Marco Simonelli — Photographic Artist
Marco Simonelli is a fine art photographer whose research investigates the relationship between image, perception, and reality.
Before turning to photography, he spent years in a profession that required something few artistic educations teach: the ability to read what lies beneath surfaces. To understand that what appears and what exists are rarely the same thing.
That experience became the central question of his artistic practice: what carries an image beyond itself? What does it reveal that it never intended to show? What does it conceal in the very act of showing?
This inquiry revolves around what he defines as The Excess of the Image: the capacity of the photographic image to generate meanings that exceed intention, revealing presences, absences, and tensions that emerge beyond the represented subject.
His practice also includes conceptual works that explore the relationship between image, language, and the construction of meaning, questioning the mechanisms through which we assign significance to what we see.
This research takes shape through different bodies of work, including Space-Time, which reintroduces classical architectural structures into contemporary interiors, creating a collision between historical depth and the present moment, and Flores, which through proximity and saturation transforms organic forms into surfaces that press against space rather than passively inhabiting it.
Both series are conceived as spatial interventions: not decorative objects, but active presences capable of altering the perception of the environments they enter.
Simonelli's works are conceived as presences capable of transforming the relationship between observer, image, and space. For this reason, they find their place not only in architectural, residential, hospitality, and professional settings, but also in private collections dedicated to contemporary photographic and conceptual research.