Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies!

In his meticulously staged films and animations, Diego Marcon (b. 1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy; lives and works in Lombardy, Italy) crafts deeply ambiguous and morally bewildering stories that unearth the conditions under which we as humans perceive our desires, our memories, and ourselves.

Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies—Marcon’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City—will bring together three of the artist’s recent films alongside the newly commissioned work Krapfen (2025), produced by the New Museum in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, the Renaissance Society, and the Vega Foundation.

Marcon’s incisive work in moving image, sound, and film installation coopts familiar genres like horror movies, slapstick comedy, and cartoons to underscore and subvert cinematic archetypes and mechanical forms. While informed by the fantastical visions and narrative structures of fables, replete with families and children, his artworks also meditate on existential melancholy and frequently manifest themselves in disquieting events. Dissolving the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, Marcon’s films stir our deep-rooted dreams and nightmares while awakening our childhood memories, both real and imagined, of tragedies, myths, and folktales.

Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Madeline Weisburg, Senior Assistant Curator.