Marco Maggi was born in Uruguay in 1957, he lives and works between New York and Uruguay.
In the world in which everything goes faster and in a disorganized manner, the artist creates dysfunctional information that helps people to stop and think. His artworks present an in nity of information that are not easy to classify and dif cult to understand at rst sight. The artworks are composed of accumulated tiny cut outs pieces of paper of geometric shapes. Those forms are attached on neutral background creating a rhythm of subtle light and shadow. Paper it is the holder of all printed information: from of ce paper to newspaper or even letters. It is this primary use of paper that attracted Maggi to work with this material: in this logic he dissects and reorganizes it in order to propose the public a re ection on our society.

Maggi represented Urugay at the 2015 Venice Biennal and we showed his work in shows such as; Works from the Daros Latin America Collection (Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain, 2010); and In transition (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, 2010). He also featured in the 25th Biennial de São Paulo, Brazil (2002); the 8th Havana Biennial in Cuba (2003); the 29th Pontevedra Biennial, in Spain (2006); the 17th Guatemala Biennial (2010); and the Cuenca Biennial, in Ecuador (2011). Recent solo shows: Color Files (MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA, 2013); Lentissimo (Vassar College Museum, Nova York, USA, 2013); Desinformação funcional – desenhos em português (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012), etc.

His works are included in the collections of the MoMA, New York, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; and Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland