Marco Cali
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Untitled, watercolour and gouache on paper, 29 x 42 cm, 2020
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Untitled, watercolour and gouache on paper, 29 x 42 cm, 2020
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Untitled, watercolour and gouache on paper, 29 x 42 cm, 2020
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Works on Paper
I love all sorts of imagery, from high Renaissance artworks, to cartoons, film noire, Mogul miniatures and so on. In fact, thinking about it, I really like how narratives are suggested in pictorial representation, from the play on memory that comes with photos, to how time and physical space are dealt with in paintings, graphic novels or movies.
I like to play with space and composition, especially with respect to what is figurative and what might be more abstract. There is always, for me, an element of satire and grotesque representation at least at some level. Figures are placed in relation to each other, the overall space that is there on the flat page itself as well as what is the representation itself. I like the idea that shadows and form are of course just patches of colour. I also like the fact that poses and compositions repeat themselves down the ages, much as stories and subject matter. Some works will start intentionally from an historically existing image or painting say, others will be from some encounter in my everyday life, a film even, and only after will I more consciously bring in aspects from this or that source.
Italian born but living in Britain for most of my life, amongst many things I've studied at Central Saint Martins and want to imbued my art with a personal sensibility rather then specific style.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
British Painting, Norwich Cathedral
Painting the In-Between, Bowery Arts, Leeds
2018
Her Soul's Bright Armour, Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, Kent
2017
Testcard P, Crypt Gallery, London
Contemporary Masters from Britain, Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, China
Masters from Britain, Jangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing, China
Contemporary Masters from Britain, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, China
Anything Goes?, Art Bermondsey, London
Two Places at Once, Art Licks/Olympic Park, London
Contemporary Masters from Britain, Yantai Art Museum China
2016
30x30x34, Contemporary British Painting 2016, London
Parables Displaced, Whitstable Biennale Satellite, Kent
2015
Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, Xi'an, China
Counter Plymouth, KARST, Plymouth
365 Drawings, Galerie Anières, Switzerland
Acts, Arnolfini, Bristol
Object, The Tetley, Leeds
2014
Berliner Liste, Postbanhof, Berlin Friedichshain
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About this work
Inspired from a small nearby park on a very hot summer day, comic book and late mediaeval art.
