Marco Simonelli — Photographic Artist
Marco Simonelli is a fine art photographer.
Before turning to photography, he spent years in a professional field that taught him something rarely cultivated through artistic training: attending to what withdraws beneath appearances. Understanding that what is visible and what is real seldom coincide.
That experience became the starting point of his artistic inquiry: investigating the moment when an image ceases to represent and begins to exceed itself.
Simonelli refers to this condition as The Excess of the Image — the point at which a photograph no longer resolves into what it shows, but opens a further field of presence, ambiguity, and interpretation.
His work unfolds through independent series and projects that explore different relationships between image, space, and perception.
Among them, Spazio–Tempo reintroduces classical architectural structures into contemporary interiors, creating friction between historical memory and present perception.
Flores works through proximity, scale, and visual saturation, transforming organic forms into surfaces that appear to expand beyond their own boundaries.
These series represent two trajectories within a broader body of research that continues to evolve through different projects while remaining guided by the same underlying question: at what point does an image cease to describe reality and begin to produce an autonomous presence?
Simonelli’s works are conceived as spatial interventions — not images that accompany a space, but presences that alter its perceptual rhythm.
His photographs are intended for contexts where spatial experience is understood as inseparable from aesthetic experience.