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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
Chaco refers to this territory: a vast subtropical region extending across northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. It is marked by intense ecological transformation, extractive economies, deforestation, and the persistence of vernacular forms of building. For Mercado, Chaco is not only a place, but also a material archive: a landscape where memory, erosion, labor,…
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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…
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Dibujos, pinturas y objetos 2026
DIBUJOS: Marcello Mercado, Sin título, lápiz sobre papel, 59,4 x 42cm, 2014 Marcello Mercado, Sin título, lápiz, acrílico y tinta sobre papel, 59,4 x 42cm, 2015 Marcello Mercado, Sin título, lápiz sobre papel, 59,4 x 42cm, 2025 Marcello Mercado, Sin título, lápiz sobre papel,…
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Das Kapital / Napster Search, 1999
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital / Napster / September 1999 This is one of the few surviving screenshots from a search for «Kapital« on Napster. The work no longer exists. Nor does the network that produced it. In September 1999, as part of my Das Kapital project, I searched for «Kapital» on Napster. The action…
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What Color Is an Insult?
Marcello Mercado & Tilman Peschel, 2014 Performance In 2014, Marcello Mercado and Tilman Peschel carried out an action: Pronouncing two insults in German —asshole and bastard— in front of a system that translates voice into color. A microphone connected to a signal-processing module generated chromatic bands projected into space, making the…
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Del cuerpo al sistema: investigaciones recientes
Mi trabajo ha evolucionado desde investigaciones tempranas sobre el cuerpo y la violencia institucional hacia un campo expandido donde la imagen es tratada como un sistema inestable. En los últimos años, desarrollo proyectos que articulan archivo, procesos algorítmicos, escaneo tridimensional y materia orgánica, explorando la transformación, la fragmentación y la pérdida de…
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Operational Matter
Untitled (Red Sedimentation)mixed media on canvas2023 These works operate through material behavior, where liquids sediment, surfaces erode, and pigments accumulate or dissolve. The image is not constructed; it emerges as the result of physical processes. Drawing functions as a structural system—an internal organization without representation. Acts of interruption impose limits,…
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OPEN GENOME ACTIONS
Bio-Performances 2000–2012 OPEN GENOME ACTIONS is a series of bio-performances in which fragments of the artist’s DNA are extracted, dispersed and transmitted across natural and technological environments. 1. DNA for Free, 2014 2. My DNA Belongs to Me, 2014 3. DNA Under Weight, 2004 4. Capital Circulation, 2000 5. The…
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ERODE, 2026
ERODE (2025–ongoing) ERODE operates as a sequential system of 20 operational cases. Each case transforms a human trace into algorithmic and biological signals. ERODE translates human memory loss into signal. Drawings produced by Alzheimer’s patients are converted into algorithms, then…
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Galería Corteza
BREVE PRESENTACIÓN DE LA GALERÍA: Galería Corteza es una propuesta colectiva integrada por tres artistas del NEA y vinculada a materiales atravesados por procesos de desgaste, desaparición y transformación. Reúne obras de Néstor Braslavsky, Cristian Cochia y Marcello Mercado realizadas a partir de un tronco centenario muerto por la urbanización, cortezas caídas de…