Portfolio
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Three Studies on Operational Images
Images are approached as operational surfaces: captured, transformed, transmitted and reconstructed through biological, algorithmic and media systems. 1. Marcello Mercado, Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal , 2026 Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal examines images after their collapse…
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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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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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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…
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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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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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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) …
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PORTFOLIO 2026
Marcello Mercado Es un artista contemporáneo argentino-alemán cuya práctica abarca dibujo, pintura, fotografía, instalaciones y sistemas algorítmicos. Su obra, que ha sido presentada internacionalmente desde los años noventa, examina el cuerpo, las estructuras archivísticas y los procesos tecnológicos mediante metodologías analógicas y digitales. Dibujos (pdf) …
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Portfolio 2025 (English)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Self-Portrait in a State of Archive Run The Neutrals Home Marcello Mercado – AI – Books – Photography DRAWINGS: Marcello Mercado/drawings_03_25 Home PAINTINGS: Marcello Mercado/paintings_277 Home IA FILM INSTALLATION Marcello Mercado – The Hypergaussian War – IA…
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CV 2025
Marcello Mercado (b. 1963, Argentina) is an Argentinian-German artist whose practice investigates the relationship between artificial intelligence, technological obsolescence, and the materiality of digital images. Since the late 1990s, he has produced experimental films, algorithmic videos, and AI-driven visual systems that explore fractured narratives, glitch aesthetics, and speculative computation. His work deconstructs archives,…