Marchelli (nato nel 1963 a Novi Ligure, vive e lavora a Ovada) sceglie “ingredienti” molto vari per materia, aspetto e provenienza e li fonde ed elabora con modi liberissimi e metodi insospettabilmente rigorosi, conferendo loro nuovo senso e sapore. Sfrutta le storie di cui sono portatori per alterare toni e andamenti, ritmi visivi e direzionalità cromatiche. Mirco Marchelli (b. 1963, Novi Ligure, IT; lives and works in Ovada, IT) is an artist and musician. Inspired by everyday materials, including books and old ledgers, themselves a record of experience or time, Marcelli’s small-scale pattern works are composed of off-kilter and well-worn geometric shapes that reference architecture and its ornamentation. The paintings, composed in a faded palette of greens, reds, yellows, are in poetic dialog with an atavistic abstraction, as each carries a patina of history on its surface.