Marcelo Cidade

Marcelo Cidade was born in São Paulo in 1979, where he lives and works.

Through an often subversive and informal practice, the artist questions the ideals of modernist architecture, appropriates urban spaces and, by means of various aesthetic operations, invents new idioms, constructing fresh and surprising spaces.

The intimate bond which, for Cidade, holds together art and life authorizes the artist to explore the continual oscillating flow between the social and the personal sphere.

Comparing established social relations and values, Cidade produces an “aesthetics of resistance”, creates works that express complex social conflicts and brings signs and situations from on the street into spaces given over to art.

The artist’s works emphasize an encounter between art and society, without neglecting to privilege poetic expression and the discussion of language, also inspired politically by notions of challenge and transgression.

One of Cidade’s interests is the public space generated in the urban and technological flux of the surveillance society.

He concentrates on one place to reach another one, setting in motion a process of dislocation from the historic-geographic to the poetic.

The city is the privileged site of events, and it is here that the artist looks for his work materials. Streets, walls, flyovers, squares, shutters are a challenge for his gaze.

Submitted by GALLERIA CONTINUA