Biography
Marcello Grassi born in Reggio Emilia in 1960, he has been interested in photography since he was a small boy. After visiting several exhibitions scheduled for Anno degli Etruschi in 1985, he designed and executed a work of visual excavation in the places, cities and necropolises of the Etruscan civilisation (in Emilia Romagna, Latium, Tuscany and Umbria). In 1999, Federico Motta Editore published the book ‘Etruria’ on the occasion of the exhibition of his photographs at the Musée Reattu of Arles.
In 1992 he was commissioned to photograph the finds of the archaeological collection kept in the Cortile and Galleria dei Marmi dei Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia. It was from this first series of commissioned images that lengthy research on the Anatomia del Tempo started.
In 1997, commissioned by the Musée Archéologique of Nice-Cimiez, he produced a series of photographs of the local site.
In 2002, the year when he started working with Fabrizio Orsi on a project on Luzzara exactly 50 years after the book Un Paese by Cesare Zavattini and Paul Strand was published. At the end of 2004 the book ‘Luzzara. Cinquant'anni e più...' published by Skira Editore was presented.
