Diego Marcon

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This publication brings together a wide range of elements that define Diego Marcon’s practice. It links four films, including Krapfen, which was co-commissioned by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, and The Vega Foundation, and premiered at the Renaissance Society, with a series of visual documents from their production: props, costumes, set fragments, objects used in filming, as well as preparatory drawings, working images, models, and technical plans. These elements, usually relegated to behind the scenes, appear here as works in their own right, revealing the almost obsessive precision with which Marcon constructs his worlds. The book thus offers a broader interpretation of his work, where cinema, sculpture, installation, and scenography are inseparable.

The book functions simultaneously as an archive, a working tool, and a standalone object, allowing readers to delve into the internal logic of Diego Marcon’s practice and the concrete materiality of his films.

Diego Marcon’s practice primarily focuses on moving image, centered on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works – spanning film, video and installation – often utilize a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment; and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitute a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance. This book is an artist book as well as a monographic retrospective book mainly made up of images, drawings, and other behind the scenes material marking 20 years of Marcon's film and animation practice.

Related exhibition: Diego Marcon, Krapfen, 2025

Hardcover

12 x 8.8 inches

424 pages

ISBN 978-0941548-94-6

Diego Marcon

THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY