Marco Cingolani ITA, b. 1961

Overview

"I am interested in understanding when facts become history. There are events that for my generation have meant the transition into adulthood."

Marco Cingolani (b. 1961) lives and works in Milan. He is the “master of color”. In his works, color often becomes a continuous series of overlaps, nuances and scratches, transparencies next to timbre zones, color that covers other color, adding tones and blurs. His work has always focused on the possibility to erase the normative power of media imagery, subjecting it to the radical “cure” of the Artist, being certain that Art provides a decisive point of view to read the world.

Cingolani Marco has always been fascinated by the transition from “pieces of news” to History and back, and in fact it was in this context that more than one series of artworks was born. Here we mention: the series of great oil paintings called Le Interviste (The Interviews) - in which the protagonists are oppressed by the journalists’ microphones -, the famous series dedicated to the attempt on Pope John Paul II’s life, and the tragic murder of Aldo Moro. This strong link to reality is expressed in his works by the symbolical contextualization of several elements, such as UN Security Council blue helmets, multicolored segments of Wall Street graphs, military uniforms, and political parties’ flags.

In 2009 he was among the artists invited to represent Italy at the Venice Biennale. In 2011, when he turned 50, its city of origin dedicates him an anthology diffused in three public spaces. Among several group expositions, Marco Cingolani has solo shows at the Pecci Museum in Prato, at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi (Lucca), at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, at the S.M.A.K. in Gent, and finally in Milan, at the PAC Museum.

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Works

Marco Cingolani
Astronauta Ferito, 1993
oil paint on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Marco Cingolani
Untitled, 1996
watercolor on paper
31.5 x 23 cm (53.5 x 43 cm framed)
Marco Cingolani
Il ritrovamento del corpo di Aldo Moro, 1989
oil and chalks on canvas
184 x 184 cm
Marco Cingolani
Conferenza Stampa, 1991
oil paint on canvas
100 x 100 cm
Marco Cingolani
Il Papa, 1993 circa
watercolor on paper
31 x 23 cm (53.5 x 43 cm framed)
Marco Cingolani
Perquisitemi, 1993
watercolor on paper
23.5 x 33 cm (53 x 43 cm framed)
Marco Cingolani
Riot, 1989
oil on canvas
183 x 180 cm
Marco Cingolani
Conferenza Stampa, 1993
oil paint on canvas
185 x 185 cm
Marco Cingolani
Untitled, 1993
watercolor on paper
30.5 x 23 cm (53.5 x 43 cm framed)
Marco Cingolani
Casanova, 1998
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Marco Cingolani
Il divano del paparazzo, 2004
oil paint on canvas
240 x 240 cm
Marco Cingolani
San Luca cerca di dipingere, 1999
oil on canvas
300 x 250 cm
Marco Cingolani
Intervista a Samuel Beckett, 1998
oil on canvas
185 x 185 cm
Marco Cingolani
Osservatorio, 2000
oil paint on canvas
185 x 185 cm
Marco Cingolani
Dom Perignon inventa lo champagne, 1999
oil on canvas
200 x 350 cm
Marco Cingolani
Uncanny Zone 10, 2015
oil on canvas
200 x 150 cm
Marco Cingolani
Elezioni (ovunque e comunque), 2009
acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm
Marco Cingolani
Gold Finger, 2022
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Marco Cingolani
Untitled, 2023
oil on canvas
60 x 40 cm
Marco Cingolani
Gold Rush Jack London Klondike, 2022
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Marco Cingolani
Gold Shotting, 2022
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Marco Cingolani
Golden Escape (Golden Age), 2022
oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm