Flavio De Marco

Flavio de Marco (Lecce, 1975) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and currently he lives and works in Berlin. The artist’s research focuses on the landscape: works are figurative and abstract at the same time, as the relationship among the single elements of the work is not always clear. He utilizes the computer screen as a frame to depict today’s world and investigates this virtual space as a new model for painting: the flat and immaterial horizon of the screen replaces a three-dimensional reality with which the language of painting has always been challenged. The physical depth created by Renaissance masters vanishes, replaced by transitory two-dimensional images, with windows opening onto each other, compressing the space into close-range viewing on screen, the precariousness of a world reduced to a digital existence. His first exhibition took place in 1999; then, several solo show were displayed in Italy and abroad: we can mention Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlino; Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam; Estorick Collection of Modern Art and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Museum Frieder Burdan / Salon Berlin, Berlin; Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara. Nowadays his works belong to important private and public collections.

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