristics define the subatomic world par excellence and closely relate to how we see and communicate in contemporary society,鈥� explains the artist.
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Nara Roesler S茫o Paulo is pleased to present Subatomic Society, a solo exhibition by Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi. The exhibition showcases 21 works, focusing primarily on recent creations produced over the past two years.
Since the beginning of his career in the 1990s, Marco Maggi has employed the mechanisms of contemporary perception鈥攕haped by speed, immediacy, and voracity鈥攁s both a starting point and a subject of critique. Maggi鈥檚 work directly challenges the disengaged and hurried gaze with which we now perceive the world around us. His propositions take the opposite path, urging viewers to adopt an active presence鈥搊ne that seems out of step with today鈥檚 logic, despite our era鈥檚 obsession with practices like mindfulness.
At first glance, Maggi鈥檚 works may appear silent, and in some cases, nearly imperceptible. The miniature scale in which they are created demands a keen and attentive eye. Only then does their complexity unfold: intricate, minuscule geometric patterns, dashed lines, and even structures with architectural tendencies emerge from their surfaces, revealing an unexpected and interwoven network.
For Maggi, his exhibition maintains a direct connection with the realm of natural sciences. He is particularly interested in the shift from Classical Physics to Quantum Physics in the early 20th century. This relationship is introduced through the title Subatomic Society. While Classical Mechanics deals with the forces acting on objects larger than the atom, Quantum Physics delves into the subatomic universe, where 鈥渋nstabilities, uncertainties, and imprecisions increase. These characteristics define the subatomic world par excellence and closely relate to how we see and communicate in contemporary society,鈥� explains the artist.
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