Marco Battaglini

San Jose, Costa Rica

About Marco Battaglini

Through a subtle interplay of multiple realities overlapping in the chronotope, Battaglini evidences the contradictions in mental models about the temporal contrast (chronological), and the cultural and linguistic barriers. Compositions which at first seem 'logicals', immediately reveal temporal and spatial limitations that are disruptive in the interpretation of reality. Battaglini invites us to think that in today's global village, with the 'democratization' of culture, the evolution of knowledge, information immediacy, immersed in the heterogeneity, the Patchwork Culture forces us to confront with a need understanding beyond our geographical boundaries of time. Probably the uniqueness of the Italian artist Marco Battaglini is to conceptualize the possible coexistence of the ideals of classical beauty with the anti-aesthetic, the combination of the divine and refined with the vulgar, through a composition that can complement different realities in an eternal instant. His research of multidimensionality leads him to overlap different temporal, spatial and cultural realities, where everything seems to make sense… This is ultimately the Battaglini’s purpose: remove barriers that distort the perception of reality.

Education:

Studies
1983-88 Liceo Artistico di Verona, Italia.
1988-93 Universita di Venezia, I.U.A.V. Italia.
1991-94 Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia, Italia.

Exhibitions:

Exhibitions
2010 LACDA - Feed_Back Los Angeles, USA.
2010 Scope Basel, Switzerland. I Think, Therefore I am Dangerous
2011 Art Dubai, Reality Versus Imagination and Illusion (installation)
2012 Human Rights - Art from World, curated by Roberto Ronca.
2012 Art takes Times Square - Artist wanted
2012 YOUnite Tour - The Nomadic Project
2013 Art Cologne – Booth E 009
2013 Art Dubai, The Global Village
2014 Saatchi Gallery – 2nd floor, Screen room
2014 The Vendue – "I See Pattern". Charleston, South Carolina.
2015 Tokyo International Art Fair - Opening Show
2015 Krause Gallery - New York - Emerging to Established
2015 Saatchi Gallery - "Installations" - Sc. Project
2015 Scope Miami – Ministry of walls, Booth E 25
w/Banksy and Blek le rat
2016 Caletas Art Palace - ESTHETIC UPRISING. Costa Rica
2016 LILAC Gallery – Fifth Ave. NYC
2016 EDEN Gallery – Soho – Madison Ave. NYC
2017 Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona – Italia.
Curated by Giuseppe Ussani d’Escobar
2017 Scope Miami – Miami, USA
2017 Royal Monceau Palace, Art District Gallery – Paris