Marco Pezzotta

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Martina Simeti is pleased to present Yours Tastefully, RM Marco Pezzotta’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition’s title refers to the closing formulas of English correspondence Yours Sincerely and Yours Faithfully. This subtly altered expression points to taste as a social code: something that both signals and shapes belonging, something miswritten.

Continuing his long-standing interest on interdependence and vulnerability, Pezzotta places his mother, Annamaria, at the centre of this exhibition. Most of the pieces on view were produced in collaboration with her, interlocking his practice with her mastery of crochet, a craft historically tied to women's domestic labor and later embraced by haute couture houses. Pressed between glass discs, the crocheted forms, at once simple and intricate, hold scraps of memory from the Po Plain and become traces of a drift across generations and class, from the tastes one is born into and those acquired over time.

In the curatorial text, Oriane Durand draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s and Annie Ernaux’s writing on taste and the transfuge de classe, suggesting how the show “explores the bond with one’s parents and how it changes as conventions and tastes evolve. (…) Perhaps this is even more true when one becomes an artist, in a field where taste plays a direct role in shaping one’s practice and identity. But the exhibition also reveals what precedes taste as a means of distinction: childhood, its memories and the emotional bond that ties us to things.”

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RM Marco Pezzotta is the third iteration of a project initiated in 2015 under the name Real Madrid, later shortened to RM. Originally conceived as a collaborative platform, RM has gradually developed into an individual practice, moving away from the blurred persona that characterised its early stages. During the last decade, Pezzotta’s practice has focused on the becoming of identities and on states of illness in their relationship to language and wit. This third chapter marks a shift toward a practice engaging with the ambiguity of value, with class lonesomeness, comfort and, inevitably, with decay.

Solo exhibitions were held at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Auto Italia, London; CEC Centre d'Edition Contemporaine, Geneva; Swiss Institute, New York; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. Recently, their work has been included in group shows held at Museo Madre, Naples; Fondazione ICA Milano; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Quadriennale Roma, Rome. RM received the Swiss Art Award in 2018 and 2023. In January 2026, RM's work joined Geneva's Plainpalais as part of Neon Parallax, a project bringing neon works into public space.In 2026, the first monograph, RM Decay, was published by Distanz Verlag.

RM Marco Pezzotta lives and works in Berlin.