Top: Complete Coverage on Norman Foster, 2014, cuts on 500 paper sheet in plexi box 11.5 x 9 x 2.25" Middle: Tablet, 2014, pencil on clayboard, 14 x 11"Bottom: Motherboard, 2014, pencil on aluminum; Flat Pencil, 2014
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There’s a delicious irony in finding barely readable drawings in a room whose sheer scale often holds out the promise of something lapel-grabbing. Credit the “code switch,” if you will, to the Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi. In West vs. East, a title suggestive of dueling philosophical systems, Maggi, in his sixth show here, defies the expectations raised by the environment in which his work appears.
At a distance, you could mistake a couple of his drawings for framed vapor. Which is to say nothing at all. But, when you move in close you see aerial views of imaginary cities drawn in a hand so small and precise you’ll wish for a magnifying glass and wonder what kind of savant created this work. Maggi seeks nothing less than to concretize the ever-widening gap between knowledge and knowingness.
The two are easily and often confused. Knowledge is what you acquire from experience. It’s something you own. Knowingness is the pretense of ownership. It’s what you get from Twitter or TV news or Facebook. Maggi, who now resides in upstate New York, calls out the difference and questions the ever-increasing conflation of the two. He does it by drawing on unusual substrates (aluminum foil) and by treating conventional media (paper, glass and plexiglas) in novel ways. The results are objects that call into question their own objecthood and force us to ask: What do we know and how we know it?.... Full article here
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