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MARCO ABBAGNARA
Artist, Sculptor and Writer
ABBA – Contemporary Art & Collectible Design
Marco Abbagnara was born in Catania, Italy, in 1966. An Italian artist and writer, he has developed a distinctive artistic language through painting, sculpture and experimentation with materials.
His artistic journey has been deeply influenced by travel and encounters with different cultures and international artistic languages. Experiences in Australia, Thailand, London and New York have contributed to shaping an open, multicultural vision in which memory, identity, symbolism and transformation play a central role.
Under the artistic name ABBA, Abbagnara has developed a contemporary practice that brings together archaeology, memory and the unconscious. His works explore the ancestral dimension of human existence through hybrid figures, essential bodies and enigmatic presences suspended between archaeological artefacts and living organisms.
The circular and concentric heads evoke the Eneolithic statue-stelae of Lunigiana, Sardinia and the Mediterranean region. Rather than formal quotations, these references recover the archetypal power of ancient forms: the human figure loses its individual identity and becomes a symbol, a vessel of collective memory and a timeless testimony.
In his painting, fire, combustion and soot acquire symbolic and poetic significance. Burnt matter becomes a trace of existence, bearing witness to a transformation in which destruction and rebirth coexist. His artistic research, entitled The Beauty of Burning, explores precisely this ambiguity.
Alongside his artistic practice, Marco Abbagnara pursues his literary work, focusing on psychological thrillers, noir and mystery. He is the author of a trilogy published by Casa Editrice PATHOS, comprising Lucrezia, Purifier of Evil, The Triumph of Death and Requiem.
Throughout his career, he has taken part in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, presenting his work in cities including New York, London, Barcelona, Beijing, Paris and Venice.
Today, through ABBA Collectible Design, he develops an independent project dedicated to the creation of sculptures and contemporary art objects, conceived as presences that transcend their decorative function to become expressions of an ongoing aesthetic and conceptual investigation.
His artistic research continues to revolve around a fundamental question: what remains of human existence when time erases individual identity?