Vernissage:
Venerdì 20/10/2017 ore 18:00
Tekè Gallery
Via Santa Maria 13, Carrara (MS)
Exhibition duration: dal 20/10/2017 al 26/11/2017
It's always a pleasure to write a text to present a new exhibition and a new artist.
An even greater pleasure when it is the first solo show of an emerging but highly talented illustrator like Marco Filicio Marinangeli A.K.A. Tigno.
Tigno’s unmistakable style is based on the fusion between a grotesque hyperrealism and detailed, meticulously crafted scientific illustrations, combined with a careful experimentation of techniques and textures that are always different and constantly evolving.
Pencils, inks, and watercolors jump from one panel to another creating bizarre figures; chimeras born from the fusion of natural elements, fantastic elements, and everyday objects that give life to a parallel universe.
Despite his young age (born in 1990), Marco has already accumulated an extensive body of work which we present in the gallery almost as if it were the exhibition of a travel notebook in some alien world or perhaps a post-atomic future but certainly populated by mutants resulting from random (or not) genetic crossovers.
On one hand, the rigor of Marco’s panels strongly recalls the painstaking work carried out in the field of scientific illustration by Ernst Haeckel at the end of the nineteenth century, on the other hand we perceive a strong Dadaist attitude in creating collages of various elements, both in color and composition. A scientific study but also very graphic and choreographic, halfway between the Renaissance Cabinets of Curiosity (Wunderkammer) and the early twentieth-century Freak Shows.
The exhibition also presents the 34 original panels of the story The Crocodile by Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij published by Orecchio Acerbo in August 2017 and the 5 panels created for the (unfortunately unfinished) illustration project of the story The Good Lion by Ernest Hemingway.
This series of illustrations is the spark that triggered the need to present this young Italian talent with such a complete solo show despite it being his first official personal exhibition.
The commitment, dedication, and research carried out by Tigno should be taken as an example by all the talented young people constantly engaged in the world of illustration in Italy, not only for the precision of the work or pure aesthetic beauty, but above all because from observing the drawings we can perceive how much this artist enjoys experimenting with what he does, without necessarily taking himself too seriously and always trying to bring his research to the next level.
Bravo Tigno, even when you run naked.
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