Fabian Marcaccio

FABIAN MARCACCIO (Rosario, Argentina, 1963)
Untitled.1998.
Aluminum sculpture.
Without signature.
Provenance: Joan Prats Gallery.

Fabian Marcaccio is an Argentine-Italian artist living and working in the United States whose transgender works, including "Paintants" and "Draftants," have been exhibited worldwide.

Marcaccio was born to an Argentine mother and Italian father in Rosario de Santa Fe, where he later attended the University of Philosophy. In 1985, at the age of 22, he moved to New York, where he continues to live and work. He has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe and South America. In 2004, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein organized a retrospective of his work, the same year a solo exhibition was mounted at the Miami Art Museum. He exhibits regularly in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Cologne and Barcelona. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: the 44th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 1995; Summer Projects at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, in 2002, and Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, in 2002. His multidisciplinary collaborations include projects with architect Greg Lynn, which resulted in an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, in 2001, and projects with composer Claudio Baroni, with whom he created animated operas and a paintball performance with soundtrack in 2005 at Weston Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Marcaccio's work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used print transfer techniques to create paintings and became famous in the 1990s for his manipulations of painting conventions. More recently, he has turned to digital and industrial techniques to infuse his painting process with spatial and temporal concerns. The result is environmental paintings, animations and "Paintants" that combine digitally manipulated images, sculptural forms and three-dimensional painted surfaces.

On September 10, 2011, Marcaccio received the "Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture 2011" from the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.