
Dani Marcel: Recent Plans & Proofs
The Residence Gallery presents Recent Plans & Proofs, an exhibition of three new paintings by Dani Marcel. Marcel is known for his durational performances, staged by changing his own daily life.
Ideas of improbably hard effort and bootstrapping, recurring themes for the artist, appear both in ‘Self-publish’ and ‘1-380’. While the latter is an enlarged version of Marcel’s notepad used to track his progress while taking all the buses in London during the 2023 performance ‘The World’, the prior is based on a theoretical essay written by the artist – only to be meticulously painted after it was rejected by a magazine- complete with self-celebratory fairy lights and a glass of champagne.
This interest in time and a process like approach can also be found in ‘Really understanding 2025’ a two-panel text painting. The exhibition’s January opening date will mean that the painting goes on display without the second panel, cutting short the sentence and repeating the open-endedness of an eponymous performance started by Marcel on New Years Eve, titled ‘Really understanding 2025’ in which he is actively attempting to understand this year.
