Marcantonio
Milan, Italy
Marcantonio, born ‘76.
He attended the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. As soon as he
graduated, he began working as a theatrical set designer and collaborating
with various architects.
Soon he started to create unique design pieces while working on an Artistic
production. Step by step the two careers began to contaminate each other and
his design gets enriched with artistic concepts.
Since 2001 he has been creating sculptures, art objects and design projects.
The connections between Man and Nature are his favorite topic, with his original
interpretation of Nature’s dynamics and beauties showing Man’s attitude to alter
the original.
He learned from Art how an idea can be elegant, which is why he is always
looking for pure and synthetic concepts.
“I never give up on irony, irony is a serious thing. If a good idea is also funny, I
can’t resist realizing it”
He loves the idea that his job is a continuation of what he used to do when he
was a child: to play around with anything he found and to create what his mind
imagined.
Nowadays, seeking the aesthetic component and the concept, he gets his ideas
from the same sources he created when playing as a child, daydreaming with
what is usually around him every day.
Art and design form a whole in the creations of Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba,
who enters the world of Villari with two new ideas.
His recurring theme is that of the connections between human beings and
the organic world, interpreting the dynamics and beauty of nature while
demonstrating the attitude of man, who alters the original. In constant pursuit of
pure, precise concepts, the artist creates objects that fascinate and amaze us,
narrating unusual and extraordinary stories.
This is the approach behind $ABER TIG€R, the reproduction of a skull of a
prehistorical animal, redesigned as a digital sculpture by working on a 3D image
obtained with photogrammetry, created by combining over 400 photographs.
“The saber-toothed tiger has fascinated me since childhood; it seems like a
fantasy creature, and yet it really existed” – Marcantonio
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