MARCO CASSANI’S NEW BOOK: “MARCO CASSANI”

Images courtesy of Marco Cassani

Marco Cassani: Between Ritual and Concept

Living and working in Bali since 2008, Italian artist Marco Cassani has carved out a practice that bridges conceptual art with the quiet poetry of ritual. His forthcoming monograph, Marco Cassani (Mousse Publishing, 2026) edited by Nicola Trezzi (@nicola.trezzi), features texts by Davide Quadrio (@davide_quadrio) and Michal B. Ron, captures this trajectory in a tightly edited 112-page volume. With essays, documentation, and images, the book situates Cassani’s work at the intersection of Italian art history and Balinese cultural practices, tracing how ideas of value, labour, and transformation run through his oeuvre. The new monograph book will be an important documentation of an artist whose practice bridges ritual, found material, and conceptual critique.

Marco Cassani

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Cassani is best known for his works with coins collected from Balinese temple fountains—everyday tokens of hope turned into sculptural reflections on currency, ritual, and meaning. Exhibitions such as Thousand Years in Silence (BIASA Art Ubud, 2024) and Modus (Honold Fine Art, 2018) revealed his restrained yet resonant language, one that draws as much from Giorgio Morandi’s meditative still lifes as from Duchamp’s readymade provocations.

The book crystallizes this duality, offering not just a catalogue of works but a meditation on how art can reframe notions of value.