was born in Benevento in 1987.
He discovered his passion for visual arts in 2009 while studying computer engineering, which led him to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 2014 he received a scholarship from the Hochschulefur Grafik und Buchkunst Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. After his experience in Germany, he returned to Italy and graduated with honors in Scenography with the thesis entitled “Arteterna”. He concluded his academic career with a master’s degree with honors in Painting with the study “HolographyA: The importance of information contained in the work of art”. He decided to continue his education abroad, living in Holland for two years where he furthered his studies on art and contemporary society. Today he lives between Benevento, Rome and Amsterdam.
The use of traditional techniques forms the basis of his artistic background and his first artistic creations. He believes his first artistically-significant large-scale works is the series dedicated to Icarus, intended as an experience of an individual’s jump into the air, and the cycle Thalassia, both of which were selected in the first major personal exhibition, “Acquaria”,at the Rocca dei Rettori in Benevento. A similar joy of motion is transmitted to rotation on itself, like a dancing top, by Derviscio Tourner, which was later filmed in a sequence of frames, which became a video. This technique was used for the work “26 years”, which shows the path of an Olympic ski jumper,for which he was awarded in the ‘Art and Sport”’ competition which paid homage to the Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014. It was during the same year he exhibited the prestigious personal “*AILATI”, curated by Gerardo de Simone at the Reggia di Quisisana in Castellammare di Stabia (NA). In December 2014 he exhibited at Madre, (Museo d’Arte contemporanea Donnaregina – Naples) and was among the finalists of the “Show_Yourself@Madre” competition. In 2015 the solo exhibition Conjunction infinite time launched at the Dafna Gallery in Naples. 2015 continued the cycle of personal exhibitions with “MICROMACROCOSMI”, curated by Gerardo de Simone in the Gallery Nuvole Volanti, Castelfalfi Montaione (FI). In December of the same year, the Toscana Resort Castelfalfi launched the “reLive” commission, with Marco participating in the Rolls-Royce Strive for Perfection exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
In 2016, he collaborates with Sky 3D and Magnitudo, creating nine paintings used for a 3D reconstruction. The first was used in movie “Raffaello – Il principe delle arti” to depict what the Sistine Chapel of 1519 migh thave looked like. Two years later, he created drawings of the Transport of David to Palazzo Vecchio for the movie “Michelangelo – Infinito” – works that are currently exhibited at the new Michelangelo Museum – Villa Fabbricotti La Padula in Carrara. In the same year he worked with Germano Serafini on the duo Romano|Serafini, exhibiting their first solo show at the contemporary art centre Trebisonda in Perugia with “24:24 Epiphania”. Since 2019, he has organised contemporary art workshops covering a variety of subject areas for students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He also became Artistic Director of Parisii Luxury Relais Rome, where he and opened his solo exhibition, “Cànone bianco”.
During his artistic career, Romano has concentrated his research on the development of his own imaginative abilities and painting skills, starting from the energetic divisionist and futurist brushstrokes, and reaching, by extension, the use of video. The interconnection of the fields of research he explored led him to develop his expressive urgency in a varied form. This is where his interest in experimenting with the medium of installation came about. Drawing on the avant-garde of the second half of the twentieth century, he focuses his analysis on the interaction with space and the viewer. The result is a fruitful philosophical speculation in constant dialogue with the world, science and contemporary thoughts. In recent years, the research has led him to the series of holographic and digital installation works, also using virtual and augmented reality. In 2022 he opens in Benevento #apis+, a laboratory-gallery space that hosts contemporary art exhibitions and educational courses.
Personal Exhibitions
2023 – “A lehetetlen ami megmutatkozik/The impossible that manifests itself”, ArtEnto foundation, Budapest, Hungary (link here)
2022 – “The impossible that manifests itself”, gallery #apis+, Benevento
2019 – “Canone Bianco”, Parisii Luxury Relays, Roma (link here)
2018 – “24:24 Epiphania” (in duo, under the name of Romano|Serafini), Center for Contemporary Art
Trebisonda, Perugia
2017 – “reLive”, Castelfalfi & Nuvole Volanti, Castelfalfi Montaione, Firenze
2015 – “MICROMACROCOSMI”, curated by Gerardo de Simone, Nuvole Volanti, Castelfalfi Montaione, Firenze
2015 – “Congiunzione Tempo Infinito”, Dafna Gallery, Napoli
2014 – “AILATI*”, curated by Gerardo De Simone, Quisisana Palace, Castellammare di Stabia, Napoli
2014 – “Passaggi a sud est # 3”, curated by Antonio Petti, Teatri Sospesi, Salerno
2013 – “Napoli è un Paradiso”, by the General Consulate of Germany in Naples, PAN, Napoli
2012 – “Acquaria”, Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento
2012 – “Volo d’oltremare”,curated by Valerio Rivosecchi, Penguin Cafe, via Santa Lucia, Napoli
2010 – “Tratti eterei”, within the “Riverberi d’autore – International Brass Festival in South Italy” event, Palazzo Paolo V, Benevento
Collective Exhibitions
2023 – “Quasi Vero” curated by Studio Cervo, Napoli, (link here)
2023 – ” Cosmo” by Parisii Collection & #apis+, Roma (link here)
2022 – “Transpassing 12 artists for 3 authors”, gallery #apis+, Benevento
2021 – “Collective presso Dadun Gallery” (IV), Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
2020 – “Prima Necessita’//BASIC NECESSITIES”, a cura di Spazio y ABC Art Collective Mariangela Mincione nation.2.0, Roma
2017 – “National Art Award 2016”, Urbino
2017 – “BocsArt Cosenza”, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, Cosenza
2015 – “Strive for perfection – A celebration of design & Luxury promosso da Rolls-Royce enthusiast’club”,
Saatchi Gallery, London, England, UK
2015 – “Passaggi a sud est # 3”, curated by Antonio Petti, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno
2014 – “Show_ Yourself@Madre”, Madre Museum, Naples
2014 – “Import Export”, Hochschule fur Grafk und Buchkunst Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
2014 – “The Visual Event”, curated by Oliver Klimpel, Britt Helbig, System-Design Class, within the OFF program of the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2014, GRAPHIC DESIGN, EDUCATION & SCHOOLS event, Governor’s Place MG, Brno, Czech Republic
2014 – “Arte e sport 2014”, by the Italian National Olympic Academy, Giulio Onesti Foundation, in agreement with CONI, in homage to the XXII Olympic Winter Games of Sochi 2014, Sala delle Armi Foro Italico, Rome
2013 – “Premio Bonatto Minella”, curated by Antonio D’Amico, Villa Vallero, Rivarolo Canavese, Turin
2013 – “IV concorso di scultura Antonio Canova”, Villa Rizzardi Pojega di Negrar, Verona
2013 – “Faos”, curated by Kontias Picture Gallery, Myrina Venetian Palace and Kontias Picture Gallery, Limnos, Greece
2013 – “Art Forever Young”, curated by Salvatore Colantuoni 43rd Giffoni Art Film Festival edition, Saint Francis Monumental Complex, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
2013 – “Mani Tese”, curated by Gerardo De Simone and Valerio Rivosecchi, Anton Dohrn Zoological Station and Garden Gallery, Naples Fine Arts Academy
2013 – “Nina – nuova immagine napoletana”, curated by Giovanna Cassese, Marco Di Capua, Valerio Rivosecchi, Francesca Morelli, PAN, Naples
2012 – “ACADEMY PRIDE! National Art Award”, Albertina Fine Arts Academy, Turin
2012 – “Carte tinte disegni da antichi maestri”, curated by Gerardo De Simone, Garden Gallery, Naples Fine Arts Academy
2012 – “HappyArt” curated by Salvatore Colantuoni 42th Giffoni Art Film Festival edition, Saint Francis Monumental Complex, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
2012 – “Expo Arte”, 29° International Contemporary Art Fair , Bari
2012 – “Agora per le arti”, curated by Guglielmo Longobardo e Valerio Rivosecchi, Palacongressi Oltremare, Naples
2012 – “Rotary meets contemporary art”, curated by Rotary Club International – Neapolitan group, Garden Gallery, Naples Fine Arts Academy
2012 – “Visual Speeches. Ideas in Art (2nd Edition)”, Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento
2011 – “FORMS AND COLORS OF UNITED ITALY – Art and the 150th anniversary of the national unity”, curated by Francesco Ciaffi and Simone Pastor, Elsa Morante Cultural Center, Rome
2011 – “The works of Mercy”, curated by Pio Monte della Misericordia together with Madre Museum,
Naples Fine Arts Academy and the Polytechnic Artistic Association, Naples
2011 – “2011 National Arts Award”, Former Saint Carpoforo Church, Milan
2011 – “Sguardi d’oltremare”, pavilion 10, Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples
2011 – “Mother Nature”, Garden Gallery, Naples Fine Arts Academy
2011 – “Learn art … don’t put waste aside”, Palazzo Paolo V, Benevento
2010 – “Visual Speeches. Ideas in Art”, exhibition halls Rocca dei Rettori, Benevento
Awards
2014 – First prize, with “26 years”, in the “Art and sport 2014” competition, organized by the Olympic Academy Italian National, from Giulio Onesti Foundation, in agreement with CONI, in homage to the XXII Olympic Games Winter in Sochi 2014, Sala delle Armi, Foro Italico, Rome
2013 – First prize, with “Iuvenis”, in the “Art Forever Young” competition, curated by Salvatore Colantuoni, during the 43rd Giffoni Art Film Festival edition, Saint Francis Monumental Complex, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
2013 – First prize, with “Napoli è un paradiso! ” (Naples is a paradise – NdT), in the competition announced by the Consulate General of Germany in Naples, PAN, Naples
2012 – First prize, with “Thich Quang Đuc”, in the competition “Rotary meets Contemporary Art”, announced by Rotary Club International – Neapolitan group, Garden Gallery, Naples Fine Arts Academy
2011 – First prize, with “Solo per vivere” (Just to live – NdT), in the competition“The works of Mercy”, curated by Pio Monte della Misericordia together with Madre Museum, Naples Fine Arts Academy and the Polytechnic Artistic Association, Naples
2011 – First prize, with “Inferno canto n° 34”, in the graphic section of the competition “IV Biennale Giovani Artisti Campani ”organized by the Colosimo Institute, Naples
2009 – in the “Callisto Award” competition, Paolo V Palace, Benevento
Artistic Residences
2017 – “BocsArt Cosenza”, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, Cosenza
2015 – “MICROMACROCOSMI”, curated by Gerardo de Simone, Nuvole Volanti, Castelfalfi Montaione, Florence
2014 – “Passaggi a sud est # 3”, curated by Antonio Petti, Teatri Sospesi, Salerno
2013 – “Arte contemporanea Balcanica”, curated by Kontias Painting Gallery, Limons, Greece
2011 – “Plein Air 2011”, curated by “Fundacion Tres Culturas”, Sevilla, Spain
