The Georg-Kolbe Museum Hosts 2011 Bernhard Heiliger Award Winner Fabian Marcaccio Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:54 PM PDT Berlin, Germany - The Georg-Kolbe Museum is proud to present "Fabian Marcaccio. The Structural Canvas Paintant" in conjunction with the artist being awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture 2011. The exhibition, featuring new works in the artist's structural canvas 'paintant' series, will be on view at the museum from September 11th through November 20th. The reformulation of the concept of art in the 1960's led to great repercussions, especially in sculpture, which had extended its range into space with objects and installations. Fabián Marcaccio was born in Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina in 1963, where he studied philosophy at the university. At the age of 22 he moved to New York City, where he lives and works today. He has exhibited at numerous locations in the United States, Europe and South America. In Germany his works have previously been shown at the Kunstverein Stuttgart, Württemberg (2000), at the Kunstverein (2001) and by his participation in Documenta 11 (2002). The neologism "Paintant" is a conflation of the terms "painting" and "mutant" and has been used by Marcaccio since 1995 in both individual work and exhibition titles. It serves as an umbrella term for a variety of artistic practices, the nature of the panel painting dissolving the boundaries of both content and form. Fabian Marcaccio’s work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used printmaking transfer techniques to make paintings and became well know in the 1990s for his manipulations of the conventions of painting. More recently, he has relied upon digital and industrial techniques to infuse his painting process with spatial and temporal concerns. The results are environmental paintings, animations, and “Paintants” that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural form, and three dimensionally painted surfaces. The works in the exhibition reflect a range of both political and social issues in contemporary globalization, the financial crash, transsexuality, genetic engineering and terrorism. The Georg-Kolbe-Museum is located in the former studio-building of the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) in Berlin-Westend close to the Olympic Stadium. Created from the estate of Georg Kolbe, this was the first new museum to be created in West Berlin in 1950. An annex was added in 1996, in order to meet the increased need for professional storage and the continued growth of the exhibition operations. In 1998 a coffee shop  Café K  opened in the former home of Kolbe¹s daughter and family in the building next door. This also is where sculpting courses for children are offered on the first Saturday of each month, in cooperation with artists from the museum's exhibitions. For some time now, the presentation of the collection of central works of representational sculpture of the 20th century (Kolbe, Aristide Maillol, Gerhard Marcks, Ernst Barlach, Hermann Blumenthal, Richard Scheibe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Renée Sintenis and others) has been complemented with temporary exhibitions. Both classic Modernism and the subject of sculpture as such play important roles. In recent years, the Georg-Kolbe Museum increasingly opened up to contemporary art. The exhibitions here represent a dialog between tradition and the present, which is further intensified in the project room for contemporary sculpture, the "Kunstkammer im Georg-Kolbe-Museum", created in January of 2009. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de