Mirco Marchelli- Sogni D’oro
Milan, 19 February 2026 – 18 April 2026 |
Mirco Marchelli
Silenzi D’oro
19 February 2026 – 18 April 2026
Milan
Corso Venezia 29, 20121 Milan, MI
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-7pm
MARCOROSSI artecontemporanea is pleased to present Silenzi d’oro, the new solo exhibition by Mirco Marchelli.
A multifaceted artist, since the mid-1990s Marchelli has developed a body of research centered on memory and the evocative power of matter. In his works, the artist restores life and meaning to everyday objects that merge with painting. Materials such as plaster, white cement, scagliola, and wax become the blank page upon which he creates new forms, achieved by cutting and shaping unusual materials such as rubber, fabric, bricks, and shards. Chosen for their chromatic harmonies, these elements transform into colored tesserae of an entirely personal mosaic.
The title of the exhibition evokes a suspended dimension in which silence is not absence but a generative space—a place of listening and resonance. In the works of this new project, Marchelli’s artistic gesture proceeds even more through “subtraction,” following a logic of removal that recalls music and breath rather than pure formal construction. The material he employs becomes the custodian of layered memories, reactivated through processes that embrace unpredictability and variation.
A distinctive feature of Marchelli’s practice is also the role of titles—often poetic and ironic— constructed as rhetorical figures such as oxymorons, linguistic shifts, and antitheses, establishing a dialogue with the work that is at times harmonious, at times disorienting. Silence, the central theme of the project, becomes “golden”—precious, charged with poetic tension, capable of suggesting rather than declaring. The works thus take shape as silent compositions, in which the balance between matter and mark opens onto an intimate and contemplative perception.
Mirco Marchelli was born in 1963 in Novi Ligure, and lives and works in Ovada. Since the early 1990s he has exhibited in numerous solo shows in Italy and abroad, particularly in Germany, France, and Spain. In 2011 he took part in the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice. Selected solo exhibitions include: Studio La Città, Verona, 2000 and 2003; Accademia Filarmonica, Casale Monferrato, 2011; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, 2013; Fondazione Lercaro, Bologna, 2014; Museo Ettore Guatelli, Ozzano Taro Collecchio, 2016; Galleria Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana, La Spezia, 2020; Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2021; Galerie Tourette, Paris, France, 2022; Museo Archeologico, Acqui Terme, 2023; Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, Belgium, 2024; Alzueta Gallery, Paris, 2025. Exhibitions at MARCOROSSI artecontemporanea, Milan: Trombe clarini e genis, 2007; Mezza bellezza, 2012; A due voci, 2016; A capo. Ceramiche Albisola, 2018; Tante belle cose, 2022.
