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Robert Morat Galerie is happy to host the first exhibition by Italian visual artist and researcher Marco Maria Zanin in Germany. The exhibition project ‘Between Fields and Spirits’ has been specifically conceived for the gallery’s Berlin space, unfolding in three chapters that follow the flow of the three rooms.

In the words of the artist, ‘Between Fields and Spirits’ is ‘an exhibition project moving between artistic practice, anthropology, and relational philosophy. Through ceramics, photography, installations, and visual ethnography, the show explores earth as a symbolic, affective, and spiritual force – a space of memory, gesture, and transformation.’

The third room is dedicated to a new body of work titled ‘Conversazioni barbaricine’, a series of ethnographic-artistic devices presenting the work of the Sardinian outsider artist Gesuino Coinu and the results of an ongoing dialogue between him and Zanin. The installation combines Coinu’s works, photographic fragments, contextual traces, and textual elements drawn from their dialogue, forming a layered narrative.

Marco Maria Zanin (*1983, Padua, Italy) is an artist and academic researcher whose practice lies at the crossroads of photography, contemporary art, anthropology, and social engagement. His career includes solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Casa dei Tre Oci (Venice), Pivô – Arte e Pesquisa (São Paulo), as well as collaborations with international platforms including Fondazione Cologni and the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon. He is the founder of Humus Interdisciplinary, a platform dedicated to artistic research in rural territories. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at ISCTE/NOVA University in Lisbon, focusing on material culture and the ethnographic museum as a relational and intercultural laboratory.

Marco Maria Zanin lives and works between Padua and São Paulo, Brazil.

The ceramic works were realised under the technical supervision of Mosca Bianca Ceramics and Mialmart, and the ‘Auto-poiesi barbaricina’ structures were created in partnership with Tuorlo SNC.

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