Leonardo Marz
Biography
Using a variety of resources and tools, such as video, plastic sheeting, popular music and kitsch DIY products, Leonardo Marz responds to the work of both peer artists and faceless companies. Each of Marzs individual projects rely on the act of consuming someone elses art to make a new product. His work rethinks how he, as an artist, and the public engage with the media, commercial products, art, the music industry and fame.
Marz explores the blurring between the producer and consumer by illustrating how we participate in these interchangeable roles. In a culture that places high value on streamlining, efficiency, and mass appeal, where do we locate the individual within our society? Is the individual the producer, the consumer or both? When does the producer disappear into our greater culture?
Much of my work is presented as an assembly of post-process relations. I am fascinated by the phenomenon of the object disappearing and becoming the support for further works/processes.
Leonardo Marz received an MFA in New Media Transart Institute/DUK University, Krems, Austria. He has shown at Chelsea Gallery Space, New York City; Museo de las Américas, Denver, Colorado; Yautepec, Mexico City; and Emergency Biennale, Chechnya, and more.
