Damien & The Love Guru

Emanuele Marcuccio was born in Veneto to a family of Apulian landowners, giving life to an accent that preserves the worst aspects of both inflections. The industrial traditions of the north-east accustomed him – from an early age – to the prospect of an entrepreneurial life, but it was the circumstances of life that led him to deal with art. In an attempt to remedy the nostalgia of a more productive world, his art often relies on local iron and steel industries, with which he shares the same formal priorities: desire for efficiency and hard work. The war to the formal approximation is the aspect that most characterizes Marcuccio's practice, despite that, the human tragedy of production as a perpetration transpires in each of his piece making it profoundly human. (Daniele Milvio)

Education

• Mountain School of Art, 2017, Los Angeles, US
• MA Fine Art, Ecole Kantonale d’Art et Design de Lausanne ECAL, 2015, Lausanne, CH
• BA Fine Art, Accademia di Belle Arte di Brera, 2010, Milan, IT

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

• Book launch, finissage Veit Laurent Kurz, Weiss Falk/ Hacienda Books in collaboration with Damien & The Love Guru, 2022, Zurich, CH
• Frieze London, solo presentation, 2022, UK
• Dream pop, Lodos Gallery, 2022, Mexico City, ME
• Sculpture Inauguration, Suns.works, 2022, Zurich, CH
• SEP 21, Damien & The Love Guru, 2021, Brussels, BE
• Si o No, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2020, Milan, IT
• Terence, Sangt Hipolyt, 2019, Berlin, DE
• Lausanne, Ellis King, 2017, Dublin, IE
• DARSE, Fabrice Gigy, 2015, Geneva, CH

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Group show, Alienze, 2022, Vienna, AT
• Der Radwechsel, Universitätsgalerie Heiligenkreuzerhof, 2022, Vienna, AU
• '45°28'OI'N 9°II'24'E, CFAlive, 2021, Milan, IT
• Bread & Salt, The Community, 2021, Paris, FR
• Winter Solstice, Suns.works, 2020, Zurich, CH
• Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, 2020, Munich, DE
• No String Attached, Hyphen Project, 2020, Milan, IT
• Liste Art Fair, invited by Lodos Gallery, 2019, Basel, CH
• The Salon de Normandy, invited by No Conformism, 2019, Paris, FR
• Summer Show, Castiglioni, 2019, Milan, IT
• Ten Years of ECAL, Galerie l’ELAC, 2017, Lausanne, CH
• La Velocity Delle Immagini, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, 2016, Rome, IT
• Il Futuro era Bellissimo per Noi, Cite International des Arts, 2016, Paris, FR
• Alpensasein, 2016, Val Masino, IT
• Puesta en Escena, hosted by Lodos Gallery, Museo Experimental El Eco, 2016, Mexico City, ME
• Death of the Shambls, Silicon Malley, 2015, Lausanne, CH
• Playtime, 9800, 2015, Los Angeles, US
• System of a Down, Ellis King, 2015, Dublin, IE
• G.I.F.T, Institut Kunst, 2015, Basel, CH
• Life is a Bed of Roses, Foundation d’Enterprise Ricard, 2015, Paris, FR
• Il Progetto del Terzo Giorno, Istituto Svizzero, 2015, Milan, IT
• Lavorare Lavorare Lavorare Preferisco il Rumore del Mare, Centre D’Art Contemporain, 2015, Geneva, CH
• A Form Is A Social Gather, Plymouth Rock, 2015, Zurich, CH
• A Paz Entre os Animals, Boatos Fine Art, 2014, San Paulo, BR
• I Brought A Hyacinth Flower With Lots of Leaves, Just To Make It Feel Like Spring, Karma International, 2014, Zurich, CH
• Megarave Metarave, WallRiss, 2014, Fribourg, CH
• Accrochage Vaud, Musée Cantonale de Beaux-Arts, 2014, Lausanne, CH
• Art of Living, Galerie Chez Valentin, 2013, Paris, FR

Grants and Awards

• SOMA Summer, residency grant awarded by ECAL, 2014, Lausanne, CH

Residences

• Mountain School of Art, 2017, Los Angeles, US
• SOMA Summer, 2014, Mexico City, MX

Related Activities

• Provence AW 21/22 The Poster Issue, publication launch, Art Basel, 2021, Basel, CH

• Artist book, edition of 50, published by Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022
• Emanuele Marcuccio, published by Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2022

Published Work

• Provence AW 21/22 The Poster Issue, edited by Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger, published by Spector Books, 2019, Leipzig, DE
• Provence AW 18/19: Report Issue, edited by Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger, published by Spector Books, 2019, Leipzig, DE

• ‘Emanuele Marcuccio: meccano emotivo e autoreclutamento’, Daniele Milvio and Samuel Gross, Flash Art, 2021
• SEP 21, Critics Picks, Adam Jasper, ArtForum, 2021
• SEP 21, Art Viewer, 2021
• SEP 21, Contemporary Art Library, 2021
• Si o No, GalleriesNow, 2021
• Living As, Art Viewer, 2020
• ‘Emanuele Marcuccio: reproduction in an age of creative precarity’, Sofia Dati, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2020
• ‘Emanuele Marcuccio’, Samuel Gross, Flash Art, 2017
• ‘5 Questions with Emanuele Marccucio’, interview with Emily Steer, Elephant, 2017