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Trace, Burn, Archive, 2005 – 2008
Marcello Mercado Trace, Burn, Archive (2005–2008) Performances Series . In Trace, Burn, Archive, Marcello Mercado conducts a five-part performance series in Denmark and Germany, using his own DNA as both material and message. Between 2005 and 2008, each action explores a different relationship to the body’s trace – its preservation, dispersal, destruction, and…
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A DNA Artifact , 2007
A DNA Artifact Running time: 5 days Performance, 2007 . In 2007, the artist carried out a three-part performative action across distinct European geographies—Munich, Extremadura, and Niederzissen—combining field observation, basic biotechnology, and cultural reflection. Act I began at the Ostfriedhof cemetery in Munich, at the grave of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A…
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To whom belongs the Time?
Marcello Mercado To whom belongs the Time? stereo, black/white Running time: 1h 03 minutes, 2020 This videoinstallation explores the notion of time as a resource—one that is consumed not only by subjects but by the very medium itself. The video loop unfolds at a pace determined by the technical processes that sustain…
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How leopards caught leopards
Marcello Mercado How leopards caught leopards, 20 min. 41″, stereo, 4:3, black/white/color, 2014 I found these webcam streams during the final broadcasts of Breaking Bad. Most of them disappeared later. Dead platforms, deleted accounts, broken links. People appeared alone in front of their screens. Smoking, waiting, barely speaking. Sometimes it…
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Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses
Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses: A Performative Construction (Geneva, 2006) In 2006, a performative apparatus was activated within a hotel room in Geneva—an environment operating simultaneously as a spatial container and a neutralized architecture of regulation. The performance constructed a field of epistemic operations based on the formal structure of Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness…
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Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements, 2005
Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements 2005 Conceptual FrameworkThis performance unfolds within a conceptual triangle: Max Weber’s reading of Calvinism as the ethical substrate of capitalism, John Calvin’s moral rehabilitation of profit through moderation and discipline, and Karl Marx’s critique of capital’s capacity to profit from catastrophe. The…
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CV – español
Marcello Mercado nació en 1963 en Chaco, Argentina. Con ciudadanía alemana, vive y trabaja entre Chaco y Köln, Alemania. Su trayectoria artística está profundamente arraigada en la exploración de la intersección entre tecnología, cultura y expresión artística. Con formación en cine, Mercado estudió en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y más tarde en…
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Marcello Mercado – Portfolio 2025
Marcello Mercado (b. 1963, Chaco, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans abstract painting, drawing, and new media. Holding German citizenship, he divides his time between Chaco and Cologne, Germany. With a background in cinema, he studied at the National University of Córdoba and later at the Academy of Art and Media…
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Marcello Mercado – AI – Books – Photography
Marcello Mercado AI – Books Marcello Mercado What I mean to say: There is a war on Was ich damit sagen will: Es herrscht Krieg 398 pages EX_AI-Book 2024 Marcello Mercado High volumes of Post-Post-After-After AI-Book, 623 pages 2024 Marcello…
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Paintings
Marcello Mercado Paintings Fractured SyntaxPaintings at the Threshold of Code and Gesture Marcello Mercado’s paintings invite us into a space where form resists containment. Their surfaces are layered, fractured and shifting – an architecture of marks that seems both deliberate and destabilised. These works do not seek resolution. They pulse with the residual…
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Marcello Mercado/drawings
Marcello Mercado Serie M3 pencil and acrylic on paper, 32cm x 22cm, 12,59in x 8,66in, 2025 In the selected drawings by Marcello Mercado, a systematic exploration of drawing as both event and residue unfolds. Neither illustrating nor narrating, these works reveal the act of drawing as a dynamic…
