Marcelo Cidade
Biography
Marcelo Cidade (b. 1979, São Paulo) is an artist who works with the creation or modification of urban environments to produce new, often unexpected, and poetically expressive works and situations. His work inserts itself in the constant flux between the shared experience of public spaces and spheres, and our subjective interior space and experience. Through different aesthetic strategies, Cidade creates works that give expression to complex social conflicts and bring signifiers and situations from the street into spaces primarily dedicated to art, and vice versa.
Interview with Marcelo Cidade
Essay
Sindre Andersen is a Norwegian translator, critic and lyricist.
In this essay he writes about Marcelo Cidade’s interest in the indefinable urban space, which he views in terms of Dutch architect Aldo van Eick’s “poetic structuralism.”