[artist profile]
Marco Strappato (Porto San Giorgio, 1982) is an Italian artist based in Milan. He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art London, a BFA from Brera Academy Milan and a BFA from the Fine Arts Academy of Florence. His work is engaged with a urgent reassessment of the contemporary understanding of image production and image distribution, through a multidisciplinary practice which involves collage, video, photography and installation. Mostly Strappato uses landscape images e.g. desktop wallpaper (strictly connected with the idea of desire and escapism). Those images may be used to understand the aesthetic experience in contemporaneity, amid the rhetorical discourses about the authentic and inauthentic, the exotic and familiar, the artificial and the natural.
Marco Strappato has exhibited in many institutional spaces, including at 16a Quadriennale Rome, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna Bologna, MAXXI . Museo Nazionale del XXI secolo Rome, American Academy in Rome, Royal College of Art London, Victoria Art Center Bucharest, Palazzo della Permanente Milan, Centro Pecci Prato, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Rome, Prague Biennale 5, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Urbino, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea “Osvaldo Licini” Ascoli Piceno, Fondazione del Monte Bologna.
[selected works]
That’s IT!, 2018/2019, installation view at MAMbo Bologna, Photo by E&B photo 
Au-delà, 2019, installation view at The Gallery Apart, Rome, Photo by Giorgio Benni 
Vettore Sud-Ovest, 2019, cnc milling machine on mdf, acrylic plaster, 133,5×200 cm, Photo by Giorgio Benni 
Over Yonder, 2015, installation view at The Gallery Apart (basement), Rome, Photo by Giorgio Benni 
Untitled (ground), 2015, concrete, Portoro marble Øcm, iPad (video in loop), size variable, Photo by Bruno Bani
I’ve just seen two suns on the horizon, I’m feeling comfortable anyway, 2019, photographic print on cotton paper, 50×70 cm (framed). Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Untitled (this world, other worlds), 2017, 2 synthetic bowls, Ø10 cm each. Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Flying over the white threshold, 2019, two-channel video installation, color, mute, loop. Still from video 
TU35 EXPANDED, 2017, installation view at Centro Pecci, Prato. Photo: Silvio Palladino 
Anastasis, 2017, installation view at White Crypt, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths 
Acts of God, 2017, installation view at Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare. Photo: Letizia Gatti 
Untitled (bodies, bomber, bones), 2017, burned driftwoods, rabbit glue, filler, plaster, polyester, lacquer on wooden platform, 34x44x60 cm (sculpture). Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Maybe your lens is scratched?, 2016, installation view at Slate Projects, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths 
XVI Quadriennale di Roma, 2016, installation view at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio 
Untitled(Sunset in Utopia), 2015, C-type face mounted on glass, 84,4×150 cm | Apollo and Daphne, 2015, customized locker, 2 desk mount LCD arms, jesmonite sheets, spray paint, filler, size variable. Photo: Gianluca Moscoloni 
Laocoön, customized locker, wall mount LCD arms, wall track, jesmonite sheets, 3 C-type mounted on aluminium, spray paint, filler, size variable. Photo: Damian Griffiths 
Darsena Residency #2, 2016, installation view at Galleria Massimodeluca, Venice. Photo: Gianluca Moscoloni 
Untitled (Ream, Ream), 2016, jesmonite sheets, A4 paper ream, 47x31x5,5 cm. Photo: Gianluca Moscoloni 
Untitled (***** Paper Holders), 2016, 2 metal paper holders, jesmonite sheets, 46×32 cm. Photo: Gianluca Moscoloni 
Untitled (Stack 4/6), 2016, jesmonite sheets, 30x22x7 cm. Photo: Gianluca Moscoloni 
Untitled(Gate), 2015, sheet of glass, spray paint, 80×195 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Untitled(Coming back to Rome), 2015, 3 fluorescent tube lights, 3 coloured sleeves, size variable. Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Untitled(Atmosphere/Chemistry/Ozone/Yearly concentration + Ocean/Chemistry/Dissolved Oxygen/5000 meters/Seasonal percentage), 2015, inkjet print on acetate, jpg projected on 22” screen, cable, nails, tape, size variable. Photo: Damian Griffiths 
I’ve caught Derek Jarman and Yves Klein looking at my desktop wallpaper, 2015, Rosco chroma key blue paint on 2 canvas (90×160 cm each), projection, size variable. Photo: Giorgio Benni 
Over Painted ESO#3, 2015, C-type, spray paint, 52×95 cm. Photo: Giorgio Benni
