Artist´s book
-
Vilém Flusser and Marshall McLuhan /Aviation Alphabet, 2010
Victor, India, Lima, Echo, Mike, Foxtrot, Lima, Uniform, Sierra, Sierra, Echo, Romeo, Mike, Alpha, Romeo, Sierra, Hotel, Alpha, Lima, Lima, Mike, Charlie, Lima, Uniform, Hotel, Alpha, November. (Vilém Flusser and Marshall McLuhan, Aviation Alphabet). 2010 Two unique pieces, 2 black-and-white QR code puzzle books, Each 40 cm x 28.5 cm. Each puzzle has 120…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
THE DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP The transdisciplinary DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP consists of project leaders Katharina Gsöllpointner (media theoretician), Ruth Schnell (artist), Romana Schuler (art historian) and artists Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. During the research process invited artists and scientists will participate as special guests in the context of certain topics and/or project phases.…
-
Marcello Mercado, FHLR, 42 pages, artist´s book, 2010
Marcello Mercado FHLR 42 pages, artist´s book 2010 This experimental artist’s book (2010) operates at the intersection of software failure, visual noise and procedural abstraction. Rather than treating glitch as an aesthetic effect, the work approaches error as a structural condition: a state in which…
-
Marcello Mercado, die Reise mit der Beagle (The journey with the Beagle), Artist´s Book,2010
Marcello Mercado die Reise mit der Beagle (The journey with the Beagle) watercolor on paper Artist´s Book, 24 pages 2010 The Journey with the Beagle (2010) Conceived as a unique artist’s book composed of watercolor drawings on paper, the work does not illustrate a narrative…
-
Marcello Mercado, White, conceptual artist book, 125 pages, 2013
Marcello Mercado White conceptual artist book, 125 pages 2013