Flavio de Marco
most familiar - the computer screen. Grey and blue windows float on black backgrounds, as in offices everywhere.
The images appear to reference multiple sources; the aesthetic considerations of 60s minimalist painting, futurism's consideration of technology, progress and light, and in their composition, bring to mind works by American abstract painter Richard Diebenkorn.
They represent a fractal horizon, a unit in the structure of the gaze, able to reproduce all equal landscapes. The paintings problematise the picture plane, revealing and obscuring landscapes simultaneously.
The work plays with the viewer's perception and interpretation, in subject matter and chosen development, and in their physicality. The canvases are constructed to create a super flat image, by bevelling the sides in a triangular shape so that they are not visible when walking around the picture.
Flavio de Marco lives and works in Rome and Milan.
Copyright Maria Tidball-Binz
For more information on the artist http://www.flaviodemarco.it/
Artist CV
Solo Shows
2007
Souvenir Schifanoia, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea - Palazzo Massari, Ferrara
2006
Mimesi.04 che guarda Mimesi di Giulio Paolini, Galleria Pino Casagrande, Rome
Group Shows
2009
Usine des ręves, 26 cc, Rome
Obsession for Collection, University of Gloucestershire, Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham
Far From Where We Came, Aaran Gallery, Tehran
2008
La forma confligge col tempo, Galleria Maria Grazia Del Prete, Rome
Eplorazioni, Temple University, Roma
Every line is the arch of an infinite horizon, The Agency Gallery, London - A61, Colonia
Beware of the Wolf, American Academy, Rome
Vienna Biennale 08, ArtUnited, Vienna
Premio Carmen Silvestroni 2008, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlė
2007
In attesa di giudizio, MiArt, Milan
The end begins, The Hospital, London
S.P.Q.R., Galleria ArtEmbassy, Berlin
Preview, Berlin Art Fair
Generazione astratta IV, Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Le Ciminiere, Catania
Ritratto di un quadro, Galleria L.i.b.r.a., Catania
Shown by
The Agency, London
