MACCHI Jorge

Jorge Macchi Born in Buenos Aires in 1963, he lives and works in Buenos Aires.

He studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires. In Macchi's view, the simpler and cleaner the object, the more it is capable of containing references and the more its relationship with us will be personal and sentimental. This "oblique strategy" and a sharp sense of black humour are characteristics of his work.

The artist often draws on newspapers, paradigms of information archives based on facts, and his works are also conceived from anecdote, chance and everyday life. Signs are silently broken down and then pieced together again according to a process of "de-familiarization". Macchi clearly shows an interest for margins, endings and fragments, what has fallen behind us. In his universe, everything is in transit, precarious. Nothing is ever permanent. His pieces reflect absences which order the scenes as strongly as each presence. He is an artist of loss and nostalgia.

"The random melody that can be obtained by sticking fragments of newspaper headings onto a pentagram, the text drawn from police reports and used as primary material for the construction of a pentagram, nails in the shape of notes - these are some of the works with which Jorge Macchi composes music and the image... The production of works that include both image and sound have been a constant feature of his output over the years, and coexist alongside his other texts, the photographic ones or the obsessive, rigorous works on paper..." (A. Rosenberg)