FANCULO Artwork

Marco Battaglini Marco Battaglini (1969) is an Italian artist born in Verona. He specializes in painting (using mixed techniques), pictorial appropriationism, high relief and sculpture. He has lived in several countries, finally settling down in Costa Rica, where he has been living since 1994. During his early years, he saw his rebellious essence fueled by his family’s mental openness: he was blessed by growing within a freethinking nucleus, his parents found in him an energetic influx that they would not repress but, on the contrary, foment. Hence, while his transmuting spirit started showing a subversive personality, they accepted with wisdom the way his instinct was leading to: it was not necessary to divert a boat that already knew the location of its safe harbor. At the age of thirteen, he entered the Liceo Artistico di Verona where he finally found his vocation. Here, he focused and channeled the stream of his gifts towards a clearly defined goal. Soon after, he graduated from the Università di Venezia (I.U.A.V.) and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. He has exhibited his work in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Tokyo, Colonia, San José, Basel and Dubai, among others. ARTPOPCLASSIC – an eye-opening recontextualization towards new paradigms Marco Battaglini’s artistic work creates a pleasant wound in the chronotope. Through an everdialoguing play between classical elements and contemporary urban scenes, the Italian artist reveals a “coincidentia oppositorum”, intrinsic aspect of the great myths where the different poles of duality meet, creating a playful space to converse and reinterpret reality. The contrast that is immediately evident reveals the contradictions of modernity, revealing its inconsistencies, commonly narrowed and framed by the mental models that have become profoundly ingrained in the status quo.