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Diego Marcon

DIEGO MARCON

ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements) Sadie Coles HQ 18 January–7 March 2025 Kingly Street, London
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In January 2025, coinciding with Condo London, Diego Marcon will be playing his 2016 sound piece ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements) in The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ. ToonsTunes is a musical composition that consists of four distinct movements put together by editing and looping lo-fi audios taken from Donald Duck cartoons. The different compositions alternate fast and slow rhythms and rueful sounds with more excited ones, from which the calls and quacks of the character’s voice emerge.

About the Artist

Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy) primarily focuses on moving image. His practice centres on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works – spanning film, video and installation – often utilise a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment; and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitute a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.

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Founded in London in 1997 by Sadie Coles, Sadie Coles HQ is a contemporary art gallery that presents the work of over fifty established and emerging international artists.

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Sadie Coles HQ contemporary art gallery in Kingly Street London United Kingdom
Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street, London, United Kingdom
+44 207 493 8611
http://www.sadiecoles.com

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Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm
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