Artist

Marco Gizzi was born in Ceccano, province of Frosinone (Italy) in 1959 - where he still lives and works. He first started his artistic experience in 1979.

Assimilated and revised during years, his painting is a pitch of disparate sedimentations in which two complementary periods emerge, establishing two distinct stages in the itinerary of the exhibition.

The first period (1979-1989) is characterized by a paradigmatic painting, dizzy and dynamic, made by, weaved by a seductive silence and charming. A sophisticated light displays stormy and bruise surfaces filled with an illogical expectation. With an unseen path which follows surrealistic themes such as the ones in the work of Max Ernst, Marco Gizzi designs his pictures with ''mutant'' objects which are characterized by metempsychosis.

The second period (1989-2006) shows Marco Gizzi's work being a sublimation of the shapes: noiseless, whispered and almost sprayed on the canvas. From the reigns of the unreal landscape, full of marine abyss and slides, build with unconventional spaces, we arrive in the 1990 at an evolution that symbolized a consciousness rising from natural feelings. Like a shipwreck without return, the look of the spectator looses itself in a sublime and melancholic infinite. But if the infinite reason it is necessary use of alternative instruments. The reality is hieroglyph of spirit and things are symbols of something that stays beyond reality. Marco Gizzi teaches us that art is the favourite instrument of knowledge. (Revision by: Villa Comunale di Frosinone)

Gizzi’s art is not an imitation of reality but a metaphor of the “real”. He doesn’t reflect the “visible” but what is concealed within the ordinary objects represented: Gizzi’s pieces astound its viewers by the intricate detail, mastery of depth, plasticity and transparency.

Considering Gizzi’s style and pictorial poetry, one would be drawn to assimilate his style to hyperrealism. Yet, despite his paintings being realistic, the viewer would always be left with a sense of both astonishment and surprise as if looking at the objects depicted for the first time. In fact, Gizzi’s realism records nature as dynamic and living, attempting to reveal the essence and thus the secrets hidden inside an object.

Thus, he’d continue his contemplations and studies beyond the surface; he’d explore the subject’s relationship to its place (or often its “non-place”), its surrounding space and light. Gizzi’s settings would always aspire a perfect balance and symmetry between all elements, creating a sacred composition in which the still-life objects continue to live. This impact is enforced by the use of colour and composition, which assure that his paintings never appear either cold or distant, but visually convey the mood proposed by his imagination.

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1980/1982
- Solo exhibitions in Frosinone

1984
- ART-EXPO Brescia

1986/ 1988
- Prize in painting:
- Promoroma LA TERRA, LA VITE, IL VINO (EARTH,GRAPEVINE AND WINE)
- Art Expo –Bologna
- Art Rome: Palace of Congress –Rome

1989
- Tokyo, Japan

1991
- INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUITATEN UND KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG, Essen Germany

1995/1999
Important exhibitions in Florence:
- ART AND CONVIVIUM, Saloni Fini- Arce(Fl)
- The City hall of Arpino (Fl)
- Dante’s house in Abruzzo. Castello Gizzi-Torre de’ Passeri (PE)