Project Description
Marcello Grassi
Was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1960.
In 1985, having visited some exhibitions planned for the Year of the Etruscans, he designed a “visual excavation” project in the places, cities and necropolises of the Etruscan civilisation.
In 1999, during an exhibition of his photographs at the Musée Reattu in Arles, France, Federico Motta Editore published the book “Etruria”.
In 1992 he was appointed as photographer of the findings of the archaeological collection housed in the Marbles Gallery and Courtyard of the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia. This first series of images triggered a long path of research into the Anatomy of Time, conducted in museums and archaeological sites in Italy and across Europe.
In 1995 he began a series of photographs – “The Borges Garden” – on the theme of the relationship between thereal and unreal, focusing on the collections housed in the halls of zoological museums.
From 1994 to 1996 he photographed the city of Arles, France.
In 1997, by appointment of the Musée Archéologique of Nice-Cimiez, he produced a photographic project of the local site.
In 1998, as part of the cultural exchange and twinning programme with Enzkreis in Germany, he was invited by the province of Reggio Emilia to photograph the Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn.
In 2002 he began to work with Fabrizio Orsi on a project about Luzzara, exactly fifty years after the publication of the book “Un Paese” by Cesare Zavattini and Paul Strand.
In late 2004 the book “Luzzara. Cinquant’anni e più..” was published by Skira Editore with a text by Luciano Ligabue.
In 2015 he exhibited the series “Herculaneum”, dedicated to the Campania city ravaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., as part of the tenth edition of the European Photography festival in Reggio Emilia. His works have been exhibited in a number of personal and collective exhibitions in numerous cities around Europe, where his photographs are on show in museums and other institutions.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Marcello Grassi. Archeologia dello Sguardo
curated by Ilaria Bignotti in collaboration with Camilla Remondina, with the support of IAGA Contemporary Art, Fondazione l’Arsenale d’Iseo, Iseo (BS), Italy
2018
Sine Tempore
Civico Museo Archeologico, Milano, Italy
2017
Sine Tempore
Palazzo dei Principi, Correggio, Italy
2016
Medi-Nova
Circuito Off/ within the project Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2016
Divinæ Memoriæ
Circuito Off/ within the project Fotografia Europea, Banca Albertini Syz, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2012
Roma Fuit
Spazio Arté, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2008
Roma Fuit
Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Sala del Borromini , Roma, Italy
2006
Luzzara. Cinquant’anni e più…
Banale Concept Store, Biella, Italy
2005
Luzzara. Cinquant’anni e più…
Museo Cesare Zavattini, Luzzara (RE), Italy
Galleria Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova, Italy
2005
Matzevòt
Sinagoga, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2004
Anatomia del Tempo
Istituto italiano di Cultura (Italian Institute of Culture), Berlin, Germany
2001
Etruria
Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma, Grosseto, Italy
2000
Anatomia del Tempo
Sala delle colonne, Nonantola (MO), Italy
1999
Etruria
Musée Reattu, Arles, Italy
1998
Etruria
Fortezza medicea di Girifalco, Cortona (AR), Italy
1998
Maulbronn
Sala del Preside del monastero di Maulbronn (Headmaster’s Hall of the Maulbronn Monastery), Maulbronn, Germany
1997
Etrurie
Galerie du Château, Nice, France
1996
Etruria
Sala comunale, Cavriago (RE), Italy
1996
Arles
Bibbiano (RE), Italy
1994
I Marmi degli Dei
Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
1994
I Paesi dell’Anima
Galleria della Coppa d’Oro, Parma, Italy
1992
Etruria
Biblioteca comunale, Quattro Castella (RE), Italy
1990
Le immagini dai luoghi degli etruschi
Studio Phi, Trieste, Italy
1989
Spazi e Astrazioni
Cinema Eden, Puianello (RE), Italy
1986
Segnali di Vita
Cinema Rosebud, Reggio Emilia, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
VIRTUAL VS REAL LOVE
IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2018
Le Musée Reattu a 150 ans!
Musée Reattu, Arles, France
2014
Metti il fotografo al museo
Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2013
Mon Île de Montmajour
curator Christian Lacroix, Abbaye de Montmajour, France
2013
‘Un secolo e 7’
Premio Fabbri per L’Arte 2012, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy
Museo degli Alinari, Firenze, Italy
2011
Sur Mesures
Musée Reattu, Arles, France
2011
Hipstamatic
Orange Dot Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011
Hipstograph
Gallery M, Atlanta, Georgia
2011
Hipstamatic for San Lazzaro
Padiglione Lombroso, Reggio Emilia, Italy
within the project Fotografia Europea, SanLazzaro, Italy
2011
Il mio Paese. Luzzara e la fotografia
within the project Fotografia Europea, ex convento degli agostiniani, Luzzara (RE), Italy
2009
Idea di paesaggio
Museo Nazionale delle Arti Naïves, Luzzara (RE), Italy
2008
Collection Reggio Emilia
Mois de la Photo Paris, Hôtel de Galiffet, France
2007
Le città/L’Europa
Ex OPG, within the project Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2007
Binomi
Castello, Formigine (MO), Italy
2006
Le Reattu sujet photographique
Musée Reattu, Arles, France
2006
Uno sguardo sulla città
within the project Fotografia Europea, Centro Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2006
Il volto della follia
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2005
La bestia ingenua
Museo Cesare Zavattini, Luzzara, Italy
2005
Un’arte glocale
Centro cultural de la Asunción, Albacete, Spain
2005
XL. la collection photographique d’Arles
Musée Reattu and other venues, Arles, France
2003
Arles & la Photographie: la collection du Musée Reattu
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
2002
Works on paper by 365 contemporary artists
Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy
2002
ReVisioni
Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2001
Abitare la Città
Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2000
Biennale Postumia Giovani
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (MN), Italy
Museo Parisi Valle, Maccagno (VA), Italy
2000
Esperienze
Palazzo-Pecci Caiani, Foiano della Chiana (AR), Italy
1999
Bianco e Nero
Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Aurillac, France
1997
La Ville Multiple
Musée d’Art Wallon, Liège, Belgium
1996
Photographes Italiens Contemporains
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
1996
10 anni di fotografia
Aranciaia, Colorno (PR), Italy
1996
Metti il fotografo al museo
Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy
1995
Arles revisitée par la photographie
Institut Franco-Portugais, Lisbona, Portugal
1992
Giovani Fotografi Italiani
Spazio Ansaldo, Milano, Italy
1992
Le tresor du Musée Niépce
Musée N.Niépce, Chalon-Sur-Saône, France
AWARDS
2020
Expression of interest in the creation of photographic exhibitions to be held in the venues of the Museo Nazionale Romano for three-year period 2020/2022
ART FAIRS
2021
Art Vilnius 2021
International Art Fair, Vilnius, Lituania
2021
LUCCA ART FAIR – Digital Art Weeks
online on T.O.E. Art Market
2019
MIA Art Fair – The International Photography And Moving Image Art Fair
Milan, Italy
2018
Art Thessaloniki
International Art Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Marcello Grassi. Archeologia dello Sguardo
catalogue of the exhibition at Fondazione l’Arsenale d’Iseo edited by Electa Editore, Italy
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