Marco Abbagnara

ABBA
The Beauty of Burning

In ABBA's work, burning becomes both sign and language.
In this chimerical and hypertrophic figure, combustion and soot are elevated to a spiritual substance, as a residue and testimony to a burning existence.
Artistic Syntax
My research arises from the encounter between archaeology, memory, and the unconscious.
My figures do not represent individuals, but presences. They are entities suspended between the archaeological find and the living organism, between what belongs to human history and what continues to emerge from its unconscious.
The disc-shaped heads recall the Aeneolithic stele statues of Lunigiana, Sardinia, and the Mediterranean. Aeneolithic statues and figurines with circular (or disc-shaped) heads are stylized human representations common throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, not as a formal reference, but as a universal archetype. In those ancient figures, I recognize an extreme synthesis of the human being: a face stripped of individual identity that becomes collective memory, ancestor worship, and the symbol of a timeless consciousness.
The threads that construct the body represent the fragility of existence and the invisible connections that bind memory, time, and energy. The golden ...

Author of thriller books "Lucrezia the Purifier of Evil" The Triumph of Death and REquiem published by Pathos publishing house

Solo exhibition Royal art lounge Varese 2004
Concorso Nazionale Cremona 20002005 Group Exhibition Agora Gallery New York 2004
Group exhibition Bloomsbury London 2006 Solo Exhibition Executive lounge Milano 2005
Group Exhibition Galeria zero Barcelona 2007
Group Exhibition Sale del Bramante Roma 2007
Group Exhibition Broadway Gallery New York 2008
Solo Exhibition art Base B Milano 2008
Group exhibition Pickled Art Centre Beijing 2009
Group Exhibition Galerie Icosahedron NY 2009
Group Exhibition Behind the Forms Chelsea Art Gallery London 2010
Group Exhibition The NY ARTS and 53rd fuori Biennale di Venezia,
SPAZIO FONDAZIONE XANTE BATTAGLIA -VENEZIA-
CASTELLO 2265 (ARSENALE BIENNALE) VENICE 2011
XANTE BATTAGLIA INCONTRA SENSIBILITA' "AUTRE"
Group Exhibition 14 - 29 April 2012
Group exhibition 1 - 14 february ARTIME GALLERY UDINE 2013
Biennale Art Brescia 2 March - 29 May 2013
Parallax ‘Art’ Fair at the Prince George New York May 11-12, 2013

Galleria D'Arte Il Melograno Livorno 29 november 25 December group exhibition 2013

Group exhibition Milano For Syria Spazio Seicentro Milano 10 - 18 January 2014
MAD Gallery Viareggio Italy Group Exhibition MAD ANIMAL FARM 12-02-2014 to 16-03...