"For me, the drawing is a gymnastics. When I get to work, I put the drawing in the wall and beginning to imagine things… It works as a step, as a door towards other things. It is a daily activity, so much for outline some installation or painting, as to simply the format works I draw. It is the more immediate way of making concrete an image ".
"The drawing has a very primitive character: that of the white sheet. If there appears an image that needs movement or sound, then the format that I choose is the video. Or if besides the paper, I see that it has to be in the space, then I think about an installation. But in some cases, if it satisfies all the needs that this image has, then I keep the drawing ".
"I wanted to do a book that was in the limit between record and object. Then, it came the idea of doing a Block where the drawings are reproduced on every page as if they had done them directly on the white sheet. They do not have any annotation: neither title, nor year, nor nothing. Block is not a record of works but a record of images".
"I believe that Block is an artist's book because the object is the important thing. It is a Block of drawings. And it reflects something that it has to see very much with the drawing: the question of the immediacy ".
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Jorge Macchi presents Block, a book of artist that brings together drawings made between 996 and 2008, in a sort of record of images that spreads in this object with Block's format of white sheets that intensifies the idea that the drawings realized directly on it. Cleared of any track of context, landscape, background, reference to the technique, year of accomplishment, measures or collection, the drawings centre on the figures and on the represented objects.
As Giorgio Guglielmino indicates in the text that comes with the book "… the background simply does not exist. The objects (real protagonists of Macchi's drawings) and the figures (as support of the objects) are suspended always in the middle of the white sheet as if they were thoughts … ".
Macchi begins from daily objects and they are changed by their function and context, or establish associations with other objects that generate a different way of perceiving the reality. For him, to draw is a daily task and to be able to summarize this production, without reference of any type, reinforces the relevancy that possesses the drawing inside his work already it is like a preparatory sketch for a painting, an installation, a video, or in an autonomous way.
In this book of artist, Macchi plays with the object and its content, and with the format of the real object - the Block - and its functionality: to be a support of images and of the represented. The book is a frequent format in the production of the artist of diverse ways. “The ascensión, Ten Drops and Buenos Aires Tour” are some examples.
Macchi proposes to dismember the book, to extract the sheets of Block and them to spread in the space of Para Library. To disarm the book, to break the established order, he allows to show the images in simultaneously, leaving the spectator the possibility of establishing different relations among them. Hereby, the intervention will allow to raise, according to the artisa, a "vision branched out of the book".
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"The colors are vivacious, generally pure and not mixed, there are no blots or marks of brushstrokes. The use of the color and the simplicity of the drawing derive also from the need to shape the images of a clear, concise and fast way. Everything is clear(bright) and this brightness – that fits to the brilliancy of thought of the artist – contribuyes to the apparent naturalness and realism of objects and impossible situations ".