Galleria Macca

Galleria Macca is pleased to present "Architecture of Defeat", a solo project by Mexican New York-based artist Adrián S. Bará, curated by Maria Politano. Bará brings together a selection of works that engage with concepts of structure, alienation, consumption, and architecture as a metaphor for the current state of the world. The use of appropriated images from newspapers and magazines is recurrent in Bará’s practice, evoking a subtle awareness of how media shapes our understanding of what we call reality. Organic matter, such as real oranges, underscores the passage of time and our own vulnerability within a complex society, one that seems increasingly unable to understand our position in history and in the world at large. Gypsum panels, repurposed everyday debris, and industrial materials function as storytellers in Bará’s work, allowing him to "examine the emotional dimensions of accelerated change and its effects on the shifting inner and outer landscapes we inhabit".

Galleria Macca opened its doors on June 2015. Its Founder, an independent curator and producer for more than a decade, worked closely with leading Latin American Art Galleries and collaborated with some of Latin American most promising emerging artists. Thus the need to open Macca (it means "crazy" in Sardinian) in her hometown, Cagliari - Sardinia, to become the first Italian contemporary art gallery entirely dedicated to show-case the work of emerging and mid-career Latin American artists, as well as collaborating with some of the most influential local contemporary artists and estates. Its focus on site-specific projects that address current political and conceptual issues provides an intellectual platform of dissent and artistic investigation.

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