The work “Secano” shortlisted for the “Salou 25 Pictorial Research Award”

The jury, meeting in Barcelona and after carefully evaluating the 108 submitted dossiers, has selected my work Secano among the finalists of the 11th Salou Pictorial Research Award.
Drifts
Residency at Baladre, Balada (2025)
A behind-the-scenes journey during Noris’s stay at Baladre (Balada), the artist residency of the Lo Pati Art Centre i...
Caravaggio
This series revisits the luministic and emotional tension of chiaroscuro to reinterpret works by Caravaggio through a...
Toponymic cartography
Marco Noris’s toponymic cartographies translate walking into pictorial space. In them, the toponym ceases to function...
The route as a sign
The route—that is, the movement through space from one point to another—traces a line whose highest synthesis is a gr...
Sequere, toponyms
“Sequere, toponyms” is a work that weaves together cartography, language, and body. It consists of a paper map that b...
Sequere Maps
28 maps from the Sequere project journey. Each work corresponds to a day of walking and forms a recording device: the...
Portable landscapes
Series of micro-landscapes painted on fragments of wood recovered from the former Can Ricart industrial complex (mid-...
Montseny series
A series of vertical landscapes of Montseny built from fragments of a historical map, where the territory is reconfig...
Garzón Maps
These cartographies were made by Marco Noris during his residency at Campo Garzón, Uruguay. The pictorial process beg...
Cartography of experience
A painterly investigation grounded in the experience of walking, where the lived route is inscribed into the painting...
Impossible Territories
Pictorial research on walking, based on the Grand Tour 2020 journey organized by Nau Côclea. Impossible Territories i...
Vertical landscape
Vertical landscape rethinks our relationship with territory from the machine’s gaze—satellites, drones, orthophotos—r...
Abstract cartography
Maps, toponyms and other cartographic representations
Museu de Camins, Fórmula Mutare
The work, commissioned by the Fundació Carulla for the book La fórmula Mutare, consists of an original cartography of...
Remote locations
Remote places are both nearby and very far away. Proximity is provided by desire; distance is imposed by the difficul...
Refugium, refugia
This project takes the former internment camp of Rivesaltes as a starting point to address the historical memory of t...
Nel lieve sovrapporsi di cielo e terra
“Nel lieve sovrapporsi di cielo e terra” is conceived as a layered territory: pigment glazes, papers, frayed canvases...
Lloc, lluny, llar
Walking as an artistic practice, art as a cartography of existence. A research project based on the journey of the Gr...
Envall notebooks
These works are part of the project Enllumenant el buit (Illuminating the Void), which explores the history and repop...
Night Maps of the Coma de Burg
Night Maps of the Coma de Burg is a series of paintings made in the Lleida Pyrenees during the second phase of the pr...
Memories and Imprints of the Coma de Burg
Work created during Noris’s residency in the Pyrenean village of Farrera. It is the first work in which the artist in...
What did they do to you, son who did not manage to live? Did you manage to die?
This work is inspired by the photo “David Korn with his mother”. The title comes from a verse of Juan Gelman’s “Note ...