AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
On view until 04 October 2026
Making his Canadian debut at the AGO, Diego Marcon's cinematic vision draws on Hollywood musicals, horror films, melodrama, and slapstick, to present films both unsettling and tender. Incorporating CGI, prosthetics, and robotics, Marcon achieves an uncanny quality in his films: images that feel artificial, yet strangely alive. At the centre of this installation is Marcon's newest work, Krapfen (2025). Set in a bedroom, the film describes a child tormented by four characters — a pair of gloves, a foulard, a pair of trousers, and a pullover — who insist that the child should eat an apricot jam krapfen (or German doughnut). Part musical, part neurotic carousel, the objects hector the child as they swirl around, in a choreographed dance, set to music composed by Federico Chiari.
Diego Marcon is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Vega Foundation. The exhibition is curated by John Zeppetelli, Guest Curator, and Julia Paoli, Director and Curator, at The Vega Foundation, with Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator.
Diego Marcon’s Krapfen is co-commissioned and made possible by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, the Renaissance Society, and The Vega Foundation with additional support from Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.