{"id":8398,"date":"2019-10-24T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:54:39","slug":"marco-maggi-at-josee-bienvenu-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/marco-maggi-at-josee-bienvenu-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Maggi Installation at Josee Bienvenu Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a good part of the summer for Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi to install his immersive installation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joseebienvenugallery.com\/exhibitions\/marco-maggi7\">Josee Bienvenu Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea, yet it\u2019s possible to visit the gallery and not even notice the artwork.\u00a0 Maggi employed his signature technique of cutting tiny geometric shapes and strips from adhesive paper and adhering them to the wall in his latest show, but he keeps the gallery lights off, forcing viewers to employ flashlights to hunt for the work.\u00a0 As the show\u2019s subtitle, \u2018From Obscurantism to Enlightenment\u2019 suggests, Maggi wants viewers to enjoy the process of looking, slowing down and letting enlightenment unfold.\u00a0 (On view through Nov 11<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8399\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/marco-maggi-at-josee-bienvenu-gallery-2\/marco_maggi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8399\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8399\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marco_maggi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marco_maggi.jpg 3015w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marco_maggi-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marco_maggi-342x400.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco Maggi, installation view of \u2018Initialism (From Obscurantism to Enlightenment)\u2019 at Josee Bienvenu Gallery, Oct, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a good part of the summer for Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi to install his immersive installation at Josee Bienvenu Gallery in Chelsea, yet it\u2019s possible to visit the gallery and not even notice the artwork.\u00a0 Maggi employed his signature technique of cutting tiny geometric shapes and strips from adhesive paper and adhering them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/marco-maggi-at-josee-bienvenu-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marco Maggi Installation at Josee Bienvenu Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[919,117,882,13,8608,38,1411,5297,5107],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-abstraction","tag-chelsea","tag-drawing","tag-gallery","tag-initialism","tag-installation","tag-josee-bienvenu","tag-marco-maggi","tag-wall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2bs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}