About Marco Castelli
Marco Castelli lives and works in Firenze, Italy. His personal and documentary research moves through a deep interest in the human environment and life, looking for different approaches to visual art and creative communication.
His works have been awarded, published, and displayed internationally.
Re/De-constructing SKG
Searching for a definition of urban memory, the challenge is to apply the concept of time to the spatial context. The idea of change, especially if operated through human intervention, is not always easy to position in the field of individual perception, giving the contemporary glance a sense of missing identity. However, the natural instinct of adaptation brings our mind to use a quite practical analytical tool, built on a process of deconstruction and reconstruction: it’s basically a synthesis filtered by experience, historical knowledge and personal observation. This way, public architectures and archaeological ruins become an open scheme for proactive discussions, based on the primordial willingness to look beyond pure bricks, in a constant implementation of framing new and enriched perspectives. Somehow, even the concept of beauty itself loses its meaning when compared to the deep significance of this practice itself.
Following Eadweard Muybridge and David Hockney’s works, the focus is now shifted on the interactive aspect of creative research: the invitation for the observers is to play with all the pieces and merge their own, distinctive views, in order to fully understand how the dynamics of a generative system can lead to growth and development in subjective awareness.
ShooTrain
ShooTrain analyzes the idea of journey in its most essential form: movement. Space distortion and time expansion are just the result of a traveling self-projection. Twilight is transformed by speed: color streaks and indistinct shapes overlap with passengers’ world, creating a deep bond with the individual spatial reality.
