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Marcelo Cidade

Irregulares 2022. Reinforced concrete barriers made with fittings that together form 08 (eight) monuments for use in public spaces. Technical responsible for the architectural project: Pedro Rubenstein. Location: Charles Müler Square, Pacaembú – São Paulo. Photo by Marina D'Imperio at the Praca Charles Miller

Marcelo Cidade

Irregulares 2022. Reinforced concrete barriers made with fittings that together form 08 (eight) monuments for use in public spaces. Technical responsible for the architectural project: Pedro Rubenstein. Location: Charles Müler Square, Pacaembú – São Paulo. Photo by Marina D'Imperio at the Praca Charles Miller

Marcelo Cidade

Irregulares 2022. Reinforced concrete barriers made with fittings that together form 08 (eight) monuments for use in public spaces. Technical responsible for the architectural project: Pedro Rubenstein. Location: Charles Müler Square, Pacaembú – São Paulo. Photo by Marina D'Imperio at the Praca Charles Miller

Marcelo Cidade

Abuso de poder, 2010. Iron wire, marble. 1,5 x 8 x 19 cm. Photo: Oak Taylor-Smith

Marcelo Cidade

Expansao por Subtracao, 2014, mirror, 320 x 360,5 x 15 cm. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

o equilíbrio entre proteção e resistência - series, 2014, camouflage jacket, blanket textile residue, crowbar and hammer, 290 x 100 x 50 cm. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

Expansao por Subtracao, 2014, mirror, 320 x 360,5 x 15 cm. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

Expansao por Subtracao, 2014, mirror, 320 x 360,5 x 15 cm. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

Pessoal e intransferível, 2016, dyptich, Notebooks, cement, acrylic medium, Vedacit multipurpose sealant, 19 x 26 cm each

Marcelo Cidade

Pessoal e intransferível (borda cinza) / série nóia (polyptych) 4, 2014, Notebooks, cement, acrylic medium, vedacit multipurpose sealant, overall dimensions 21 x 57 cm

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'Som Livre internacional' (group c) from the noias serie, 2015, 6 vinils LPS of brazilian soap operas from the 80's, ciment and acrylic sealant, 31 x 31,5 cm each one (polyptyc). Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

Icone, 2015, light fixtures for fluorescent lamps taken from old buildings in São Paulo, 14 x 65 x 10 cm. Photo Artnine

Marcelo Cidade

Icone, 2015, light fixtures for fluorescent lamps taken from old buildings in São Paulo, 14 x 65 x 10 cm. Photo Artnine

Marcelo Cidade

Tentativa de Apagar o Cotidiano / Corriere Economia, Lunedì 24 Febbraio 2014, 2014, acrylic paint on newspaper, diptych: 45 x 61 cm each. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade

Tentativa de Apagar o Cotidiano / Corriere Economia, Lunedì 24 Febbraio 2014, 2014, acrylic paint on newspaper, diptych: 45 x 61 cm each. Photo Ela Bialkowska

Marcelo Cidade: transforming spaces with imported urban materials

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”; he creates works that express complex social conflicts and brings signs and situations from 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, they are 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.

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