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Patterns and Eros
Vernissage, Friday 13 February 2026, 18:00 - 21:00
Turbinenstrasse 46, 8005 Zurich

14 February - 6 March 2026, viewing by appointment only

Patterns and Eros is a solo presentation by Marcelot that brings together his painting and photography to explore the dialogue between tattooed skin and porcelain adorned with intricate motifs. Delicate in their materiality yet lasting as carriers of meaning, both surfaces hold and transmit cultural signs. Skin changes—healing, aging, and renewing—while porcelain preserves its designs with stillness and precision. Together, they become repositories of stories, motifs, and identity, revealing a tension between the vulnerability of the body and the idealized perfection of ceramic.

Marcelot (b. 1965, Swiss Brazilian) is the pseudonym of Marcelo Galvão, born in Potim, Guaratinguetá, Brazil. After studying art education in Pindamonhangaba, his career took him to Europe in 1990, where he continued his training in fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, followed by postgraduate studies in art therapy at the same institution. An invitation to work in Switzerland led to a position at the psychiatric clinic in Münsterlingen, Thurgau, where Marcelot worked as an art therapist for ten years while completing training in group analysis according to Foulkes in Zurich. Since 2012, his focus has been entirely on artistic practice. Swiss citizenship was granted in 2015, complementing his Brazilian nationality.

Marcelot has participated in artistic residencies at FAAP in São Paulo, the SWATCH Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and programs in Berlin, Athens, London, and Assisi. His work has been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, and Italy. At the invitation of SWATCH, Marcelot took part in the 59th Venice Biennale, where his piece Lion of Venice entered the Biennale’s collection and is now permanently installed at the entrance to the Biennale Library.

Giant, 2026

Oil on canvas, 150 x 50 cm

With the extra large Chinese floor vase: CHF 6’000
Without the floor vase: CHF 3'500

Tobias, 2026 (triptych)

Three Fine Art prints (edition 1/3) on Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350 g/m2, framed with museum glass, each 60 × 40 cm

With two porcelain vases with lids: CHF 3’500
Without vases: CHF 2’700

Kiss, 2025

Oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm

With the vase: CHF 3’500
Without the vase: CHF 3’000