Marco Bagnoli 1949–

Marco Bagnoli has long been a presence at major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennial (1982, 1993, 1997) and documenta in Kassel (1982 and 1992). From the mid-1970s to today, Marco Bagnoli has participated in group shows in Italy and abroad (X Biennale de Paris, Arte e Critica, Identité Italienne, The European Iceberg, Promenades, Ouverture, Soonsbeek, East meets West, Europa oggi, Periodi di Marmo, Minimalia, Belvedere dell’Arte). He has had solo exhibitions at prominent museum institutions like Castello di Rivoli, Magasin in Grenoble, De Appel in Amsterdam, the Center for Contemporary Art in Geneva, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, the IVAM in Valencia, and the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci.

The artist has pursued his own very personal path, ahead of his time, creating site-specific installations in places of exceptional artistic, architectural, religious and spiritual places like the Pazzi Chapel in Florence, the Villa Medicea dei Cento Camini in Artimino, the Sala Ottagonale della Fortezza da Basso in Florence, the Church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence, and the City Hall of Siena. His works can be found in important international collections, and permanent installations of his pieces have been commissioned by public institutions and private patrons.

Most recently, Bagnoli has exhibited three shows of note in Italy: La voce: Nel giallo faremo una scala o due al bianco invisibile (The voice: in the yellow we shall make a ladder or two in invisible white), Museo Madre, Naples (2014-2015); AttoRitratto. Opera scenica, Central aisle of the Stazione Leopolda, Fabbrica Europa, the XXI edition, Florence (2014); Araba Fenice (Arabian Phoenix) in the Limonaia Grande of the Boboli Gardens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (2013).