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​​Statement

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My work investigates the relationship between matter, light, and perception through a visual language grounded in abstraction and shaped by geological structures such as fissures and fractures. In my practice, these forms operate not only as spatial constructs but as sites of tension, where rupture and continuity converge, evoking conditions of fragility, instability, and transformation inherent to both material and human experience.

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Through the articulation of void, luminosity, and structural disruption, I construct perceptual thresholds in which the boundaries between presence and dissolution are destabilized. Rather than representing landscape, I reconfigure it as a field of experience, where processes of fragmentation and emergence give rise to expanded states of awareness.

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Biography​

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Mareo (Mario Rodríguez Echeverry, b. 1981) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice operates at the intersection of abstraction, landscape, and spatial perception. Born in Mexico City, raised in Colombia, and based in Barcelona, he works across painting, sculpture, digital media, and large-scale installation.

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His work investigates the relationship between matter, light, and perception through a visual language informed by geological structures such as fissures, fractures, and stratified formations. Engaging these elements as both formal and conceptual frameworks, he constructs spatial environments in which void, luminosity, and structural disruption function as generative forces. Within these configurations, tensions emerge between presence and dissolution, material density and immaterial phenomena, giving rise to perceptual thresholds and states of transformation.

Across media, Mareo reconfigures landscape as a field of experience rather than representation, where processes of fragmentation and emergence unfold as conditions that resonate with both material and human experience.

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Over the past decade, Mareo has presented sixteen solo exhibitions and participated in numerous international fairs, festivals, and art projects across North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Notable projects include the land art initiative Arte nel Bosco in Italy (2016), Viaggio at Palazzo Ferrero (2018), Carré Latin at the Palais Royal in Paris (2018), the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival (2018 and 2019), Illumia in Miami (2021), and Portals, a solo exhibition featuring four installations at Valletta Contemporary, Malta (2021). In 2022, he presented a site-specific installation for the Istanbul Triennial in a historic fortress  and exhibited a large-scale installation at the Times Art Museum in Beijing. In 2024, he created a sixty-meter-high light installation at a former power plant for the Inota Festival in Hungary and inaugurated a solo exhibition at LOAD Digital Art Gallery in Barcelona. In 2025, he received the ROOM Diseño Award in the Art category at Matadero Madrid, and in 2026 he will inaugurate a permanent large-scale installation at the Black Gold Museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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His work is held in institutional collections including Palazzo Ferrero, META Foundation, and the Black Gold Museum, and has been featured in a range of international publications, including MONOPOL Magazine, STIR, and EXIT.

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