Marcell Piti
Profile, 2017
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My work entitled 'Public Image', with which I introduce myself on MyMuseum, is a story of a virtual journey that I made with the help of Google Earth. I wanted to create a fictional portrait from cities where I've never been before and make a distinct book format from the classical travel guides. I found a plenty of interesting stories around the world using street view mode while I was lurking around buildings and people. After turning the images black and white then negative the pictures became homogeneous and got a new meaning. Besides the documentary perspective I realised that the medium itself has a concrete vision of the present through the eyes of a sociologist. Although I took the pictures but under the control of the program what turned people anonymus using an algorithm to make everyone faceless. From this point of view this series of books demonstrate the status quo.
Date of birth: 25th January, 1990
Place of birth: Szentes (HUN)
Currently lives and works in Budapest (HUN)
EDUCATION
2015- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Photography MA, Budapest
2010-2013 University of Kaposvár; Photography BA
2008-2010 Alternatív Közgazdasági Gimnázium, Applied Photographer, Budapest
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Hungarion Pavilion at Expo Milano –series of Public Image (ITA)
2015 Mai Manó House, Budapest –series of Public Image (HUN)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Art Photo Budapest 2019, Budapest (HUN)
2019. Marcell PITI: nem nagyon bírjuk egymást a falakkal, Három Holló, Budapest, Pécs, Szeged, Győr, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza (HUN)
2018 MIA International Photography and moving image art fair - Milan (ITA)
2016 Photobook 2.0 with FFS, Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest (HUN)
2016 OFF Festival, FFS, Bratislava (SK)
2015 Document, Copy, Fake, Fuga Gallery, Budapest (HUN)
2014 Second Floor –Cluj Napoca, Hungarian Days Festival (RO)
2014 Diploma exhibition; Art Bázis, Budapest (HUN)
2013 FFS: What a wonder? What’s that?; N6N7 Festival, Budapest (HUN)
2012 Random exhibition, Mai Manó House, Budapest (HUN)
2011 Studio of Young Photographers (FFS): Reality-fictions, ArtBázis, Budapest (HUN)
2011 Biennial in Dunaújváros (HUN)
Public Image Series, 2015
Terra No.3, 2015
