Marcorossi artecontemporanea is pleased to present Silenzi d’oro, the new solo exhibition by Mirco Marchelli.

A multifaceted artist, since the mid-1990s Marchelli has developed a body of research centered on memory and the evocative power of matter. In his works, the artist restores life and meaning to everyday objects that merge with painting. Materials such as plaster, white cement, scagliola, and wax become the blank page upon which he creates new forms, achieved by cutting and shaping unusual materials such as rubber, fabric, bricks, and shards. Chosen for their chromatic harmonies, these elements transform into colored tesserae of an entirely personal mosaic.

The title of the exhibition evokes a suspended dimension in which silence is not absence but a generative space—a place of listening and resonance. In the works of this new project, Marchelli’s artistic gesture proceeds even more through “subtraction,” following a logic of removal that recalls music and breath rather than pure formal construction. The material he employs becomes the custodian of layered memories, reactivated through processes that embrace unpredictability and variation.

A distinctive feature of Marchelli’s practice is also the role of titles—often poetic and ironic— constructed as rhetorical figures such as oxymorons, linguistic shifts, and antitheses, establishing a dialogue with the work that is at times harmonious, at times disorienting. Silence, the central theme of the project, becomes “golden”—precious, charged with poetic tension, capable of suggesting rather than declaring. The works thus take shape as silent compositions, in which the balance between matter and mark opens onto an intimate and contemplative perception.