Marco Cingolani, THE OBEDIENCE ROOM

Room 17

«The basic instinct of the artist is to change the painting. Society already takes care of changing subjects and images, but changing painting is difficult, which is why the artist is needed. So the painter becomes an Associate of God in the mystery of creation.»
Marco Cingolani

«Marco Cingolani is a painter who throughout his life has placed his existence under the sign and weight of a constant swirling manual skill, at the service of a painting that has never renounced its own specific weight. Cingolani’s painting is made up of thick, dense brushstrokes, dark colours and strong materials. He seeks to construct a tactile world of the imaginary, where the figures acquire a three-dimensionality made entirely of paint, flesh and skin incorporated into the bed of the painting. Because the painting is the specific honeycomb within which the images move, filled with the substance of sign and colour. Cosmic painting grasps individual details and drops them into the flow of colour as a continuous becoming.»
Achille Bonito Oliva

THE ARTIST

Marco Cingolani was born in Como in 1961 and moved to Milan at a very young age, where he now lives and works. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He made his debut in 1989 at the Galleria Diagramma in Milan with the exhibition Liquidare Duchamp. In 1993 he exhibited in the Pentagono exhibition at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena, a gallery with which he established a close working relationship that was confirmed with two personal exhibitions: Terra e cielo da sempre uniti in 1995 and Di che colore sono? 51 quadri nuovi sui colori del Potere in 2007. After participating in numerous group exhibitions, including Una scena emergente in 1991 at the Museo Pecci in Prato and Due o tre cose che so di loro at the PAC in Milan in 1998, he was given important anthological exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as: Big – Bang at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Stropicciarsi gli occhi at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Turin in 2002 and La lunga notte di Paparazzo at Palazzo della Ragione in Mantua in 2003. A very active artist in the Italian cultural context, in 2004 he created a series of exhibitions under the title Senza (Without): Senza Famiglia (Without Family), Senza Freni (Without Brakes), Senza Trucco (Without Trick), Senza Dubbio (Without Doubt), Senza Veli(Without Veils), Senza Tempo (Without Time), held in public spaces and private galleries with the aim of reflecting on the current situation of art. Marco Cingolani’s last solo exhibition, Percorsi della fede, was held in 2009 at the Boxart Gallery in Verona. Three of his large works were exhibited in the Italian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009.