Artists
Marcellvs L. Born in 1980 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Lives and works in Berlin
Portrait
Marcellvs L.
Marcellvs L.’s videos and video installations seek to step beyond the purely visual to an existential, at times physical, experience of the art work. The deceleration of our daily experience of time and the productive interplay of sound and image are indicative of his work.
Marcellvs L. places time in a perpetual state of “duration” and makes it physically experienceable by reducing the narrative to a minimum and using only one camera perspective. He sharpens our eye for detail with films of everyday things, such as in the workToga(2011), which shows a close-up of a fishing net being reeled in with its vertigo-like effect being enhanced by the muffled tones of the soundtrack. Along side his large-scale video installations, Marcellvs L. has been developing a series of short videos since 2002 calledVideoRhizomethat are seemingly chance occurrences taken from daily life; everyday pictures that, however, appear alien and mysterious through the perspective and technique used to film them. The title of the series reflects the influence of the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, whose thinking shapes Marcellvs L.’s works. Along with chance being factored into the making of the Rhizom works, their distribution is also randomly organized and represents an open-ended work concept that is constantly entering into new associations and alliances.
Education
| bis 2003 | PUC-MG’s Faculdade de Comunicação e Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
Awards
| 2009 | Stipendium Akademie der Künste 2009, Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| 2008 | GASAG Kunstpreis, Berlin |
| 2007 | ars viva 07/08 „Sound“ |
| 2005 | Hauptpreis des 51. Kurzfilmfestivals Oberhausen, Deutschland |
Solo exibitions (selection)
| 2011 |
12 x 12, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
COMMA 34, Bloomberg Space, London 0667 0778 3196 1716, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island |
| 2010 | VideoRhizome, Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Wien, Austria |
| 2009 | Berlin-Paris, 52°30'50.13" N 13°22'42.05" E, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France |
| 2008 |
GASAG Kunstpreis, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 52°30'50.13" N 13°22'42.05" E, carlier | gebauer, Berlin |
| 2007 |
Wer mich lenkt ist das Meer, carlier | gebauer, Berlin Bolsa Pampulha: Marcellvs L., Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| 2005 | Temporada de Projetos 2005/2006 Paço das Artes, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2003 | VídeoRizoma, Instituto Félix Guattari, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2011 |
17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil Kunst und Philosophie, NBK-Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Landschaft als Weltsicht, Museum Wiesbaden Universo Vido. Historias fugaces, LABoral, Gijn, Spain Sismgrafo, Palcio des Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Terre Vulnerabili - a growing exhibition, Hangar Bicocca, Mailand, Italy Weltsichten: Landschaft in der Kunst vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Kunsthalle zu Kiel |
| 2010 |
Video Brasilienne: Un Anti-Portrait, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France A Contemplao do Mundo, Paralela Liceu de Artes e Ofcios de SãoPaulo, São Paulo, Brazil Weltsichten: Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Situation Kunst, Bochum Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil, New Museum, New York, USA Stadt am Rande, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Subjektive Projektionen, Bielefelder Kunstverein Between the silhouette and the background, unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy |