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Jorge Macchi (born 1963) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, Macchi has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas and Europe since the 1980s. Through residences, Macchi has lived in Paris, London, Rotterdam, and San Antonio, Texas.

Work and career
Macchi was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires. Initially intent on medical school, Macchi enrolled at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón (now the Universidad Nacional de las Artes) in 1983. In 1986, he began working with Grupo de la X, a collective he helped found with around fourteen other Buenos Aires-based artists. During this period, Macchi worked primarily in painting. He began working on three-dimensional projects in the early nineties after his travels through Europe, his work underpinned by an interest in interrelationships between objects.

Despite often working with readymades, Macchi has actively distanced himself from categorization as a conceptual artist. A number of Macchi's works emerge from formal studies or experiments in space, aleatory, and logic. For instance, Buenos Aires Tour (2003), for which he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, was developed by laying a pane of broken glass onto a map of Buenos Aires, which allowed Macchi to trace lines on the map and plot points along these routes. He then visited these points to collect found materials and take photographs which then became part of the work. This is not, however, to characterize Macchi's practice as purely random or chance-based; curator and critic Inés Katzenstein describes his work as "a rigorous and project-driven strain of the disconcerting...modest experiments in upsetting logic and meaning." Installations such as Fan (2013), a ceiling fan installed in the corner of a room which chips away at the walls as it turns, and Still Song (2005), in which a disco ball hangs in a room riddled with black holes, undermine the expected and the ordinary.

Macchi regularly collaborates with sound artist and composer Edgardo Rudnitzky. He has recently returned to painting after a number of years working across sculpture, installation, and video, which he attributes to a need to more physically engage his body in the artistic process.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 2018: Jorge Macchi, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
 * 2017: Threshold, Alexander and Bonin, New York
 * 2016: Perspectiva, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid
 * 2014: Prestidigitador, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City
 * 2013: Loop, Alexander and Bonin, New York
 * 2013: Container, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
 * 2011: Music Stands Still, S.M.A.K., Ghent
 * 2009: Piscina, Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Brumadinho
 * 2007: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
 * 2006: Still Song, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
 * 2005: La ascensión, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Argentine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Palagraziussi, Antico Oratorio San Filippo Neri, alla Fava
 * 2003: Buenos Aires Tour, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky and María Negroni, Galería Distrito4, Madrid
 * 1998: Música Incidental, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires
 * 1995: Jorge Macchi, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Buenos Aires
 * 1993: Jorge Macchi, Casal de Catalunya, Buenos Aires
 * 1989: Pinturas y retablos de fines del siglo XX, Alberto Elía Gallery, Buenos Aires

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2016: Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Met Breuer, New York
 * 2015: Dark Mirror. Art from Latin America since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
 * 2013: A Trip From Here to There, Museum of Modern Art, NY
 * 2012: 7th Liverpool Biennial
 * 2012: Extranjerías, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City
 * 2011: All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
 * 2010: Of Bridges and Borders, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
 * 2009: Private Universes: Media Works, Dallas Museum of Art
 * 2007: Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 * 2006: 27th São Paulo Biennale
 * 2006: Cruce de miradas, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
 * 2003: 8th Istanbul Biennial
 * 1996: Visions from the South, Fundación Antorchas and the Rockefeller Foundation
 * 1995: 70 – 80 – 90, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires
 * 1987: X Group, Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Argentina; Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires
 * 1986: Fortabat Biennale, Fundación Fortabat, Buenos Aires

Selected collections

 * Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp
 * Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá
 * Fundación Banco de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires
 * Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
 * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
 * S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent
 * Collection of the Province of Hainaut, Belgium
 * Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru
 * Tate Modern, London
 * Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
 * Fundación Arco, Madrid
 * El Museo del Barrio, New York
 * Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France
 * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina
 * Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain

Selected bibliography

 * Macchi, Jorge, and Agustín Pérez Rubio, eds. Perspectiva (with texts by Inés Katzenstein, Rodrigo Moura, Jorge Macchi, and Agustín Pérez Rubio), ex. cat. Buenos Aires: Museo de Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), 2016 ISBN 978-9871271665
 * Medina, Cuauhtémoc. Jorge Macchi: Prestidigitador, ex. cat. Mexico City: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), 2014 ISBN 978-6070250798
 * de Vajay, Sigismond and Thibaut Verhoeven, eds. Jorge Macchi: Music Stands Still, ex. cat. Ghent, Belgium: S.M.A.K., KBB and Toit du monde, 2011 ISBN 978-9075679380
 * Pérez Barreiro, Gabriel. Jorge Macchi, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ex. cat. Porto Alegre, Brazil: MERCOSUL Biennale, 2007