Marco Acri

Marco Acri, born in 1986, is an architect and painter based in Napoli, south of Italy.

06/06/2026

Stars, 2025
Acrylic in canvas

100x100 CM

In Athens

02/06/2026

FOREST, 2026
Acrylic, double-sided tape, paper on canvas

CM H 50 W 50

DON’T CALL IT POST-IT

29/05/2026

“Vedi Napoli e poi muori.”
See Naples and then die — Goethe wrote it in 1787, after his first encounter with the city. The idea that Naples is so overwhelmingly alive, to have seen it is already enough.
This is the phrase hidden inside the work. Encoded line by line, invisible to those who don’t know the code, legible to those who do.
Deep terracotta. Acrylic and wax crayon pressed into canvas, layer over layer, until the surface holds both the weight of the gesture and the precision of the grid.
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Napoli, 2025
Acrylic, wax crayon on canvas — 135 × 135 cm
Hidden Message series