Andrea Di Marco

Born in Palermo in 1970. Lives in Palermo

Andrea Di Marco's pictorial research takes its start from paintings made on stratified supports, such as colored fabrics or old wallpaper. His work is characterized by the contamination of highly different genres, including comic books, pop culture images, and sixteenth-seventeenth century engravings, which are always associated with a glimpse of current reality, related in fragments with a predilection for frontal vision. Since 2000 Di Marco's has been working from photographs, which he later develops with a ‘oily' material-laden sort of painting. The subjects he depicts belong to what he defines as "modern archaeology." Desolated corners of the outskirts, where one finds cars, trucks, apparently abandoned objects, and contemporary ruins without a trace of human presence, suggest a sense of decadence and melancholy and often take on metaphysical and surreal color tones. (A.T.)