With Silenzi d’oro, Hilde Vandaele Gallery presents the second solo exhibition in Watou by the Italian artist Mirco Marchelli.
Opening
Sunday 9 August 2026
14:00 - 18:00
The gallery is open during the exhibition
Friday - Saturday - Sunday
14:00 - 18:00
The title Silenzi d’oro refers to a state in which silence is understood not as emptiness or absence, but as an active space of attention and resonance. In these new works, Marchelli deliberately embraces a visual language of reduction and omission. His artistic gesture is akin to music and breathing: what remains unseen is often as significant as what is visibly present. The works invite a slow and attentive mode of looking, allowing nuances of material, colour and rhythm to reveal themselves gradually.
Mirco Marchelli (Novi Ligure, 1963) lives and works in Ovada, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Over the past decades, his work has been exhibited extensively throughout Italy and internationally. In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale as part of the Italian Pavilion. His oeuvre occupies a unique position at the intersection of visual art, poetry and music, distinguished by a rare sensitivity to material, memory and silence.
The gallery is closed during the summer from 20 July until 8 August.