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Marco Tamburro

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Certificate of Authenticity: certificate issued by the artist

Signature: in original on the back of the canvas

Edition: unique

Year: 2024

SUPPORT: canvas

TECHNIQUE: mixed

DIMENSIONS: 115 cm x 70 cm

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Description by the gallery owner

At the center of the scene, a headless human figure stands out on a darkly colored chessboard. The man, reduced to a chess piece, finds himself torn between a lost identity and his new role as an expendable piece. His posture is rigid, almost mechanical, as if he had no control over his actions, guided by an invisible force.
This headless figure symbolizes the loss of reason or autonomy, a man transformed into a tool in a larger game. The fact that he is "forced" to confront the opponent's pawns recalls the inevitable struggle of life, where every move has consequences and there are no escape routes. The meaning of this game is questionable:
Who moves the pieces? Is it fate? Is it a higher force? Is it man himself, a prisoner of his own unconscious choices and actions?
Is it possible to escape the chessboard? Or are we all destined to play a game whose outcome is unknown to us?
The painting doesn't offer definitive answers, but invites the viewer to reflect. The chessboard becomes a metaphor for life, where every decision is a movement, every choice has weight, and "winning" is often ambiguous. Perhaps it's not about checkmating, but about understanding that we are both players and pawns in this complex dynamic.

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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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