Here and where

Working with textile fragments from haute-couture fashion industry, Romanian artist Marion Baruch developes an intense work on relational and public art, at the Otto Zoo gallery.

Otto Zoo presents “Mancanza / Here and where”, Marion Baruch’s new practice, curated by Francesca Pasini. In her long artistic carreer Marion Baruch – born 1929 in Timisoara– intensely dedicated her work to relational and public art, with the pseudonym Name Diffusion. From 2012 she works with the remains of textile computer machineries used in haute-couture and prêt-à-porter fashion production.

In the fabric fragments, transparent or compact, empty spaces and memory flashes move together with abstract figures, geometric forms, and graphic lines. Marion Baruch’s language is created by an indistinct accumulation, and she chooses the orientation which transforms the fabric fragment into a figure by carefully observing the remnants in her possession. Baruch’s marks and links to painting, sculpture, drawing and memory which emerge from a dialogue with her beloved artists: Fontana, Melotti, Beuys, Klee, Robert Morris and many others.