We are condemned to know more and understand less.

Uruguayan, Marco Maggi makes dizzyingly-complex draw-
ings on aluminum foil, plexi-glass, apples, stacks of photo-
copy paper, steel rulers and other unlikely materials. His
calligraphic vocabulary of markings references computer
circuitry, topographical maps, and pre-Colombian
languages. The works are placed in the in-between spaces
of the art venue -- behind columns, on the edges of walls,
in corners, on the floor.

This work is about, in part, information: our (in)capacity to
comprehend the quantity of it, and the impossibility of
understanding complex technical and scientific knowledge
through translations into everyday language. The content
and the carrier of the message are incompatible.

Maggi's encryptions are incomprehensible information de-
livered through disfunctional media. Graphite drawings on
black surfaces are invisible except at oblique angles.
Messages carved on apples will be eaten or decay. Intri-
cate and minute lines packed in tiny spaces are illegible.
Texts become textures. Language becomes more and
more inefficient for expression of ideas.

We live in the paleolithic age of technology.