Fabian Marcaccio (born 1963 in

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) is an Argentine-Italian born artist living and working in the United States whose trans-genre works including "Paintants" and '"Draftants" have been exhibited worldwide. Marcaccio was born to a native Argentine mother and Italian father in Rosario de Santa Fehttp://www.artnet.com/artists/fabian-marcaccio/ where he later attended the University of Philosophy. In 1985, at age 22, he moved to

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, where he continues to live and work. He has exhibited widely throughout the

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and

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. In 2004,

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organized a retrospective of his work, the same year that a solo exhibition was mounted at the

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. He regularly exhibits with galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Cologne and Barcelona. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including; the 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,

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, Washington, DC in 1995, Summer Projects at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York in 2002, and

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11,

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in 2002. His multidisciplinary collaborations include projects with the architect

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that resulted in an exhibition at the

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, Columbus, Ohio in 2001 and projects with composer Claudio Baroni creating animated operas and a 2005 scored, paintball performance at

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, Ontario, Canada. Marcaccio’s work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used printmaking transfer techniques to make paintings and became well known in the 1990s for his manipulations of the conventions of painting. More recently, he has relied upon digital and industrial techniques to infuse his painting process with spatial and temporal concerns. The results are environmental paintings, animations, and “Paintants” that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural form, and three dimensionally painted surfaces. On September 10, 2011 Marcaccio received the "

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Award for Sculpture 2011" from the Mayor of

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References

* Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. http://www.artnexus.com/Notice_View.aspx?DocumentID=22521 * Radical Shift: Political and Social Upheaval in Argentinean Art since the 1960s https://web.archive.org/web/20110327235036/http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/9294 * “Fabian Marcaccio” Interview by Shirley Kaneda BOMB 41/Fall 1992, ART http://bombsite.com/issues/41/articles/1573

External links

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