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Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies!
The Italian artist's first solo New York museum show presents three recent films alongside the newly commissioned "Krapfen" (2025), blending horror, comedy, and animation to explore desire, memory, and perception.
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A child dances with a pair of gloves, a scarf, trousers and a jumper that float and stand in for the family, while a song cheerfully repeats the name of an Austrian jam doughnut. That is Krapfen, the new four-minute loop in Marcon's first New York museum show.
You stand in one room where four films play at once on large screens side by side. In Ludwig, a boy sits alone in the dark, lit now and then by a candle or lightning. In Fritz, a boy hangs from a noose and can't die. The Parents' Room is an operetta sung by a father who has killed his family, and by his dead wife and children.
David Lê of The Arcades called The Parents' Room the best of the four and urged readers to go. The museum's Massimiliano Gioni warned it "can freak some people out." Entry is general admission: $28 for adults, free for 18 and under, pay what you wish Thursdays 7 to 9pm, booked online.
Look for
Krapfen
A child in a frenetic dance with four animated garments, gloves, a scarf, trousers and a jumper, to a song that keeps repeating the name of a jam doughnut.
The Parents' Room
It opens on a bird chirping at a window, then the father, in prosthetics that leave only eyes and mouth bare, sings of killing his family.
Ludwig
A young boy sits alone in darkness, visible only when a candle flickers or lightning flashes.
Fritz
A boy hangs from a noose, failing again and again to die, until his body suddenly reanimates.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You scare easily or are bringing kids: one film shows a boy on a noose, another a family murder.
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Image credits
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- Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies!© Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
- Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA—And the Infinite LineCourtesy of Hauser & Wirth
- Common SenseCourtesy of Brooklyn Museum
- Luminous ColorCourtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum
- New MuseumMusikAnimal, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0