Marco Tirelli lives and works between Rome and Spoleto. He the Accademia Nazionale of San Luca’s president and member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi of the Pantheon. Born in Rome in 1956, he grew up in the Swiss Institute context, where his father worked. There, he associated with intellectuals and artists, including Alighiero Boetti, who had a favourable influence over his cultural development in a climate of international exchange. Tirelli graduated in scenography with Toti Scialoja at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he began exhibiting his works in the late 1970s, soon moving to the spaces of the Ex Pastificio Cerere, in San Lorenzo (Rome), together with the so-called Nuova Scuola Romana artists: Nunzio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Bruno Ceccobelli and Giuseppe Gallo. Marco Tirelli’s art is the result of an abstraction process, which culminates in illusory and allegorical forms, often minimal. They evoke imaginary realities and dreamlike recollections, also intimate and biographical, in a time continuum in which images of the past blend with motifs of the present in melancholy fluidity.

The shapes – sculpted or drawn – are enigmatic, in the balance between perception and abstraction, lost in undefined auras, while light and shadow mark the mysterious experience of the perception of things and space.
Marco Tirelli’s work has been exhibited in important international institutions. Among the solo shows: House of Art, Ceské Budejovice (2020); Palazzi Comunali, Todi (2017); MAMC, Saint-Etienne Métropole (2016); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2016); Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2015, 2010); Fondazione Pescheria-Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro (2014); Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (2013); Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (2013); MACRO, Rome (2012); Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (2012); Gori Collection/Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia (2009); Casa del Cinema, Rome (2007); Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (2003); Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (2002); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin (1998); Galleria Civica, Modena (1992, 1990); American Academy, Rome (1990). He exhibited for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 1982; in 1993 a whole room was dedicated to him, and in 2013 he created a huge installation for the Italian Pavilion curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.

Among his participations in international art exhibitions: Biennale of Sydney (1990); San Paolo Biennial (1991); Prospect ’93 at the Frankfurt Kunsthalle (1993); Quadriennale, Rome (1986, 1996).
His collaboration with Galleria Fumagalli began with the first solo exhibition in 2003, followed by a monograph with texts by Klaus Wolbert, Peter Weiermaier and Giorgio Verzotti, published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt and at Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna. In 2021 Tirelli’s works were selected by critic Lóránd Hegyi to be included in the first and the seventh group shows of the program “MY30YEARS – Coherency in Diversity”, which celebrates Annamaria Maggi’s 30-year-long career at the helm of the Gallery.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

MARCO TIRELLI

Opening 15 February 2003
18 February to 28 March 2003

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Architettura – Spazialità – Artefatto

Opening 26 May 2021
26 May to 30 July 2021

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Visioni. 20 artisti a Sant’Agostino

Opening 8 April 2005
9 April to 11 June 2005

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AAVV:30

Opening 27 November 2004
30 November 2004 to 20 January 2005

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