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MARCELO JÁCOME was born in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Marcelo's work is driven by a constructive will linked the interest on doing. His work is based on the concept of an expanded field, manifesting the experiences at the intersection of painting, architecture, and the object. This approach enables him to create spatial activations and site-specific installations.
Percieving the city as a pictorial instance, Jácome aims to express the aesthetic and chromatic elements present in the landscape through his projects. To achieve this, he sources materials from commercial centers in urban areas, enabling him to suggest formal, chromatic, literal, and symbolic compositions with the focal objects he chooses to feature.
His trajectory includes exhibitions and contributions in institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (PT), The Saatchi Gallery in London (UK), Stiftung Brasilea in Basel (CH), and the Museu do Açude in Rio de Janeiro (BR). Additionally, it has had successful partnerships with renowned groups and brands such as Nike/Nike Lab, ICArt/Royal Caribbean, Farm, Art Rio, and Cidade Matarazzo, among others.