Galería Zielinsky is pleased to present Óxido, an exhibition by Eduardo Marco from November 10th to December 18th, 2021. Óxido is Eduardo Marco’s third solo show for Galería Zielinsky, in which the artist presents a series of photographs captured in different countries and contexts. The exhibition is accompanied by the book launch that bears the same title as the exhibition - with a foreword by Ray Loriga and edited by Turner - and which has been recognized in 2020 with the Best Edited Book Award in the Art Books category, an award granted annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain.
Eduardo Marco develops his projects under themes that generate extensive and powerful visual research. From his gaze he has photographed different scenes and landscapes of Asian, European and Latin American countries, although in the exhibition the artist focuses on images produced between 2012 and 2017 on the streets of cities and regions such as Istanbul, Cairo, Delhi, the Brazilian Northeast, Tokyo and Jaipur. Marco uses photography to record the emotions implicit in life and death, and argues that art is inseparable from the flow of life. As Ray Loriga observes, in the book Óxido: «Perhaps Eduardo Marco’s sharpest talent is finding the trace of time in his photographs. A time that precedes us and awaits us and goes on despite of us. What we see is not the revealed ephemeral moment but a persistent cadence, a dragged chain dragging us, link by link, step after step, from the streets silhouetted by so much destruction to the severe presence of death, of life backed into a corner. The obstinate permanence of what was and still is, like the rancour of recollection.
Eduardo Marco was born in 1970 in Santa Vitória do Palmar (Brazil) and lives in Madrid since 2007. His works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, either in solo or group shows, including: United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG); Foundation Watu Indigenous Action; Nau Gaudí in Mataró; Jesús de Ibiza Cultural Center, Comillas de Cantábria Foundation and Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid as part of the Balia Foundation auction project. He published his first book in 2006, A Maior Praia do Mundo, a four-month investigation of the 200-kilometer-long Cassino beach (Brazil).
