Leo Marz

Leo Marz presents his exhibition They Stare at You From Billions of Years Ago, featuring two new pieces in the sculptural patio of MARCO museum: a large format neon sculpture and a wall painting made in situ, that extensively analyze the culture of "virality" in social networks.

Marz's new project is based on the philosophical concept of hyperreality, proposed by Jean Baudrillard, and refers to the strategies of simulacrum in contemporary times, where reality is presented through false, edited or distorted images, blurring the border with fiction. Also, the artist addresses how different events can be simultaneous despite being located in different temporal moments, both aspects marked by the consumption of media information and social networks.

Marz "...brings with his work an indescifrable experience, in which his gaze generates a new spacial composition that proposes to approach in new ways the connections between the concepts of subject and object, as well as its relation with an urban scale. Now the museum -with the artist’s eyes - observes us."

— MARCO