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MARCO CINGOLANI
born 1961 in Como, Italy
After Chia, Clemente, Cucchi and
Palladino, Marco Cingolani is one of the artists that belong to the younger generations of Italian artists
with international success and important collectors. He is a
Professor at the Carrara Academy of Art in Bergamo, and he lives
and works in Milan. He employs literary and religious themes in
his encounter with love and passion, as he explains: "Being in
love is the privileged state of the artist, and loving art
involves changing the state of a painting. Some of my figures only
have interest for the beauty and the aroma of women. The entire
world revolves around Claudia Cardinale; men idolise her,
fighting and killing each other under the clear blue sky just
for one glance of her. The Duke of Mantua inspires my brush to
take up red and yellow pigment, and the despair of Rigoletto
captures the dark shadows."
Marco Cingolani is convinced that the secret of painting must be
discovered newly by each generation. As an Italian he may be
best placed to perceive this; the tradition of painting has
never been called into question there, so the quality of
painting is discussed in more depth. He employs the themes of
love and passion to demonstrate his thesis about the eternal
nature of painting - love is both completely new and timeless,
eternal, for all who experience it. A cosmopolitan painter,
Cingolani relishes conversation with fellow-artists, and he is
drawn to Germany by philosophical and artistic paths which
Italian and German painters have shared for hundreds of years.
He brings Italian lightness to Germany and an execution in vivid
colours of the great human dramas that touch us in Verdi's
operas.