A contemplative, TALK-FREE, INFLUENCER-FREE, and AI-FREE visit to Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy, an exhibition of four fancifully unsettling cinematic installations by Italian artist Diego Marcon, making his Canadian solo exhibition debut. This exhibition runs until October 4, 2026 at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in downtown Toronto, Canada. This visit was recorded on Friday, June 10, 2026.
To view these works in the best possible quality, visit the AGO in person and preferably with an annual pass, which is one of the best deals in Toronto at only $40 per year! If you're unable to visit, hopefully this video will provide some creative inspiration despite my recording skills!
WARNING: as noted in the video, the video installation 'The Parents' Room' references homicide and suicide.
From the website: https://ago.ca/exhibitions/paul-mccartney-photographs-1963-64-eyes-storm
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION
"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."
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