Marco Mezzacappa @ Rome Art Week
Marco Mezzacappa
Born in Rome in 1967 and a law graduate, he has always pursued his artistic practice, including through periods spent abroad. His training is rooted in the study of classical painting and auteur comics. He has been exhibiting his work since 2002.
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Born in Rome in 1967 and a law graduate, he has always pursued his artistic practice, including through periods spent abroad in cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Munich. His artistic backgroung is rooted in the study of 16th-and 17th-century painting, combined with an interest in auter comics. After years focused on essentially figurative painting, he is currently developing a new series of works that shifts the focus to the boundary between abstraction and figuration.

Since 2002, he has exhibited in both solo and group shows, working with curators such as Ivan Quaroni e Lorenzo Cabnova. He partecipated in the 52nd and 53nd Suzzara Prize. His exhibition "Pratiche di memoria...la luce che viaggia ancora" (Memory Practices...the Light That Still Travels)- curated by Giulia Marcellini, with a critical text by Laura Catini-recently concluded at the Rocca Colonna in Castelnuovo di Porto.

He lives and works in Rome.


Events at Rome Art Week
DIS / VEILING
19-25 Oct 2026
Dis/veiling, a solo exhibition by Marco Mezzacappa, invites you to enter his painting through fragments, layers, and voids. A journey in which the gaze reassembles what the artwork leaves concealed.
Free access
Vernissage Monday 19 Oct 2026 | 18:00
Organizer Lucrezia Febo
Exposition
Contart Lab
Via Candia 25
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