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Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 – Artist’s book
Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 Artist’s book This artist’s book belongs to the series Das Kapital and operates as a material archive of minor gestures, residues, and peripheral economies. Composed of twenty plastic pocket-pages, the book holds broken golf tees collected from golf courses, used golf gloves, and domestic photographs of German…
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Das Kapital (Grocery Ledger), 1997
This grocery ledger, recovered in 1997 shortly before the definitive closure of the shop where the artist’s grandparents used to buy their provisions, constitutes one of the earliest foundational gestures of the long-term project Das Kapital. It does not originate from ownership of capital, but from participation in its everyday circulation. The pages…
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The fruits of the Sainte-Victoire mountain, 2011
In The fruits of the Sainte–Victoire mountain, Marcello Mercado transforms one of the most historically significant landscapes in modern painting into a contemporary system of documentation, extraction, and interpretation. Between 1882 and 1885, Paul Cézanne repeatedly depicted the mountain visible from his home in Aix-en-Provence, using geometry to reconfigure the…
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Eismeer (Sea of Ice), 2012, Artist’s book / book-object, 9 × 26 cm, 26 parts
Eismeer (Sea of Ice) presents itself as a book that has abandoned binding in order to become a constellation of portable fragments. The work consists of 26 identifiers—individual credentials designed to be worn on the body—each containing a small ink drawing. These drawings are neither free images nor imagined landscapes: each corresponds to…
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The electric archives (1977 – 1984), 2011
The electric archives (1977 – 1984) 2011 Unique exemplar, 5 parts, 32,5cm x 50,5cm, 3 EEGs, radio-codes, money and DNA on japan paper, 3 CDs In The Electric Archives (1977–1984), Marcello Mercado constructs a book-object in which biomedical recordings, monetary systems, transmission technologies and genetic material are articulated within…
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Text as Territory (1998)
Text as Territory (1998) In Text as Territory, a series of graphic works produced in 1998, language ceases to function as a vehicle of transmission and instead becomes a contested spatial field. Fragments in Latin from Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations and newspaper reports drawn from the Georgian press—originating in a…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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Meta-Mapping (Metakartierung), 2010
In Meta-Mapping (Metakartierung), an artist’s book produced in 2010, drawing becomes a speculative cartographic operation. The pages assemble linear tracings, smudged impressions and layered graphite marks that resemble neurological diagrams, seismic records or drifting coastlines, yet ultimately resist stable identification. Rather than mapping an external territory, the book proposes…
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Unter Strom – mortS retUrn, 2012
In Unter Strom – mortS retUrn, Marcello Mercado conceives of the artist’s book as a device of intensification. Each page operates as an energetic field in which aqueous stains, chromatic filaments, and accumulations of black lines organize into transient states rather than closed compositions. Drawing and painting interlace until hierarchies…
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FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS The pluripotent, 2005
https://archive.org/details/FfffFffsFfssSsssThePluripotent FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS The pluripotent, 2005 electronic music, extreme noises, soundart, microsound, techno, noise, microsound, loop, industrial, game, experimental FFFF FFFS FFSS SSSS — The Pluripotent is a digital opera conceived at the moment when biotechnological promise, institutional authority, and data production converged in a state of near-total…
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PORTFOLIO 2026 (english)
Marcello Mercado He is an Argentine–German contemporary artist whose work includes drawing, painting, photography, installations, and algorithmic systems. Since the 1990s, his work examining the body, archival structures, and technological processes through analog and digital methodologies has been presented internationally. Drawings (pdf) Paintings (pdf) …
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PORTFOLIO 2026 (German)
Marcello Mercado Er ist ein argentinisch–deutscher zeitgenössischer Künstler, dessen Praxis Zeichnung, Malerei, Fotografie, Installationen und algorithmische Systeme umfasst. In seinen Arbeiten untersucht er den Körper, archivische Strukturen und technologische Prozesse mittels analoger und digitaler Methoden. Seine Werke wurden seit den 1990er-Jahren international ausgestellt. Zeichnungen (pdf) …