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1) XYZ; 2) Empty Bottle

Jorge Luis Macchi, 2012

MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
© Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

Argentinian artist Jorge Luis Macchi’s work explores absence, which he feels is ‘more present than the presence itself’. In these works acquired by mima, Macchi's vision of absence is represented by stopped clock of video installation XYZ and the empty bottles of his watercolour diptych.

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Title of artwork, date

1) XYZ; 2) Empty Bottle, 2012

Date supported

2013

Medium and material

Various

Dimensions

Various

Grant

14928.359

Total cost

14928.3697

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