DÉCHIQUETÉ — SQUARCIATO
MARION BARUCH

Opening: 4 July 2025, 6.30 pm
Exhibition duration: 5 July - 9 August, 3 September - 27 September 2025
Opening hours: Wed-Sat, 10.30-17.00 hrs
 

Since 2012, Marion Baruch (b. 1929) has been producing post-minimalist works rich in poetic meaning that are made primarily from textile materials and production remnants from the textile industry. Baruch’s fabric configurations are formally dialectic, occupying a kind of dual status. They are object-trouvé, mere material, but also achieve—through how they are interpreted and presented, hung and tensioned—the status of a pictorial formation, characterized by strong contrasts and negative forms, asserting an autonomous presence with a graphic, quasi-gestural intensity. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, Baruch’s fabric formations always harbor a poetic-narrative dimension. The pictorial and spatial-aleatoric presence is thus matched by a visual-poetic one, without deemphasizing or overwriting the physical, kinesthetic, and tactile dimension of the cut remnants, the tension of what’s torn (squarciato).

Marion Baruch was born in 1929 in Timisoara, Romania, and today lives and works in Gallarate, Italy. After more than twenty years in Paris—where, since 1993, she had lived and worked under the name “Name Diffusion,” critically engaging the art system, the art market, and its rules and structures—Baruch returned to Italy, where she had studied and lived in the 1950s and 1960s. Since 2007, she has been working, once again under her real name, with fabric remnants from the textile industry, which have since formed the foundation of her poetic-spatial practice.