Words by Harald Szeemann for Marco Nereo Rotelli, 2001

For years, Rotelli has been pursuing a research on light and the poetic dimension that Harald Szeemann defined as an expansion of the artistic context. Over the years, he has created an interrelation between art and various disciplines of knowledge. Hence, the involvement in his research of philosophers, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, but primarily his relationship is with poetry, which has become a constant reference for his work over time. And it is precisely by starting from a personal reading of poems that internationally renowned poets grant him, that Marco Rotelli’s hand extracts and abstracts the words, turning them into his art.

In this way, the poems and words dedicated to him by poets and writers throughout his life become fundamental pieces of his artist’s journey.

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