JORGE MACCHI (b. 1963, Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires.

EDGARDO RUDNITZKY (b. 1956, Argentina) lives and works in Berlin.

Macchi works with everyday, ready-made and ephemeral objects in a variety of media including installations, video, painting, collage, and photography. His subjects range from random acts of violence, to unrequited love, to the impossibility of conclusion, and the interplay between presence and absence. The presence of the ready-made, primarily in the form of newspaper clippings, city maps, and music sheets that are carefully altered, censored, and decomposed, represents a desire to reclaim the objects’ materiality.  Since 1998, he has collaborated frequently with the composer and sound artist Edgardo Rudnitzky, an Argentinean musician and composer living in Berlin, producing works that range from simple sound works, to complex installations involving light, glass and video components.

Macchi has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2007); Kunshalle Wien, Vienna (2007); the Tate Modern, London (2005); the São Paolo Biennial (2006/2004); and the Venice Biennale (2005). His most recent exhibitions include a solo show, The Anatomy of Melancholy, at The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, that will continue to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Among Rudnitzky’s commissions and participations are the Musee du Louvre, Paris (2004), Siemmens Festival, Stuttgart (2004), Istanbul Biennial of Arts, Istanbul (2003), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels 2002 y 2003), Festival de otoño (Madrid 1999), Festival d`Avignon (Avignon 1999), Theater der Welt (Berlin 1999 and Koln 2002) among other venues.

Macchi is represented by Galeria Ruth Benzacar in Buenos Aires, Galería Luisa Strina in Sao Paulo, Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich and Gallería Continua in San Gimigniano, Italy.

www.jorgemacchi.com
www.ruthbenzacar.com
www.galleriacontinua.com