Marco Barberio

Marco Barberio, 1971 Italy. During his life, he has always cultivated a passion for art and creativity, even without attending specialized schools. He spent his adolescence in the 80s, painting with the myth of American graffiti and pop art. In the 90s he was in the middle of the digital revolution and the birth of the Internet. Thanks to entrepreneurial intuition, the predisposition to new technologies and love for art, he founded a web company with the role of art director. In his US travels, he definitively consolidates the metropolitan subjects for his realistic paintings with references to pop icons.

I call my artistic process “sampled realism”.
The sampled realism is a way to translate an abstract idea, a state of mind of the real world and of everyday life, into an artistic representation, aiming to find a correct balancing between science and art.
Environments, metropolitan landscapes, streets and places are just opportunity to freeze the sigh of an instant, the perfect moment.
The urban landscapes into the pictorial “shots” are not just scenography, but moments of suspension, of losses of reference points. Spatiality as an element of the story is meant as an active agent of a tale. Are early stories, beginning of a m...

I never attended art school, my life has always been marked by the dualism between artistic creativity and entrepreneurial skills. I consider myself a self-taught, and as such I have always sought autonomy in my way.

2022 Arte Genova, exhibition of modern and contemporary art market, Genova, Italy
2022 Venice Art 2022, Arterminal – Venice, Italy
2021 Stencil Art Prize Touring Exhibition, Hurstville Museum Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021 Art Right Prize finalist exhibition online, Finalist exhibition 3d online artrightprize.
2020 Stencil Art Prize Touring Exhibition, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Glasshouse, Australia
2020 START Art Fair - Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 AAF - Art Fair Milano / STUDIO SUPERPIU' - Milan, Italy
2020 In-corporeo / On Art Gallery - Florence, Italy
2020 Stencil Art Prize Touring Exhibition / Gympie Regional Gallery - Gympie, Australia
2020 Stencil Art Prize Touring Exhibition / Glasshouse Regional Gallery - Glasshouse, Australia
2019 Stencil Art Prize Finalist Exhibition / Gaffa Gallery - Sydney, Austria
2019 Stencil Art Prize Touring Exhibition / Southern Buoy Studios - Mornington, Australia
2019 Arte Laguna Prize Finalist Exhibition / Arsenale di Venezia - Venice, Italy
2019 Verba Volant Scripta Manet / Archaeological Museum Olbia - Olbia, Italy
2019 Marchionni Prize finalist exhibition / Magmma Museum - Villacidro, Italy
2019 Exhibition, Arte Laguna Prize 13, Venice, Italy
2018 Atelier Macro Asilo, Macro Museum, Rome,...