Montevideo, Uruguay, 1957 ¿[...] Nowadays, slow art becomes necessary in order for us to assume our coniditon of newly illiterates [...] Exquisiteness became a subversive activity and the act of paying attention, something truly disruptive [...]¿ Marco Maggi in Miopía Global, 2001. Master in Fine Arts at the University of the State of New York, Marco Maggi lives and works in New Paltz (NY). Creator of original poetics, the artist confirms as one of the most interesting names in contemporary art, exceeding questions that have already been posed by Modern Art, particularly in his constructive and abstract tendencies. Among the numerous collective exhibits in which he participated, some of the most outstanding are: Microwave, One, in 123 Watts Gallery (NY, 1999), Summer Voices, in Miller & Block Gallery (Boston, 1999), New Espace / New York, in Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, 1999), Mapping, Territory, Connections (Paris, 2000), From the inside out ¿ landscapes reconsidered, Institute of Contemporary Art (San José, California, 2000), Biennale of Mercosur (Puerto Alegre, Brazil, 2001), The Armory Show, Holly Solomon Gallery (NY, 2001), By Hand: Pattern, Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Art at the State of California University (Long Beach, 2001), Yesteryears, Hales Gallery (London, 2002), XXV Biennale of Sao Pablo (Sao Pablo, Brazil, 2002) and The Microwave, Cristeneros / Bienvenu Gallery (NY, 2002). Among the individual exhibits of the artist, are: Techtonic, in 123 Watts Gallery (NY, 1998), From Freezer to Microwave, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, 1999), micro, macro, Arco, at the Project Room of Arco¿00 (Madrid, 2000), Global Myopia, at the Kemper Museum (Kansas City, 2001), Paper Line, Paper Line, Sala Uno (Roma, 2002) and marco maggi, at Dan Galería (Sao Pablo, 2002). Using precise cutouts over paper, Marco Maggi is able to create a particular universe of fantastic constructions, that go back and forth between the precocity of reality and the solidity of the concept that hold together his artworks. Roads, bridges, textures, maps¿ Traveling through territories that have been explored by odd artists like Lúcio Fontana and Kandinsky, Maggi takes us to a world of extraordinary subtlety and beauty, using a series of small works that use agility to communicate with each other. It is in this way that the artist works with concepts such as the exile and displacement, construction and utopia, gesture and rationality, even incorporating, specially in his work Manzanas (Apples), ideas that are relative to the scars and marks left behind by the passing of time. Pointing even to the deconstruction of technological apparatus, the drawings and relieves over aluminum of Marco Maggie, reminiscent to the ¿borgean¿ labyrinths as to the prisons of the Piranesi, they reveal to us a kind of geographic metaphysic and irregularity, as though if the lines were to sprout organically, like lichens, on the superficies of the plane. It is in this way that Marco Maggi articulates logic and irrationality in his poetry, creating with his singular language a habitat of extreme and rare beauty.