{"id":4181,"date":"2026-06-04T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agopressroom.ca\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:41","slug":"studio-54-night-magic-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agopressroom.ca\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Making his Canadian debut at the AGO, Diego Marcon’s cinematic vision draws on Hollywood musicals, horror films, melodrama, and slapstick, to present films both unsettling and tender. Incorporating CGI, prosthetics, and robotics, Marcon achieves an uncanny quality in his films: images that feel artificial, yet strangely alive. At the centre of this installation is Marcon’s newest work, Krapfen <\/em>(2025). Set in a bedroom, the film describes a child tormented by four characters \u2014 a pair of gloves, a foulard, a pair of trousers, and a pullover \u2014 who insist that the child should eat an apricot jam krapfen (or German doughnut). Part musical, part neurotic carousel, the objects hector the child as they swirl around, in a choreographed dance, set to music composed by Federico Chiari. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diego Marcon <\/em>is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Vega Foundation. The exhibition is curated by John Zeppetelli, Guest Curator, and Julia Paoli, Director and Curator, at The Vega Foundation, with Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diego Marcon\u2019s\u00a0Krapfen<\/em>\u00a0is co-commissioned and made possible by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, and The Vega Foundation with additional support from Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin\/Cologne\/New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press Release - Italian artist Diego Marcon to make his Canadian debut at the AGO with exhibition of four films<\/a><\/h3>\n
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