Jorge Héctor Paladini - March, 1999

Marcelo Rizzo and his inquires between Science and Mystery:
There is an exhibition of the artist Marcelo Rizzo in Room C at Centro Cultural “Islas Malvinas”. He graduated as an Anthropologist in our city University, at Facultad de Ciencias Naturales and he was Raul Moneta was his teacher and the one who introduced him into painting. Rizzo finally makes his prolific search come true in a territory where science and painting touch each other’s limits. From one’s mystery, which sounds out humanity and culture territory, he gets into the other freely, and his painting covers a way on striking freedom. His colourful works make us dive into touching atmospheres, which seem to come from far away yesterdays, and together with the so well located signs which evoke past rites, Rizzo rises a movingly enchanting work, and, sometimes, of a touching magical strength. But he also remembers the thousand-year-old route that drives us to the present, and he also involves in his images references of the time he shares with us, this present to which he gives his work and faith, and this without leaving his former allusions, to which he provides a new and a fresh meaning. And to prove that there is his magnificent “ Fossilea”, graphs that bring the first tracks of the aborigine art back in that stylised animal, and in the tracks of RIZZO’s hand, in his ritual, it seems to recover a past time in which there were only seasons and days had no names.
And this choice does not mean a decline of other works, which in fact, bring to this exhibition a touching level and attracts us, mainly because of it is charged with magic and beauty.
This exhibition together with its teachings is waiting for us at Centro Cultural “Islas Malvinas”, venue 19 and 51 in our city...

 
Maria de las Mercedes Reitano - 1999

Having a singular intensity, Marcelo Rizzo’s work, describes exotic landscapes and introspective worlds. Stylistic features wander with faultless and attractive making, from hyper realism to abstract expression.  
Having magic of creation, his deep contribution is significantly appropriate to nowadays art.

 
Miguel Alzugaray 1998

Marcelo Rizzo has been a painter for a relatively short time, he is an upright example of that logic that is the one of a personal story which has subjugated his first pictorial stage; just because of that marked anthropologic experience that tinges his work. A composition, multicoloured sometimes, nevertheless it has reading and definition which reveal his trade in creating and managing colour, producing a powerful image. This promissory painter’s way has been short but fruitful.