Transient Structures - Mario Marazan
Rebus Works
301-2 Kinsey St
Please join us this Friday from 6 until 10 pm for the opening reception of
Transient Structures by Mario Marzan. Transient Structures, an exhibition
of drawings and installation work, will continue at Rebus Works until
November 24, and will include a lecture by Mario Marzan on November 17 at
4 pm. Our First Friday reception will feature food by Posh Nosh Catering.
Mario Marzan creates drawings and sculptures depicting an alternative
reality, invented and inspired by the cycles of deconstruction and
reconstruction produced by the hurricanes of his childhood in Puerto Rico.
Marzan’s drawings and sculptures respond to this changing landscape,
through a visual fiction that blurs distinctions between representation
and abstraction. Sequences are constructed that create a “world where
memories are topographically stored and distorted to their limits of
collapse.” His drawings are at once explosive with color and subtle with
fine lines, presenting a compelling struggle between chaos and control,
evoking landscapes of the mind, where forgotten and obscured memories
resurface.
Citing an interest in the “temporal construct of place” Marzan has
constructed miniature environments, influenced by a constructivist idea of
space and experience.” These structural sculptures exist to be
experienced through the viewer’s bodily senses, “including touching and
hearing to facilitate the experience of time.” Inside the structures are
small LCD screens depicting experiences: ocean waves, a child playing.
The sensory pleasures of these constructions ultimately respond to places
that struggle between order and disorder.
Transient Structures combines Marzan’s drawings with his installation of
structures, to create a dialogue that describes and responds to the idea
of landscape as a changing record of memory. Through his drawing and
sculptures, Marzan creates a narrative that exists in a landscape
oscillating between order and disorder. Mario Marzan is currently an
Assistant Professor in the art department at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his BFA from Bowling Green State
University and his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
