MARCO TIRELLI
MARCO TIRELLI
Biography
Marco Tirelli lives and works between Rome and Spoleto. Born in Rome in 1956, he grew up in the Swiss Institute, where his father worked. There he associated with intellectuals and artists, including Alighiero Boetti who had a favourable influence over his cultural development in an international context. At the end of the 1970s, after graduating in scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (under the guidance of Toti Scialoja), he began exhibiting his works in the spaces of the former Pastificio Cerere in the San Lorenzo district, together with the artists of the so-called Nuova Scuola Romana: Nunzio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Bruno Ceccobelli and Giuseppe Gallo. Marco Tirelli’s art is the culmination of an intellectual process which begins with the assimilation of raw data, proceeding to ‘distil’ illusory and allegorical forms that evoke imaginary realities and dreamlike recollections. The shapes (sculpted or drawn) emerge from the shadows, lingering in the balance between perception and enigma, detached from any discernible context.
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 and Fondazione Cerere, Rome (2016), Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2015 and 2010), Fondazione Pescheria-Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro (2014), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome e Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (2013), MACRO Testaccio, Rome and 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: the 1990 Biennale of Sidney, the 1991 San Paolo Biennial, the Prospect ’93 at the Frankfurt Kunsthalle in 1993 and the Rome Quadriennales in 1986 and 1996. Marco Tirelli is a member of Accademia Nazionale of San Luca and Accademia dei Virtuosi of the Pantheon. His collaboration with Galleria Fumagalli begins with the first solo exhibition in 2003, followed by the publication of a monograph with texts by Klaus Wolbert, Peter Weiermaier and Giorgio Verzotti, published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Institute Mathildenhöe in Darmstadt and at Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. In 2021 he takes part in the exhibition program MY30YEARS – Coherency in Diversity, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, which celebrates Annamaria Maggi’s 30-year-long career at the head of the gallery. The first exhibition, Architettura – Spazialità – Artefatto, puts Marco Tirelli’s work in context with pieces by Anne & Patrick Poirier and Giuseppe Uncini.
Biography
Marco Tirelli lives and works between Rome and Spoleto. Born in Rome in 1956, he grew up in the Swiss Institute, where his father worked. There he associated with intellectuals and artists, including Alighiero Boetti who had a favourable influence over his cultural development in an international context. At the end of the 1970s, after graduating in scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (under the guidance of Toti Scialoja), he began exhibiting his works in the spaces of the former Pastificio Cerere in the San Lorenzo district, together with the artists of the so-called Nuova Scuola Romana: Nunzio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Bruno Ceccobelli and Giuseppe Gallo. Marco Tirelli’s art is the culmination of an intellectual process which begins with the assimilation of raw data, proceeding to ‘distil’ illusory and allegorical forms that evoke imaginary realities and dreamlike recollections. The shapes (sculpted or drawn) emerge from the shadows, lingering in the balance between perception and enigma, detached from any discernible context.
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 and Fondazione Cerere, Rome (2016), Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2015 and 2010), Fondazione Pescheria-Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro (2014), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome e Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (2013), MACRO Testaccio, Rome and 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: the 1990 Biennale of Sidney, the 1991 San Paolo Biennial, the Prospect ’93 at the Frankfurt Kunsthalle in 1993 and the Rome Quadriennales in 1986 and 1996. Marco Tirelli is a member of Accademia Nazionale of San Luca and Accademia dei Virtuosi of the Pantheon. His collaboration with Galleria Fumagalli begins with the first solo exhibition in 2003, followed by the publication of a monograph with texts by Klaus Wolbert, Peter Weiermaier and Giorgio Verzotti, published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Institute Mathildenhöe in Darmstadt and at Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. In 2021 he takes part in the exhibition program MY30YEARS – Coherency in Diversity, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, which celebrates Annamaria Maggi’s 30-year-long career at the head of the gallery. The first exhibition, Architettura – Spazialità – Artefatto, puts Marco Tirelli’s work in context with pieces by Anne & Patrick Poirier and Giuseppe Uncini.
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