Jorge Macchi (1963, Buenos Aires, Argentina) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Through the use of recognizable daily objects like maps, music scores or newspaper pages, and their formal reorganization, Macchi creates a series of visual traps while simultaneously questioning the spectator’s perception.

In 2001, he obtained the research grant in plastic arts – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, USA. He attended artistic residencies at the Cité des Arts, France; Schloss Plueshow, Germany; Duende Artists Initiative, Netherlands; Delfina Studio Trust, United Kingdom, among others. He represented Argentina at the 51^st Venice Biennale, with the work Ascensión, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky (1956, Buenos Aires), an artist with whom he worked in various exhibitory projects.

The work of Macchi was presented at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2020), MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016, 2013), MUAC – Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico, Mexico (2014), Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (2014), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2013), MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2013), 11^th Bienniale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2011), Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany (2009), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil (2009), The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA (2007), 51th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2005), 4^th Biennale de Artes Visuales del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2003). He is widely represented at public and private collections, namely at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Centre Pompidou Collection, Paris, France; Teixeira de Freitas Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; Collection of Diane and Bruce Halle, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Collezione AGI, Verona, Italy; Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; Fundación Banco de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires; Fundación Cisneros, New York, USA; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leôn, Spain; Musée Jenisch Vevey, Switzerland; Tate Modern, London, United Kindgdom.

PS, October 2020

Rui Alexandre Macedo

Artworks

Landscape2004

Jorge Macchi

Michel Majerus