OGR YOU 2019 closes the cycle of its conferences, on Tuesday 12 November, 6.30 pm, with A Lecture by Italian artist Diego Marcon.

He anticipates its contents as follows: "I will talk about my work, starting with the first documentary videos up to the most recent works of animation and fiction. Through the analysis of these latest films and videos and their modes of production, the lecture will focus on the process of destructuring the cinematographic language and some of its most popular codified genres, on which my current research is based”.

As Michele D’Aurizio wrote on Flash Art, "The animation techniques that Marcon uses are varied: from direct animation, where the drawing is done directly on the film (the five films composing the series Untitled [Head Falling], 2015, 10 '' each, loop), to the appropriation of existing animations (Untitled [All Pigs Must Die], 2015, 10 '', loop, a found fragment of Walt Disney’s cartoon Winnie the Pooh), to CGI (computer-generated imagery), that is, animations created by computer graphics software (some of the characters featuring in Monelle, 2017, 13'56 '', loop; the protagonist and the scene of Ludwig, 2018). Independently of the specific technique employed, the animation is not only responsible for the opening of Marcon's artistic production towards an imaginary unknown to him - the infantile one -, but implies a modus operandi that programmatically differs from the cinematographic tradition of the documentary, in which the artist has taken his first steps. Etymologically, "animate" means the act of infusing life (anima, the soul) into a form that is deprived of it."

Since January 2019, Diego Marcon is at work with the 15 participants of the OGR YOU group on a collective project, in the form of a "recital" (working title), which will be presented to the public on the occasion of THE BIG BREAK, the festival conceived and organized by OGR YOU (4-5 December).

 

Diego Marcon was born in 1985, in Busto Arsizio (VA), Italy. He lives and works in Milan. In 2018, he was the winner of the Henraux Foundation Sculpture Award and of the MAXXI Bulgari Prize. In 2017, he was the artist invited by AMACI (Associazione Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani) to the fifth edition of the project “Museo Chiama Artista”. His works have been presented by international institutions such as: Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore / LASALLE, Fondazione Prada (Milan), La Triennale di Milano (Milan), Museo MAXXI (Rome), PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan), Matadero (Madrid), OCAT (Shanghai), Artspace (Auckland, NZ), Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’Île de Vassivière (Île de Vassivière, FR), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris), De Vleeshal (Middelburg, NL), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Guarene d’Alba, IT), and Museion (Bolzano). His films have been screened in film festivals like IFFR (Rotterdam), Cinéma du Réel (Paris), Courtisane (Gent), IKFF (Hamburg), BISFF (Beijing), BFI (London) e doclisboa (Lisbon).

 

All OGR YOU events, curated by Barbara Casavecchia in collaboration with Sergey Kantsedal, are free and open to the public upon reservation.