Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

I’m happy to share today the work of Marco Scozzaro whom I met a few months ago at the 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program (I highly recommend the NYFA mentorship program if you are a non US citizen artist based in New York!). “With Digital Deli, I set out to investigate the visual vernacular and the inevitable image consumption of mass communication culture. I am interested in decoding the universe of signs of the disorienting contemporary landscape - both real and virtual - and how these reflect the way the social superstructure shapes behaviors and identities. I observe the everyday aiming at understanding the uncertain dimension I find myself now and the related feeling of displacement. I am attracted by the generic and the mundane, and I focus my attention on subtle details that can unveil new worlds. I am intrigued by the possibility of unifying opposites by juxtaposing images that are, on first viewing, different but related on a much broader level. I use cultural artifacts, appropriation, humor and a variety of different photographic approaches to explore the fine line between reality and fiction and how photography and its inherent artifice fit in this gap.” Marco Scozzaro (1979) is an Italian artist based in New York City. His practice focuses on photography, music, installation, and video. He studied psychology at the University of Parma, Italy and photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. He is a freelance photographer and teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. http://www.marcoscozzaro.com