We are honoured to announce Motivi di Gioia, Mirco Marchelli's Solo Exhibition at ourMadrid Gallery, gathering the latest body of work by the Italian artist.

Mirco is what we call in Spain 'a lost verse'. Following the rich tradition of the ItalianMovement Arte Povera, Mirco brings the colour, the joy and the finesse that sometimes is lacking in Povera Art.

Mirco is the joy of the south, even though he is a man of the north. His colours, shapes and geometrical combinations bring us closer to meditation, to the hedonistic pleasures that arise under the sun as opposed to the dark mists that accompany life in the north of Italy.

Mirco Marchelli is a total artist: he is an artist of life and passion, who embraces various media, from ceramic to encaustic, excelling in all of them.

Mirco is a quiet man. A man who understands that art and life require time, something that we can see in the slow evolution of his work. From his beginnings until today, Mirco follows a straight and personal style that only emphasises the quality of his work through the years, the experience and the conviction that his taste has been a winning bet.

Mirco Marchelli (Novi Ligurem, 1963) lives and works in Ovada, in the province of Alessandria. A multifaceted artist, Marchelli developed his first works in the field of visualarts since the mid-nineties, in continuity with his musical research. The keys to interpret-ing his work are memory and the fascination that emerges from everyday objects; masts,stools, small furniture, pieces of wood or cloth, books, accounting notebooks, registers,boxes, and photographs are covered with a layer of wax that eternalises and transfiguresthem.

Marchelli gives life and meaning to these materials, making use of their resonances and the stories they express to tell something new; it does not limit itself and evokes memories, but rather evokes suggestions that fall back on longing for the past. The fact that heis an artist-composer or composer-artist is not an incidental element, nor a biographical coincidence (for many years he was the trumpeter of Paolo Conte's band), but the key to access the unique world that he has built about him. many years.

Borrowing the language of music criticism, it could be said that the artist proceeds bymodulating plastic progressions and ornamentation. In it there is no break between mu-sic and painting: he chooses 'ingredients' very varied in matter, appearance and origin, mixes and elaborates everything with very free forms and a fantastic style, but with rigorous methods, as a composer does, in the development of a sonata-form, and to those recovered 'old things' it gives a new meaning and flavour, exploiting their iresonancesi, the stories they carry.

Starting in 2017, Marchelli experimented with ceramics, a new material for his artistic research, which became the protagonist of a new cycle of works.

Press release courtesy Alzueta Gallery.