PAST CONVERSATION

‘THE BIG FLAT NOW’: Marco Scozzaro in Conversation with Flyweight Projects

To commemorate Marco Scozzaro’s window installation, THE BIG FLAT NOW, BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York is pleased to host a conversation between artist Marco Scozzaro and curators Jesse Cesario and Clare Torina of Flyweight Projects on September 16, at 6pm. THE BIG FLAT NOW was on view until September 30, 2020.

This conversation is free to attend and will take place over zoom.

ABOUT MARCO SCOZZARO

Marco Scozzaro is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. He earned his MA in Psychology with a concentration in Visual Perception from the University of Parma, Italy, and a post baccalaureate certificate in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, NY. He has had solo shows at Baxter St, NY, and Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy; and two-person shows at Ed Varie, NY; and Galerie Villa des Tourelles, Paris. Group shows and screenings include BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Aperture Foundation, NY; and Lishui Photography Festival, China, among others. Scozzaro is a recipient of the NYSCA Experimental Media and Film grant from the Institute of Electronic Arts at Alfred University, NY; a Media Art Fellowship from BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; an artist residency from Signal Culture, Owego, NY; a Workspace Residency from the Camera Club of New York, NY; and an AIM fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY. He is an adjunct faculty member at SVA, NY, and has been visiting artist at Parsons, NY, guest critic at Cooper Union, NY, and mentor for the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in Artnet, Der Greif, GUP, and Osmos, and has been commissioned by The New York Times, Vogue Italia, GQ, and Vice, among others.

ABOUT FLYWEIGHT PROJECTS

Created in 2018, Flyweight Projects is a  24″ x 28″ x 20″ scale exhibition space for solo projects organized by artists Clare Torina and Jesse Cesario. The stationary gallery is located in an over-the-closet nook in their Brooklyn, New York apartment. There is also a mobile version of the gallery (presented here) that moves around the city in collaboration with other galleries, curators, and collectors.