Cane Project:
(Madrid) - 2010 Registration
of images and testimonies of the house during
2009 in Madrid turned on social transformations
in Latin America. Organized by the Department
of Urban Anthropology of the UAM. The video
concept proposes to use emotion as a tool for
social development and art as a bridge builder.
Director: Alejandro Marmo.
Rust and Discard
(2004) Fifteen minutes
documentary that goes over the work of sculptor
Alejandro Marmo, who transforms scrap and discarded
materials from industries into poetry. He gives
life to abandonment and rust and rescues them
from death and oblivion.
Directed by Javier Hick.
A Metaphor
For Development (2003-2004-2005) Università
di Bologna
An audio-visual approach to Alejandro Marmo’s
works in public places and 120 pictures of his
work. Edited by Università di Bologna’s
office in Buenos Aires, it displays a metaphor
for industrial development and social inclusion
through art.
Cartoneros
(2007) This video reconstructs
the recycling process that thousands of people
that pick up and classify garbage carry out
every day. The director has chosen Alejandro
Marmo to reveal his determination to work for
social transformation.
Directed by Ernesto Livon-Grosman. www.cartonerosdoc.com
Another Possible
Scene (2006) Short documentary.
It is a look ahead at the first stage of the
project “Social inclusion through art”,
carried out by Alejandro Marmo and Camila Alvarez
during the school year 2006. The video shows
the arrival of the artist’s works to a
school in Tigre, the trip by boat with the kids
and the making of a collective piece of work
along the successive meetings, that pictures
different aspects of life at the island. The
final documentary is being edited at present.
Directed by Camila Alvarez.
Your Scar Aches
with Pleasure
(2007) It is the portrait of
an artist’s life: Alejandro Marmo’s
life, his history, his roots, Italy, Argentina...
The testimony of an important part of his indefatigable
career as a sublime artist.
Directed by Giorgio Varano.
Praxis Socioestética
(2008) Records on the anthropological
work of Alejandro Marmo as a metaphor for inclusion
through the arts in various destinations such
as Central America, Japan, New York, Buenos
Aires, Province of Chaco Province of Salta.
Address Dr. Marian Moya
Experimento Nada
(2009) A sector of workers
after 2001 says the possibility of restoring
a collapsed factory in the industrial crisis.
A rock band that travels to the conventional
scenarios and a visual artist who tries to translate
the testimony of anthropological research in
the same universe, weaving an audiovisual partner
aesthetic praxis of cultural, metaphorical,
musical production and the diversity of an area
of suburban in the province of Buenos Aires.
Cooperative of the constituents in promoting
the facilities of its plant, the party of Vicente
López, various cultural activities.
Mil Hormigas located parallel to the constant
quest to get your music to merge the different
musical rhythms such as rock, tango and reggae.
Script, text, and Director: Alejandro Marmo
Collaboration: Freddy Sanchez, Sebastian Klein
and Dr. Marian Moya
Camera: Ariel Garcia
Post: Paul Calcagno
Alejandro Marmo.
Evita en la Av. 9 de julio,
mural de acero en las fachadas del ex MOP.
Agencia EFE
Tokyo, Oct 6 (EFE) .- The Argentine artist in
Tokyo Alejandro Marmo began his project of social
integration "Hugs healers" with elders
and children in Japan, aiming to unite through
the "universal language of art" two
distant cultures.
Vienna (Austria), May 19 (EFE)
.- (Image: Jordi Kuhs) .- Create works of art
made from industrial waste with the aim of building
bridges between continents and cultures, is the
bet that the Argentine artist Alejandro Marmo
has brought to Vienna, central European city of
great cultural tradition. The Buenos Aires 39
years of age is in this city since early May,
a grant from the "quartier21", one of
the most prestigious art institutions in the Alpine
republic. During his stay, Marmo works in the
WUK alternative cultural center, which is creating
a large sculpture, a praying mantis about two
meters high made of scrap metal donated by an
Austrian industrial company.
The purpose is to initiate
"an insect theme park to build a recreational
space for employees and share with citizens a
bridge to art," the Argentine told Efe in
the Austrian capital, where he remained until
the end of July. To mark the celebrations of the
bicentenary of the independence of Argentina,
the Cultural Forum will present Novomatic today
from a photo exhibit of his work consists of sculptures,
paintings and photographs.