It’s been 4 years since Marcelo Zocchio (45) presented his last solo, “Utilidades Domésticas”, at Vermelho. At first sight, the two new series of images composing Lançamentos + Planetas [Launches/ Planets] do not resemble the 2005 series composed of pictures of spaces, furniture and objects that were around the artist at the time. However, a sharper eye will notice similar propositions in both, such as the framing of the photographed object in a way that isolates it from its surroundings as if foreground and background were not part of the same universe, or the narrative among the images and their relation to the spectator.
For instance, Planetas [Planets], 2009, depicts a tall man, dressed as if a character of a sci-fi film, standing still and distant-looking at the spectator. The scenery is arid, desolate, and the man is alone. Planetas [Planets] is similar to a spaceship log, as if a photographic record of this characters’ journey across many planets. They are nine metacrylate prints where the artist let himself be photographed frontally, thus establishing a confronting and also distant relation to the spectator that seems enhanced because of the large space between the body and the camera tripod.
Lançamentos [Launches] is a series of computer-generated images and also a video at the ground floor of the gallery where the positivist vision of science existing in Planets is totally shaken up. The video projection shows an unusual line of production. Zocchio’s lonely character packs up several useless objects, remains of the society of consumerism, such as computer monitors, CD and DVD players, cables and HDs. It’s a never-ending procedure that drives us to a fritzlanguian character of Metropolis. In room 1, Lançamentos [Launches) (acrylic objects with inkjet printed images) reveals the old-fashioned individuality of each object by overlapping layers of the twelve objects.
It’s been 4 years since Marcelo Zocchio (45) presented his last solo, “Utilidades Domésticas”, at Vermelho. At first sight, the two new series of images composing Lançamentos + Planetas [Launches/ Planets] do not resemble the 2005 series composed of pictures of spaces, furniture and objects that were around the artist at the time. However, a sharper eye will notice similar propositions in both, such as the framing of the photographed object in a way that isolates it from its surroundings as if foreground and background were not part of the same universe, or the narrative among the images and their relation to the spectator.
For instance, Planetas [Planets], 2009, depicts a tall man, dressed as if a character of a sci-fi film, standing still and distant-looking at the spectator. The scenery is arid, desolate, and the man is alone. Planetas [Planets] is similar to a spaceship log, as if a photographic record of this characters’ journey across many planets. They are nine metacrylate prints where the artist let himself be photographed frontally, thus establishing a confronting and also distant relation to the spectator that seems enhanced because of the large space between the body and the camera tripod.
Lançamentos [Launches] is a series of computer-generated images and also a video at the ground floor of the gallery where the positivist vision of science existing in Planets is totally shaken up. The video projection shows an unusual line of production. Zocchio’s lonely character packs up several useless objects, remains of the society of consumerism, such as computer monitors, CD and DVD players, cables and HDs. It’s a never-ending procedure that drives us to a fritzlanguian character of Metropolis. In room 1, Lançamentos [Launches) (acrylic objects with inkjet printed images) reveals the old-fashioned individuality of each object by overlapping layers of the twelve objects.