An inside look into artist Fabian Marcaccio's "Paintants Lab" in the SCI-Arc Gallery. Marcaccio considers the "Paintants Lab" to be his dynamic structural atlas, a constellation about pictorial complexity. The lab is constantly evolving ...See moreAn inside look into artist Fabian Marcaccio's "Paintants Lab" in the SCI-Arc Gallery. Marcaccio considers the "Paintants Lab" to be his dynamic structural atlas, a constellation about pictorial complexity. The lab is constantly evolving and is the core of his research. The effect and mood of the lab is in its multiplicity of pictorial concepts, modes and techniques. It is not contingent on any single drawing, digital print, animation or 3D printed object, but on its multiplicity. Its force is in the innumerable branches of evolution and mutation through material, technique, space and time. Marcaccio's hybrid pictorial practice is presented as a log that consists of cartoon-like drawings, objects, animations, and computer drawings. His altered or mutational painting questions image generation and engages the heterogeneity of collage but through new, reabsorbed composites. Marcaccio's work embraces the coexistence of the pictorial and the projected image as well as the coincidence of unruly matter with highly organized micro-structures. Marcaccio situates the act of painting as what he refers to as pictorial "wet knowledge".
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