Marco Scozzaro “Digital Deli”

Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY

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Baxter St at CCNY presents 2016 Workspace Resident Marco Scozzaro’s solo show Digital Deli.

In his exhibition, Scozzaro employs a photographic fiction-making process as obliquely autobiographical, fabricating, inventing, and constructing images that straddle both criticism and confession. Subverting a tantalizing advertising style of rich colors and textures with staged images that disorient, Scozzaro questions the representability of certain ideas that recur in mass media. Not merely a criticism of oversimplification in visual culture today, his images are also documents of a purposely mis-directed self-representation. In some of Scozzaro’s work there is a clear tension between the naturally mechanical aspect of photography where the camera plagiarizes nature versus the corruption of that verisimilitude with a variety of techniques. The corruptions and contradictions appear as variations of the very notions they reference in a kind of object-oriented ontology that ultimately revokes a hierarchy of signification.

- text by Jorge Alberto Perez

Marco Scozzaro (b. 1979) is an Italian artist based in New York City, whose practice incorporates photography, music, video and installation. He received his MA in Psychology from the University of Parma, in Italy and has been a Photo Global artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally including solo shows at Ed Varie in New York, Galleria Civica di Modena in Italy, and Galerie Villa Des Tourelles in Paris. Group shows include Aperture Foundation, Spencer Brownstone and New York Photo Festival in New York; Grid Photography Biennial in Amsterdam; and Mala Stanica National Gallery of Macedonia in Skopje, among others. His photographs have appeared on international publications including The New York Times, Wallpaper, GQ, ArtReview, Osmos and Vice, among others.