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The MACRO Contemporary Art Museum of Rome dedicates a space to the work of the conceptual artist Riccardo De Marchi to show his exhibition ´Riccardo De Marchi: Fori Romani´. The exhibition will be open until the 30th of October and it tries to highlight the work of this artist together with music and art to order the concepts of his works.
The exhibition, commissioned by Luca Massimo Barbero and Elena Forin, is part of the expository line of the museum, that tries to put contemporary art and, especially, conceptual art at the disposal of the lovers of art.
The exhibition ´Riccardo De Marchi: Fori Romani´ is an interesting piece that follows his line of work with a refined aesthetic very close to design. In it he makes a mixture of what´s ironic and transcendental, organized with texts, perforations and signs that articulate in a recreational narrative. Around this exhibition there are other works, like album covers made on the surface of the museum and that become the support of the perforations that he makes to give life to his ´martian´ writing.
Riccardo De Marchi, born in Udine, Italy, in 1964, is a painter that, since 1987, has carried out exhibitions in important museums in Europe and North America. In his conceptual works he goes into the deconstruction of the meanings on the representation of the subconscious, where the communication between the spectator and the artist is reduced to individual representations.
De Marchi takes Jacques Derrida´s deconstructionism to give life to his work. Deconstructionism is the thought that he critiques, analysing and revising its words and concepts. Derrida starts from the German term ´Destruktion´, that Martin Heidegger used in the book ´Being and Time´, and that he uses it following the concept of metaphysics and applying it to the field of linguistics.
In deconstructionism they examine the work, not only as an independent representation object, but as the result of a process that has a relation with other visual practices and multiple discourses, and so manages to expose all the hierarchies, inconsistencies and inequalities related with a whole system of beliefs.
And so deconstructionism leads to the changes in the classic conception of museums and the use of spaces, product of the use of new supports that trace a map of conceptual relations that configure the place or territory from which one observes the process of creation.
That´s how, today, artists occupy spaces that were meant for other activities to exhibit in museums or to transform the façades to integrate them in the exhibition. Also, there are urban interventions, where the museum stops having value as an art space containment for the artist.
For more information: http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/riccardo_de_marchi_fori_romani
Nancy Guzman
Seeing the work of De Marchi is an experience that invites us to get to know deconstructionism. So, if you were enjoying a few days in apartments in Rome come to the MACRO Museum and enjoy its contemporary art exhibitions.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
