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.
Face to Phase – Me, Myself & Nobody
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel. / What is important to me is not the truth outside myself but within myself. / The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be. / Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you. / Put life into the imagined circumstances and actions until you have completely satisfied your sense of truth and until you have awakened a sense of faith in the reality of your own sensations. / The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, the actor and his part, their joint feelings, and subconscious creation. / Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more exciting life than the one that actually surrounds him. / When we are on stage, we are in the here and now. / Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
– Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij
A Micro Odyssey
Most of the photographs of microbes and bacteria have a scientific nature, adapted to detect and emphasize the unique geometries that these can form. This time, however, the interest is to use the natural shapes of bacterial colonies to enlarge and project them into another dimension, reversing all logic and ratio between big and small, thus loading the planets, the universe, and all the work of symbolic values.
This gives them charm and mystery, makes them sublime images and ironic too (planet’s names directly refer to the sampled surfaces), which in their relationship with science recall the themes, the spirit, and the philosophy of a lot of artistic production from the last century. – Caterina Pacenti
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