Damien & The Love Guru

In the works of Emanuele Marcuccio, forms are constantly questioned, renegotiated. Making use of both minimal metal artefacts, readymades and photography, the artist develops a strategy whereby associations take the form of allegories. In his serial works to date, surface and depth, information and voids, authenticity and artifice, the legit and the fake, that is classic dualisms and cherished ideals generally, get diluted and mixed up not to the point of conceptually rather exhausted synthesis or crash, but as tentative environments that play style and idea off against one another. Emanuele Marcuccio is an Italian artist living in Milan, Italy.

Education

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

Upcoming

• TBT, Zazà, Naples

Solo & duo exhibitions

• SRL, zaza’, Milan, 2025
• Emanuele Marcuccio, Olivia Edwards Gallery, Miami, 2024
• Emanuele Marcuccio, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024
• Basel Social Club, 2023
• Book launch, finissage Veit Laurent Kurz, Weiss Falk/ Hacienda Books in collaboration with Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2022
• Dream pop, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City, 2022
• Sculpture Inauguration, Suns.works, Zurich, 2022
• SEP 21, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
• Si o No, Damien & The Love Guru, Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan, 2020
• Terence, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, 2019
• Lausanne, Ellis King, Dublin, 2017
• DARSE, Fabrice Gigy, Geneva, 2015

Selected group exhibitions

• Materials, The Rothschild & Co Switzerland Exhibition Series, Zurich, 2026
• charity exhibition to benefit Fondazione Severino, Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milano, 2026
• An Incomplete Survey on Portraiture Vol.1, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2026
• Nordic Noire, Sic, Helsinki, 2025
• Through the Other Eye – Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings and Sculptors, curated by Wyatt Kahn, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, 2025
• Remarks on Colour, Pieter Vermeulen, KBK, Brussels, 2025
• Trieste, Stazione Rogers, Triest, 2025
• There’s No Place Like Home, Saikalis Bay Foundation ETS, Milan, 2025
• Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, Echo, Cologne, 2023
• New Order, Echo, Cologne, 2023
• Greetings, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2023
• Alienze, Vienna, 2022
• Der Radwechsel, Universitätsgalerie Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, 2022
• '45°28'OI'N 9°II'24'E, CFAlive, Milan, 2021
• Bread & Salt, The Community, Paris, 2021
• Winter Solstice, Suns.works, Zurich, 2020
• Living As, Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, Munich, 2020
• No String Attached, Hyphen Project, Milan, 2020
• The Salon de Normandy, No Conformism, Paris, 2019
• Summer Show, Castiglioni, Milan, 2019
• Ten Years of ECAL, Galerie l’ELAC, Lausanne, 2017
• La Velocity Delle Immagini, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, 2016
• Il Futuro era Bellissimo per Noi, Cite International des Arts, Paris, 2016
• Alpensasein, Val Masino, 2016
• Puesta en Escena, Lodos Gallery, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, 2016
• Death of the Shambls, Silicon Malley, Lausanne, 2015
• Playtime, 9800, Los Angeles, 2015
• System of a Down, Ellis King, Dublin, 2015
• G.I.F.T, Institut Kunst, Basel, 2015
• Life is a Bed of Roses, Foundation d’Enterprise Ricard, Paris, 2015
• Il Progetto del Terzo Giorno, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, 2015
• Lavorare Lavorare Lavorare Preferisco il Rumore del Mare, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, 2015
• A Form Is A Social Gather, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, 2015
• A Paz Entre os Animals, Boatos Fine Art, San Paulo, 2014
• I Brought A Hyacinth Flower With Lots of Leaves, Just To Make It Feel Like Spring, Karma International, Zurich, 2014
• Megarave Metarave, WallRiss, Fribourg, 2014
• Accrochage Vaud, Musée Cantonale de Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2014
• Art of Living, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, 2013

Art fairs

• Art Cologne, zaza’, 2025
• Paris Internationale, solo presentation, Lodos Gallery, 2023
• Frieze London, solo presentation, Damien & The Love Guru, 2022
• Liste Art Fair, Lodos Gallery, Basel, 2019

Grants and awards

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

Residences

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

Related activities

• co-founder of MMXX Milan, together with Daniele Milvio
• ‘If I don't exist: why do I dye my hair? – a conversation with MMXX,’ Bonner Kunstverein, Cologne, 2024
• Provence AW 21/22 The Poster Issue, publication launch, Art Basel, Basel, 2021

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

• ‘A Guide to the Best Shows in Miami,’ FRIEZE Magazine, 2024
• ‘Les œuvres d'art immanquables de la foire Paris Internationale,’ Numéro, 2023
• ‘The Best Booths at Paris Internationale,’ ARTnews, 2023
• ‘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