Napolitan born in 1973, Marcello SIMEONE illustrates in his pictures, videos and installations a personal universe rough and sensual at the same time, where the ordinary becomes intimate poetry. His own experience is only the starting point of artworks that show a fascination for fringe cultures, street life, electronic music, where teenage excess and unbalance become melancholy elegance.
Marcello SIMEONE stages his urban cartography, sensitive and dark. Fragments of everyday life, a sculpture made of silent loudspeakers, a beheaded crucifix and a circular carpet of plastic bags are part of a scenario between real life and dreams of another life. Farther, an enlarged brooch becomes a precious painting; next to it, a museum showcase displays relics from the turn of the 80s, spoons as they could be found in Neapolitan bars: pierced so that they would not be stolen by drug addicts.
Marcello SIMEONE recreates for his exhibition at Cosmic Galerie (spring 2003) the decorum of a club (darkness, jerky and violent stroboscope light, face of a woman glimpsed between two lightings), flash of a night almost ended. A techno DJ in the beginning of the 90s, the artist has composed a 40 minute track while preparing the show, specially edited in a 150 ex.
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