Ministry -Marco Battaglini – Reality leaves a lot to the Imagination

Marco Battaglini – Reality leaves a lot to the Imagination

Studies:

• 1983-88: Liceo Artistico di Verona, Italia.
• 1988-93: Universita di Venezia, I.U.A.V. Italia.
• 1991-94: Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia, Italien.

Exhibitions:

• 2010: LACDA Feed_Back, Los Angeles
• 2010: Scope Basel, Switzerland. “Ich denke, deshalb bin ich gefährlich” (I think therefore I’m dangerous)
• 2011: Art Dubai, “Realität versus Phantasie und Illusion” (Reality versus fantasy and illusion)
• 2012: Human Rights – Art from around the World, curated by Roberto Ronca.
• 2012: Artists Wanted | Art Takes Times Square
• 2012: YOUnite Tour – The Nomadic Project
• 2013: Art Cologne – Booth E 009
• 2013: Art Dubai, the global village
• 2014: Saatchi Gallery – 2nd floor, showroom
• 2014: The Vendue Charleston, South Carolina
• 2015: Tokyo International Art Fair – Opening Show
• 2015: Krause Gallery, New York – “Emerging to Established”
• 2015: Saatchi Gallery, London

Without a doubt, the work of Marco Battaglini (born in Verona, Italy, 1969) reminds us of the anxiety inherent in Western society throughout the 21st century. This artist’s work exposes us to an aesthetic shock, a style laced with eclecticism and a touch of humour that brings a smile to the viewer’s face while raising questions about the dogma that underlies current artistic and social trends.

Throughout his artistic career, Battaglini has maintained a complex concept of the effect of reality by approaching it from its basis in perception and coming close to the multidimensionality of existence. His aim was to expose the contradictions inherent in human existence by demonstrating the power of imagination through his glimpse at the reality that surrounds us – a reality that sometimes insists on playing tricks on our perception.

Here we have an artist who pays particular attention to the notions of time and space, viewing them as fictional entities and showing us that their value and weight in our daily lives are in fact relatively relative. With this modus operandi of taking away reality and giving it back to us in the tangible form of art, we are offered the opportunity to see reality from a very different perspective.

Battaglini’s insistence on laying the inherent relativity of our lives is a fundamental feature of the work presented in his compositions.
These compositions capture the essence of an artist whose desire to destroy the conventions of perceptible reality is combined with a passion for art and an interest in a variety of genres. Thus, the artist projects to us his own personal universe, capable of immersing the viewer in reflection on a wide range of subjects, from the concept of artistic expression to the very notion of individual human existence.