Education
Mazzi studied Contemporary literature at the University of Florence and visited Japan, where he studied Japanese avant-garde art and visual poetry.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Marco Mazzi
Edit ProfileCareer
He worked as an editor in the publication of books of contemporary Japanese poetry, such as The Other Voice, the first Italian translation of Yoshimasu Gozo"s poetry. He held exhibitions at the 798 Art District in Beijing (China), the Komaba Art Museum of Tokyo (Japan) and the Torino “Artissima” Art Fair (Italy). In January 2008 The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo held the first solo exhibition of the artist in Japan, screening his short film Voyager, a Journey through Time and Water (2005-2008).
In October 2009 the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea (MLAC, Rome) held Mazzi"s exhibition "Seeing and Knowing, the Naturalization of Vision", curated by the Italian writer and art critic Lorenzo Carlucci.
In March 2010 he took part to the exhibition "Il medium disperso" (MLAC, Rome) together with Keren Cytter and Clemens von Wedemeyer. In 2008 Mazzi founded the non-profit organization "Relational Cinema Association" within the University of Waseda in Tokyo.
The project involves screening of films and videos by Francesca Banchelli, Eric Baudelaire, Johanna Billing, Josef Dabernig, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, Harun Farocki, Marine Hugonnier, Mark Lewis, Amie Siegel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In 2010 Mazzi shoot a documentary film Kiju Yoshida and a Vision of Fear, in collaboration with Kiju Yoshida, the acclaimed Japanese film director
Moreover, Mazzi was photographer in residence at The Department of Eagles (Tirana, Albania), together with Diego Cossentino, during the conference “Pedagogies of Disaster”.
