Antonio Marchetti Lamera
Antonio Marchetti Lamera, born in Bergamo in 1964, lives and works in Torre Pallavicina (BG). He attended the State Artistic High School of Bergamo e, afterwards, he graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1986.
His research makes use exclusively of painting and drawing, which in his practice are the effective and punctual means to synthesize and recompose the images that come from the artist's endless photographic archive.
His painting is characterized by the use of a minimalist palette and an extreme liquidity of the sign, poetic and evocative at the same time.
Inaugurated his artistic career in the late eighties, in 2004 wins the first prize at the IV edition of the “Donato Frisia National Art Prize”, Merate, e al “B.ART 2004 - City of Busto Arsizio Painting Prize”. Among his recent personal stand out: Shadow Theater, Exchiesetta, Polignano a mare, 2021; Time now, early time, I study the city, Verona, 2019; Story of a shadow, New Morone Gallery, Milan, 2017; Time suspended, Gagliardi and Domke Gallery, Turin, 2016; Wavelengths with Maurizio Donzelli, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, 2011; Urban shadow, Bianconi Gallery, Milan, 2010; Urban shadow, second act, Artmark Gallery, Vienna, 2010.
He has also participated in various group exhibitions including: Landscape, E3 contemporary art, Brescia, 2021-2022; GestoZero. snapshot 2020, Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia, Violin Museum, Cremona, Former Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, Bergamo, 2020-2021; Appearances, Kunsthalle West Eurocenter, Lana, 2018; Chronos, Contemporary art and its time, Palazzo Colleoni, Cortenuova, 2017; Principles of adherence, Silvestri Castle, Soccer, 2016; Saleterrarum, Villa Litta, Lainate, 2015; Fix the look, Gas - Gagliardi Art System Gallery, Turin and A solitude too loud, New Morone Gallery, Milan, 2014; 54. Venice Biennale, Regional Palace, Milan, 2011.
Historians and critics such as Peter Assmann have written about him, Paolo Balmas, Ilaria Bigotti, Giorgio Bonomi, Daniele Capra, Claudio Cerritelli, Tiziana Conti, Alberto Dambruoso, Elena Forin, Matteo Galbiati, Agnes Kohlmeyer, Roberto Lacarbonara, Lorenzo Madaro, Angela Madesani, Gianluca Martians, Demetrius Paparoni, Elena Pontiggia, Francesco Tedeschi, Marisa Vescovo.
