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Mirco Marchelli

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Mirco Marchelli was born in Novi Ligure in 1963 and lives and works in Ovada, in the province of Alessandria.

A multifaceted artist, Marchelli began working in the visual arts in the mid-nineties, maintaining continuity with his musical works.

The keys to interpretation of his work are memory and the fascination of everyday objects such as flagpoles, stools, little items of furniture, pieces of wood and fabric, books, accounting ledgers, registers, boxes and photographs, covering them all with a layer of wax that transfigures them and makes them timeless. Marchelli restores life and meaning to these materials, exploiting their resonances and the stories they express to tell something new; he does not simply evoke memories, but arouses vague suggestions inspiring a yearning for the past.

The fact that the artist is also a composer (he played trumpet in Paolo Conte’s band for many years), or rather, the composer is also an artist, is no matter of chance or accident of circumstance, but the key to the very unusual world he has constructed over all these years.

To borrow from the language of music criticism, we might say that the artist proceeds in terms of plastic modulating progressions, with ornamentation. He sees no break between music and painting: he chooses “ingredients” of highly diverse materials, appearance and origin, blending and working them all with very free methods and imaginative creativity, even while applying a rigorous method, like a composer working in sonata form. Thus he brings new meaning and flavour to these “old things” he has recycled, exploiting their “resonances”, the stories they have to tell. Since 2017 Marchelli has been experimenting with ceramic, a new material in his artistic career, featured in a new cycle of works.

Solo exhibitions

2024

An Echo of Flowers, Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, Belgium 

 

2023

Un’eco di fiori, Marcorossi artecontemporanea | Progetto Roma, Rome, Italy

Buoni offici, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy 

Lieti Motivi, Museo Archeologico, Acqui Terme, Italy

Voci in capitolo, Fondazione Biscozzi Rimbaud, Lecce, Italy

Motivi di gioia, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain

 

2022

Tante belle cose, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Pietrasanta, Turin and Verona, Italy

Ariette semplici, Galerie Tourette, Paris, France

 

2021

Riguardo ad un frastuono rimbombante, Museo dei Lumi, Sinagoga, Casale Monferrato, Italy

Opera giocosa, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain

 

2020

Nuove consonanze, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

 

2018

A capo. Ceramiche Albisola, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Pietrasanta and Verona, Italy

 

2017

Giocattoli, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

 

2016

A due voci, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy

A due voci, La Cappuccina, Borgomanero, Italy

Canzoni in levare, Museo Ettore Guatelli, Ozzano Taro, Collecchio, Italy

 

2015

Mirco Marchelli, Alzueta Gallery, Palau de Casavells, Girona, Spain

 

2014

A due voci, Eventinove artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy

A due voci, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Verona, Italy

Via Crucis, Fondazione Lercaro, Bologna, Italy

 

2013Scena muta per nuvole basse, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

L’ombelico del mondo, Marina di Scarlino, Italy

Ballabili miniati, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

 

2012

InCauti Suoni, Spazio Perlartecontemporanea, Lugano, Switzerland

Mezza bellezza, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milano e Pietrasanta, Italy

Cosa gradita, Morotti arte contemporanea, Daverio, Varese, Italy

 

2011

Belle statuine, Eventinove artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy

Stato, Participio Passato, Accademia Filarmonica, Casale Monferrato, Italy

Meno Mare, Galleria Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

In che stato, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy

Al mare farà brutto, Eventinove artecontemporanea, Borgomanero, Italy

 

2010

Parole povere, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Monza, Italy

Piano pianissimo, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Verona, Italy

 

2009

Aristocratica, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Aristocratica, GlobArt Gallery, Acqui Terme, Italy

Otium, Rosso 20sette artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy

 

2008

Ma c’è un Ma, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy

Amata o tic tac, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

Mirco Marchelli, Alzueta Gallery, Palau de Casavells, Girona, Spain

 

2007

Ma c’è un Ma, Eventinove artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy

Trombe clarini e genis, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy

Bella cera, Galleria Traghetto, Rome, Italy

 

2006

Via Crucis, Ex Chiesa della Beata Vergine delle Grazie, Villafranca Piemonte, Italy

 

2005

Mirco Marchelli, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Cime, segni e specchi d’acqua, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

 

2004

Quindici diciotto, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy

 

2003

Acqua calda acqua fredda, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

 

2002

Via Crucis, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

 

2001

C’era una volta il re, Galerie Bäumler, Regensburg, Germany

 

2000

Orizzontale quasi verticale, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

 

1999

Asino chi legge, Todi Arte Festival, Todi, Italy

Cristoforo prima di partire, Galleria Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

1998

Mirco Marchelli, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, Germany

Pause popolari, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

 

1997

La casa di Mirco, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

 

1996

Mirco Marchelli, Galleria Cesarea, Genoa, Italy

 

1995

Galleria Triangolo Nero, Alessandria, Italy

 

1994

Galleria Corte Zerbo, Gavi, Italy

Group exhibitions

2023

1950-2000. Espressioni d’Arte nel Basso Piemonte, Castello di Monastero Bormida, Monastero Bormida, Italy

 

2022

Learn But The Letters Forme(d) By Heart, Then Soon You’ll Gain This Noble Art, Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

Summer 2022, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

Álbum de Família, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain

 

2021

The Sun Also Rises, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2018

FutuRuins, in collaboration with The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

 

2017

Eterne Stagioni, Palazzo Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy

 

2016

La Leggerezza della Scultura, XI Edition, Parco dell’Arte, Cerrina Monferrato, Italy

Miserere, Arca – ex chiesa di San Marco; Confraternita di San Vittore; Studiodieci, Vercelli, Italy

Colmare il vuoto. Marco La Rosa in dialogo con le opere della Collezione Paolo VI, Centro  Studi Paolo VI, Concesio, Brescia, Italy

 

2015

Mappemondi, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Verona, Italy

 

2014

Infinito Presente. Elogio della relazione, Museo Diocesano, Trento, Italy

Novanta artisti per una bandiera, Palazzo Arsenale, Turin, Italy

L’Orlando furioso: incantamenti, passioni e follie. L’arte contemporanea legge l’Ariosto, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

2013

Borderline. Tra spirito e materia, Centro Culturale Santa Maria della Pietà, Cremona, Italy

Incontri…Contemporary Italian Art, The Schaufler Foundation, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany

Rinascere, Museo del territorio, Biella, Italy

Novanta artisti per una bandiera, Sala del Vittoriano, Rome; Accademia Militare, Modena; Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

2012

Costellazione, Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, Italy

 

2011

L’arte non è cosa nostra, 54th Venice Biennale, The Italian Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Alla luce della Croce. Arte antica e contemporanea a confronto, Fondazione Lercaro, Bologna, Italy

A due a due, Museo dei Campionissimi, Novi Ligure, Italy

AAM, Spazio Eventiquattro – Gruppo 24 Ore, Milan, Italy

 

2010

Clicking on the Future, Fondazione Achille Marazza, Borgomanero, Italy

Impronte, Galleria Bonioni Arte, Reggio Emilia, Italy

La Leggerezza della Scultura, Parco dell’Arte, Cerrina Monferrato, Italy

Nel segno della croce, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

Vertigini, Studio Vigato, Alessandria, Italy

Contemporaneamente, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy

 

2009

Vegetando, Convento di Santa Caterina, Finalborgo, Italy

L’oro nero, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy

Favole d’artisti di ieri e di oggi, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

Ad Librandum, Various venues, Vicenza, Italy

8 artisti 4 mura, Studio di Architettura Gatti, Alessandria, Italy

Imago, Eventinove artecontemporanea, Borgomanero, Italy

 

2008

  1. Cento anni di creatività in Piemonte, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy

Blu, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy

Collezione 20×20, GlobArt gallery, Acqui Terme, Italy

Sconfinamenti, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

 

2006

Sentire con gli occhi, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy

 

2005

Je ne regrette rien, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

Galleria Art Forum, Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland

Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy

 

2004

Biennale d’Arte Sacra, Museo Stauros, Isola del Gran Sasso d’Italia, Teramo, Italy

 

2002

Il respiro nascosto delle cose, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

 

2001

Storie storte e vite parallele, Galleria di Castelbianco, Savona, Italy

 

2000

Carte blanche à Helene de Franchis, Galerie Lucien Durand Le Gaillard, Paris, France

 

1999

Morbida quiete e la notte, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

 

1997

10 stanze per 10 artisti, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

Works