06/05/2024
NOON CONSULTING IN VENICE WITH ERNESTO MARENCO
“Human and Space” Palazzo Pisani Revedin
VENICE BIENNALE 2024
🟥Did you know the
Mexican artist Ernesto Marenco?
(b. 1960 Mexico City) Son of exiled Nicaraguan poet and politician, Marenco was surrounded from childhood by artists, painters, writers and poets, that had been exiled to Mexico from the Spanish Civil War, and countries in Central and South America. Marenco is an artist, or visual poet, who has more than 35 years translating the language of poetry to everyday objects. His objects express a particular and committed manner and a great sense of humor. The artist has exhibited his work in international galleries and museums and produced more than 20 covers for books in Latin America, mainly poetry books, placing him as one of the leading representatives of contemporary Mexican art objects. Marenco currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.
⬛️About his Work:
TESTEMONY or the Irreverence of the Undecible’, Installation composed of 60 pieces of porcelain objects (in collaboration with the American artist Amanda Fulk.)
“His object-based work continues to mature to a higher level of simplicity and sophistication.”
To look at TESTEMONY is to accept truth in its simplest yet complicated form.
The real truth of the object that Ernesto Marenco has been consistenly investigating with his work has led to an interesting paradigm shift, the objectification of the male testicle. In this case, his very own.
Marenco looks back to history and looks ahead to the future while placing himself as the key master of both doors. It is exactly this type of questioning and mind shifting
Ernesto Marenco is capable of evoking with his work. His ability to dig into our very own vulnerabilities gives him center stage access to direct our attention to what matters most to us, ourselves.”