MARCO BERTIN

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FACE TO FACE 

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Marco Bertin, born in Verona in 1954, started exhibiting as a surrealist painter when he was 16. He studied art, journalism and cultural anthropology. Later on he abandoned painting to devote himself to conceptual art. Between 1975 and 1980 he implemented large sized works (land art) and body art performances. He also started to use photography and to study history of photography and the artistic expressions of the most famous photographers. And while teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, he started his personal photographical research. 

After more than twenty years of activity, during which he produced various books, several other publications, and exhibitions all over Europe, Bertin has returned to contemporary art and begun producing large-sized photographs, declaring: “My images are not documentations of actions. They are aesthetical interpretations of concepts”. And on presenting Face to Face, one among his ironical series of conceptual images, he wrote: “To communicate with each other, there is no better position than opposite”.