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Growing Square (Subtractive Color)
Marco Maggi2012
Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach, United States
Details
- Title: Growing Square (Subtractive Color)
- Creator: Marco Maggi
- Creator Lifespan: 1957
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Uruguay
- Date Created: 2012
- Title translation: Cuadrado en crecimiento (Síntesis sustractiva de color)
- Physical Dimensions: w25 x h25 x d4 in
- About the Work: Marco Maggi is best known for his use of common materials such as Plexiglas, Reynolds aluminum foil, Macintosh apples, diapositive slides, and paper or cardboard in standard formats. Maggi inscribes on these objects and materials micro-landscapes of saturation, with the intention of inviting people to stop and contemplate detail, as we are constantly flooded with information that we have ceased to understand. Growing Square (Subtractive Color), 2012, is a work comprised of ten columns by ten rows of stacks of 12 slides; each row has one stack less every time, therefore the first row has ten slides, the following nine, and so forth, until it ends with a row of a single stack, forming a total of 55 slides. This system of repetition and subtraction not only creates a visual relationship with architecture and geometric shapes—giving the illusion that the piece is “increasing” or “decreasing” in the upper-left angle of an incomplete square—but also plays with the idea or possibility of a system that is either growing or fading away, with either the invisible saturation or removal of the “missing” stacks of slides. Growing Square also references the subtractive color method utilized to produce Kodachrome slides.
- Type: Mixed Media-3D
- Rights: Gift of Sylvia Meyer, New York
- External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
- Medium: Cuts on fifty five 35mm color papers in 55 slide stacks
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