Marcelo Cidade
With a work that is often informal and subversive, MARCELO CIDADE (São Paulo, Brazil, 1979) puts the ideals and paradigms of modernist architecture into question. Appropriating urban spaces, the artist creates new languages and tampers with our pre-conceived notions of space. Exposing consolidated social relationships and values, his work produces a counter current, an “aesthetic of resistance” that examines multifaceted social conflicts, transporting symbols and situations from the street into spaces dedicated to the development of art.
The following exhibitions can be highlighted: The rhetorics of power (Vermelho Gallery, 2021), Equivalência e desequilíbrio (Galeria Bruno Múrias, 2020), a round around a round around a round around a round around (Oslo Biennial, Norway, 2019), Ministério para Todos (Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA, 2019), No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro. Obras de la Coleção Teixeira de Freitas (Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2019), A Falha da Farsa (Galeria Bruno Múrias, 2018), Do Disturb ! – Festival de Performance (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2018), Subtotal (Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia – Mube, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017), Somewhere, Elsewhere, Anywhere, Nowhere (Kadist SF, San Francisco, USA, 2014), Vamos Falar Senhor Fantasma (Serralves Museum, Porto, 2009), among others.
Cidade’s work integrates institutional collections such as Serralves Foundation; Modern Art Museum of São Paulo; Tate Modern; Kadist Art Foundation; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo; Art Museum of São Paulo – MASP; Bronx Museum, among others.

MARCELO CIDADE
Equivalence and imbalance
2020
Concrete, limestone rock
Variable dimensions (8 elements)
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a round around a round around a round around a round around
2019
Metal structure, intervention in the public space
Oslo Biennalen, Norway, 2019

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Expansion by Subtraction (Le Corbusier)
2018
Glass shards fixed on wall
335 x 760 cm

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Expansion by Subtraction (Le Corbusier) (detail)
2018
Glass shards fixed on wall
335 x 760 cm

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Equivalence and imbalance 7
2020
Concrete, limestone rock
160 x 160 x 15 cm
Ed. 1 +1

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Equivalence and imbalance 1
2020
Concrete, limestone rock
40 x 480 x 15 cm
Ed. 1 +1

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Archeology of Neglect
2018
Concrete bricks, metal structure and 18 th. century tiles
133 x 49,5 x 20 cm

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The Annuler
2018
Galvanized steel tiles and metal structure
265 x 111 x 125 cm

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(Un)monument for V.Tatlin #9
2016
Used brackets for fluorescent lamps
247 x 116 x 23 cm

MARCELO CIDADE
(Un) Monument for V. Tatlin #21
2018
Used brackets for fluorescent lamps
292 x 128 x 09 cm

MARCELO CIDADE
Automatic Debit #5
2016
Cement and acrylic paint
34,5 x 25,5 x 4,5 cm

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Bodyrail
2018
Iron and spray paint
98 x 454 x 28 cm

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Equivalence and imbalance 2
2020
Concrete, limestone rock
80 x 240 x 15 cm
Ed. 1 +1

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Affection for Capital(14/08/17 – 18/08/17)
2017
Canvas, plastic bags, receipts
75 x 50 cm (each)

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Collapse Geometry #6
2015
Blankets, 3M adhesive spray, steel cable and extenders
255 x 227 cm

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Comfortable Conformism
2016
Structure of burnt spring mattress
100 x 129 x 102 cm

MARCELO CIDADE
Expansion by Subtraction
2017
Mirror fragments fixed on wall
Variable dimensions

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Modern Column (Lisbon)
2010-2018
Wheelbarrow, painted wooden column
Variable dimensions

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EUR
2016
Oil barrel, 2 infrared heaters, extension cord
88,5 x 58 x 58 cm

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The Great Mesoclises
2018
Tiles
121 x 196 x 03 cm