Marcello Mercado
pencil on paper
60cm x 35cm
2022

Marcello Mercado
Untitled
collage on canvas
30cm x 24cm
2022
MUBA Museum
Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina

Marcello Mercado
Untitled
acrylic and oil on hanging canvas
200cm x 500cm
2022

10.06.2022 – 26.08. 2022
Lo próximo y lo extraño
Curator: Celeste Massin
21.07.2022
Antología de Marcello Mercado 1992 – 2022
Selection of 22 works by the artist.
Look closely, very closely, in macro mode and that what is known, what is close, what is next takes on a strange dimension. Reality as it is presented to us becomes inadequate, impertinent. Suddenly arrogant. Sometimes knowing what each element of our environment is made up of, in its final parts, in its DNA composition, inverts the formula. And from so close everything becomes distant. There is a play with materiality in its pure form and in the process of transformation. Not only is the result, but also the procedure because it allows the decomposition to be graphed. No matter the language, nor the practice, nor the support, again and again like the ouroboros that chases its tail, it decomposes to build, it builds to decompose.

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Técnica mixta sobre papel
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico y óleo sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico y óleo sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Acrílico y óleo sobre tela
2020

Marcello Mercado
Objeto escultorico
2020

Marcello Mercado
Objetos escultoricos y ADN
2020

Marcello Mercado
Objetos escultoricos
2020

Marcello Mercado
Objetos escultoricos
2020

Marcello Mercado
Collage
2020

10.06.2022 -10.09.2022
REVIRAVOLTA
Corpo e performance no Acervo Videobrasil
Curator: Solange Farkas
Galeria Homero Massena
Rua Pedro Palácios, 99
Centro de Vitória – ES- Brasil
Artists: Melati Suryodarmo, Marcello Mercado, Coco Fusco, Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Luiz de Abreu, Otávio Donasci, Lenora de Barros e Walter Silveira, Steina Vasulka e Stephen Vitiello, Michael Smith, Waly Salomão e Carlos Nader, Eder Santos, Marco Paulo Rolla, Alexandre da Cunha, Chelpa Ferro, Ayrson Heráclito, Felipe Bittencourt, Aya Eliav e Ofir Feldman e Paula Garcia.

10.06.2022 – 26.08. 2022
MARCELLO MERCADO
Lo próximo y lo extraño / Catalogue (pdf)
Curator: Celeste Massin
MUBA – Museo de Bellas Artes René Brusau
Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
10.06 – 26.08. 2022
21.07.2022
Antología de Marcello Mercado 1992 – 2022
Selection of 22 works by the artist.
Continuous projection of performative work and video art
Thursday, July 21, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Auditorium, 1st. Flat
Casa de las Culturas
Look closely, very closely, in macro mode and that what is known, what is close, what is next takes on a strange dimension. Reality as it is presented to us becomes inadequate, impertinent. Suddenly arrogant. Sometimes knowing what each element of our environment is made up of, in its final parts, in its DNA composition, inverts the formula. And from so close everything becomes distant. There is a play with materiality in its pure form and in the process of transformation. Not only is the result, but also the procedure because it allows the decomposition to be graphed. No matter the language, nor the practice, nor the support, again and again like the ouroboros that chases its tail, it decomposes to build, it builds to decompose.

Arte de acción 1960-1990, 2022
Arte de acción 1960-1990 fue una exposición curada por Rodrigo Alonso, que tuvo lugar en el año 1990 en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Fue la primera retrospectiva sobre arte de acción y performance art argentina. La exhibición recorrió la historia del arte de acción (performances, happenings, intervenciones urbanas, etc.) en Argentina desde sus orígenes hasta ese momento a través de imágenes, objetos y documentos. Desde los tajos y agujeros de Lucio Fontana hasta un grupo de piezas creadas y/o recreadas especialmente para la ocasión, la muestra recorrió los momentos claves del arte de acción en las artes visuales argentinas.
Marie Louise Alemann
Ar Detroy
Arte Destructivo
Batato Barea
Luis Fernando Benedit
Remo Bianchedi
Jorge Bonino
Oscar Bony
Rodolfo Bulacio
Anahí Cáceres
Delia Cancela
Eduardo Costa
Nicola Costantino
Jaime Davidovich
Marina De Caro
Jorge De La Vega
Raúl Escari
León Ferrari
Lucio Fontana
Fernando García Delgado
Nicolás García Uriburu
Edgardo Giménez
Carlos Ginzburg
Alberto Greco
Víctor Grippo
Grupo Capataco
Grupo Costuras Urbanas
Grupo Escombros
Alberto Heredia
Narcisa Hirsch
Roberto Jacoby
Rodolfo Juárez
La Negra
La Organización Negra
David Lamelas
Julio Le Parc
Sebastián Linero
Lea Lublin
Jorge Luján Gutiérrez
Leopoldo Maler
Liliana Maresca
Vicente Marotta
Graciela Martínez
Oscar Masotta
Walter Mejia
Marcello Mercado
Pablo Mesejean
Marta Minujín
Margarita Paksa
Juan Paparella
Ariadna Pastorini
Hilda Paz
Luis Pazos
Federico Peralta Ramos
Alfredo Portillos
Alfredo Prior
Héctor Puppo
Dalila Puzzovio
Juan Carlos Romero
Eduardo Ruano
Rubén Santantonin
Juan Stoppani
Pablo Suárez
Tucumán Arde
Edgardo Vigo
Teresa Volco
Luis Wells
Horacio Zabala

Marcello Mercado
BL
acrylic and paper collage on canvas
30cm x 24cm
2022