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Marco Tamburro

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Signature: Originally signed by the artist

Edition: Unique

Year: 2024

SUPPORT: canvas

TECHNIQUE: mixed

DIMENSIONS: 130 cm x 95 cm

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Description by the gallery owner

Marco Tamburro represents urban geography. The Perugian artist erects a boundary barrier: a wall that is a chaotic cemetery of colorful images, symbols, and objects from our culture. A wall that accumulates graffiti, billboards, and vintage movie posters. The worn and faded remnants of the past are covered with eye-catching new advertisements. These overlapping posters are traces of our culture.
Tamburro's experimental collage recalls the legacy of Mimmo Rotella. Furthermore, this multi-colored composition is enriched by violent, restless, and almost hysterical pictorial marks. The expressiveness of these marks brings Tamburro's art closer to that of Emilio Vedova.
But what is the purpose of this structure?
What do we find beyond the wall: obstacles or protection?
Are they hiding something from us?
At the top of the barrier, a glimpse allows us to glimpse the unknown: a dazzling infinity that feels like freedom and purification.
Above the fractured wall, we notice shadowy figures: a jester, Pinocchio, a woman, and undefined human figures. Only they can unravel the mystery: what lies beyond? Perhaps a world far from the logic and mechanisms of our capitalist society. A new Eden-like city where happiness reigns.
Delimitation, then, seems to be a cage that confines individuals. The goal? Single-track thinking, standardization, and media bombardment. The wall is society itself, locking us inside, and through the mass media, we are stunned by a perpetually overflowing river of images.

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Marco Tamburro

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Born in Perugia in 1974. Having graduated in Architecture and Furniture at the Art Institute of his city, in 1994 he moved to Milan and enrolled in the Scenography Course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Having come into contact with the Milanese artistic environment, he began to collaborate with photographers and set designers as an assistant. Not a random choice, since Marco Tamburro has already developed a profound interest in large theatrical spaces, within which he imagines and gives shape to pictorial panels of imposing dimensions, letting his visionary imagination run wild. Tamburro remains fascinated above all by painting and its great expressive power. In an era in which we question where this artistic form is going, he is invaded by an expressive power capable of translating simple images into a means of communication. Marco Tamburro reflects on the speculation and versatility of the pictorial form, capable of interacting with other artistic languages ​​such as theatre, photography, furniture, architecture and everything needed to create a scenographic system. In Milan he exhibits for the first time: his works appear in galleries and alternative spaces of the urban fabric, linked primarily to the fashion and design environments. Always attracted to Rome for its countless artistic beauties and frenetic metropolitan life, so different from that of Milan, Tamburro moved to the capital. His passion for theater can be nourished copiously here: the artist collaborates with various theater companies, dedicates himself full time to painting, founds a cultural association that deals exclusively with visual arts and in 1999 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Arts of Rome.

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