Marco Paulo Rolla, Broken Extase, 2010; Sensible Smash, 2013; Sin Tomography, 2016

Sensible Smash shows a part of the performance Banquet from 2003-2004. For Banquet, a banquet was set up on a big table. Here, a performance took place with several naked actors, food, and live chickens. There were more than two hundred people present, but the table was only set up for thirty people and only those thirty guests got to eat. The social hierarchy that was created in this way is a reflection of our society.

Marco Paulo Rolla makes paintings, drawings, objects, installations, and performances in which desire is inextricably linked to death. Just as the opposites of pain and pleasure and good and evil belong together. With his work he connects Dutch colonial history with the still lifes of Dutch painting. The luxury items that often form part of his visual language function as a critique of capitalism.

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