Marcello Nitti

Marcello Nitti (Taranto, 1988) currently lives and works in Lecce.

In 2007 he enrolled in the Painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, where he cultivated his interest in figuration. After obtaining his Level I Academic Diploma, he decided to pursue his research independently, deepening his knowledge of the technical and formal aspects of the painting tradition and, at the same time, developing a personal poetics. In recent years he recovers his interest in engraving by developing several projects featuring this technique. In 2019, he enrolled in the course of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce, earning the Level II Academic Diploma. In 2021, together with Mauro Curlante, he founded Guado Edizioni, a publishing project that aims to explore contemporary intaglio and the surrounding areas, inviting visual artists to develop unpublished projects for art editions.

Solo exhibitions:

2024 What’s more than enough, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Turin

2014 Cubiculum, Castello Aragonese, Otranto (LE)

2013 Working Classics, Majazzin House Gallery, Altamura (BA), curated by Giovanni Matteo

2013 CoExistence, Il Soppalco/136 Contemporary Art, Taranto

Group exhibitions:

2024 Zacht, stil en traag, PAK (platform voor actuele kunsten), Gistel, Belgium

2023 This (not) is a museum, Castrignano de’ Greci (LE), diffuse group exhibition curated by Kora – Contemporary Art Center

2023 Fear, Psychiatrisch Centrum Sint-Amandus, Beernem, Belgium

2021 Cloud, Online traces offline and vice versa, Linea, Lecce

2021 Immagini immaginari, MUST – Museo Storico Città di Lecce, Lecce, bipersonal exhibition with Niccolò Masini, curated by Lorenzo Madaro

2017 Omaggio ai caduti, Fondazione Lac o Le mon, San Cesario di Lecce (LE) curated by Laura Perrone

2016 Tetraedrum, Luogo d’Arte Lamorgese, Lecce

2016 About Landscape, Art and Ars Gallery, Galatina (LE), two-person exhibition with Davide Russo, curated by Givanni Matteo

2015 Welcome Home, Palazzo Ulmo, Taranto, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara

2014 Primvm non nocere: phase I, Umuse, Ruffano (LE), curated by Giovanni Matteo

2014 Primvm non nocere: phase II, Umuse, Ruffano (LE), two-person exhibition with Davide Russo, curated by Giovanni Matteo

2014 Untitled, Fondazione Palmieri, Lecce, two-person exhibition with Davide Russo

Residences:

Painting symposium, 2018, Foundation Lac o Le mon, San Cesario di Lecce (LE)

Omaggio ai caduti, 2017, Foundation Lac o Le mon, San Cesario di Lecce (LE)

Creart A-i-R program, 2017, Kaunas, Lituania