Publications
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Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots, 2014, Book
Marcello Mercado Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots Variationen Van Gogh: Kompositionen für kleine Motoren und Roboter 25 × 20 cm, 82 pages 2014 Variations on Van Gogh: Compositions for Small Motors and Robots /Variationen Van Gogh: Kompositionen für kleine Motoren und Roboter (2014) extends Marcello Mercado’s…
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Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht, 2014
Marcello Mercado Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht 25.5 × 25.5 cm, 60 pages 2014 Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht (2014) is an artist book conceived as an operation of translation and erasure. The project takes as its point of departure the seven painted versions of Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh,…
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Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance, 2015, Book
Marcello Mercado Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance 25 × 20 cm, 240 pages 2015 Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance (2015) is a photographic book structured around a paradoxical form of self-representation: a body that appears only through its reflections, traces and mediations. Mercado constructs a visual field populated…
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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…
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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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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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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.…