Marco MaggiHigher Perplexity

Drawings and sculptures on offbeat surfaces—kitchen foil, Yupo paper, a sliced apple, a ping-pong ball—encoding circuits, maps and nervous systems.

Maggi’s eleventh solo show in New York continues his abstract vocabulary of linear pathways recalling circuit boards, aerial views, genetic diagrams and nervous systems, treating pure abstraction as a form of cultural criticism.

The works are made on unlikely supports: graphite pencil on the smooth side of aluminum foil, hand-drawn lines on Yupo paper, a McIntosh apple sliced along its axis, an altered ping-pong ball, and Dibond panels inset with tiny fragments of acid-free paper. An accompanying text by the artist frames the work around the idea of a chronic, even pleasurable, state of perplexity.

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