Marco Abbagnara

The Beauty of Burning

In ABBA’s work, burning becomes both sign and language.
Within this chimeric and hypertrophic figure, soot rises to a spiritual substance — a residue, a testimony of an existence that burns.
Matter itself becomes memory, a reflection of a personality long consumed beneath the surface.

The artist invites a suspension: one feels gently led into a muffled, weightless space, where thought and body drift between dream and trance.
It is a pop and dissonant world — that of contemporary society — which demands that human beings react, or pretend to react, to the endless wars that surround them.
In this fragile, interior landscape emerges a slender figure, a semi-empty shell, almost a mask — a symbol of invisible struggle, of an intimate confrontation with oneself.

ABBA’s pictorial research seeks a beauty that hurts: an incomprehensible, elusive, painful beauty.
His canvases, scarred by burns and voids, narrate a mark that changes and twists but never disappears.
It is an existential déjà vu repeating endlessly, an obsessive movement that multiplies the self into countless reflections, all trapped within the mirror of the subconscious.

Through the reworking of images drawn from media streams — computers, television...

Scrittore di libri thriller “Lucrezia la Purificatrice del male” e Il trionfo della morte edito dalla casa editrice Pathos

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...