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The Warm Place
The Warm Place (El Lugar Tibio) is an experimental video by Argentine artist Marcello Mercado. Made from fragments of video, drawings, photographs, sound, text, hand-painted slides, and digital image processing, the piece explores the instability of the body under conditions of historical violence, technological mediation, and failed memory. …
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Image as Failed System
Works in which drawings, image files, digital errors and material surfaces operate as unstable systems of registration. Marcello Mercado, Untitled (Diptych)Inkjet print on white vinyl canvas, 60 × 90 cmCollage with fabric remnants, adhesive and paper on canvas, 30 × 40 cm2026 …
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Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal
EN — ENGLISH VERSION NON-PIXEL: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal NON-PIXEL is not presented as a book of images, nor even as a book about images. It operates instead as an analytical device that displaces visuality toward its operative condition: A…
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Das Kapital – Archivo F.X., 2006
Attempts to translate Das Kapital into a moving image have been discussed in relation to Marcello Mercado’s work on the text. Since 1997, his video work has been connected to projects by Sergei Eisenstein, Guy Debord and Alexander Kluge, addressing the issue of representing economic theory…
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Architectures of residue
Marcello Mercado is a German–Argentine artist living in Argentina. He works across video installation, drawing, photography, and sculpture. His work investigates error, residue, and the unstable threshold between digital and organic forms. Marcello Mercado, Day/Night, Photography, 2003 Marcello Mercado, Glitches_Diaries of Pure_Desktop, 20122-channel…
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Bücher online
Marcello Mercado High volumes of Post-Post-After-After (Hohe Volumina des Post-Post-Nach-Nach) Künstlerbuch über künstliche Intelligenz, 623 Seiten 2024 Dieses 623 Seiten starke Buch versammelt algorithmische Kombinationen zwischen konkreter Kunst, Architektur, künstlicher Intelligenz und spekulativen Bildsystemen. Es untersucht, wie sich Form, Sprache und Wahrnehmung unter den Bedingungen maschineller Produktion verändern. …
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The Voices, Notations, 2021
The Voices (2021) can be read as a notation without a prior score. It is not the inscription of an existing sound but rather an attempt to capture the emergence of a voice before language takes hold. The still-visible staff lines no longer organize pitch or duration.…
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Marcello Mercado, EX – AI, Fashion Men- Prompt, AI-Book, 2023 Version 1
Marcello Mercado EX – AI – Fashion Men- Prompt AI-Book Version 1 2023
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Marcello Mercado, The green that surrounds you, AI-Book, 2023
Marcello Mercado The green that surrounds you AI-Book 2023 263 ways of looking at Metahumans
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The installation begins with a common form of warning found in many Argentine cities: when there is a pothole, a trench, or a destroyed section of street that blocks access or puts cars at risk, the municipality places dry branches inside tires painted white and yellow. It is a provisional and recognizable…
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Matter, Memory, Construction
Marcello Mercado is an Argentine artist based in Germany whose work moves between collage, sculpture, installation, and digital media. Since the early 1990s, he has worked with organic and discarded materials—especially palm bark, fibers, and residues collected in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina. Chaco refers to this…
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Selección de obra
PINTURAS: Marcello Mercado, Sin título, técnica mixta sobre tela, 320 x 210cm, 2022 Marcello Mercado, Sin título, técnica mixta sobre tela, 320 x 210cm, 2005 Marcello Mercado, Sin título, óleo sobre tela, 60 x 80cm, 2016 Marcello Mercado, Cabeza_01, óleo sobre tela, 30 x…