About
Marco Corsini (b. Wangaratta, Australia, 1969) is a Melbourne based artist. He is currently the Director of Melbourne Art Class.
Marco Corsini’s paintings feature the landscape and his immediate environment. Using shifts in viewpoint and perspective and often painted over extended periods of time, the works explore perception and the nature of painting as a recorder of experience rather than as a representative tool. Alongside a phenomenological interest in consciousness and experience, Marco’s work also incorporates personal motifs such as the horse, indicating the artist’s own presence. The paintings explore perception and subjectivity, asking us to go beyond everyday discourse into deeper engagement with the nature of our existence.
EDUCATION
2002 The University of Melbourne Master of Creative Arts
1997 The University of Melbourne Bachelor of Education – Visual Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 LEARNING TO FLY Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2015 HOMECOMING Gallery 314‚ Melbourne
2010 RECENT PAINTINGS Gallery 314‚ Melbourne‚ Australia
2009 RETROSPECT Gallery 314‚ Melbourne‚ Australia
2005 NIEUWE SCHILDERIJEN Suzanne Biederberg Gallery‚ Amsterdam
2001 NEGOTIATING SUBJECTIVITIES The George Paton Gallery‚ Melbourne
1998 THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING Indigo Studios Gallery‚ Melbourne
1997 CHAOS ORDER ACCIDENT TRUTH RANDOM DESIGN Indigo Studios Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 RICK AMOR DRAWING PRIZE (FINALIST) The Art Gallery of Ballarat‚ Ballarat
2010 SMALL WORKS ART PRIZE Brunswick Street Gallery‚ Melbourne‚
2010 BELLE ARTI – CHAPMAN AND BAILEY ART AWARD Metro Arts‚ Brisbane
2010 ARC YINNAR DRAWING PRIZE ARC Gallery‚ Yinnar
2009 SHINE Exhibitions Gallery‚ Wangaratta
2006 AFTER HIROSHIMA: NUCLEAR IMAGINARIES Millais Gallery‚ Southampton
2005 AFTER HIROSHIMA: NUCLEAR IMAGINARIES Brunei Gallery‚ London
2000 14GO: EMERGING ARTISTS MAKE THEIR MARK Bendigo Art Gallery‚ Bendigo
2000 NEW PAINTINGS FROM MELBOURNE Jackman Gallery‚ Melbourne
2000 ENVIRONMENT>INVENTION>MEMORY Switchback Gallery‚ Churchill
2000 UNPROCESSED-REPROCESSED The Adelaide Fringe Festival
1999 NEW HORIZONS The Melbourne Fringe Festival
11 Responses to “About”
Would love to know a bit more about your Art Program Marco – I’ve done quite a lot of studio drawing in the last couple of years but would be good to get back outside. Sometimes making this happen is a bit hard so perhaps coming along with some other folk might be better :>
At the moment the program I run is all studio based. I have been asked about doing outdoor workshops before and I am wanting to give it a try next year. There is more info about the program at http://www.melbourneartclass.com.au and I will start a new blog with information soon.
Thanks Marco – I’ll take a look at your website
I’ve put up a new site at http://www.melbourneartclass.com
Your work is great! Do you work in wet on wet?
Thanks. For some aspects of the textures, wet on wet works well and is quite effective. As the larger paintings take some time, much of the painting is done wet on dry though.
Many thanks for following dragonshades. Your artwork is fascinating with an amazing eye for detail.
Thanks. I’m also enjoying seeing your work.
I have had a quick look through several of your posts and am most impressed with your work. The balance and detail is excellent. You say you are interested in the space, but there is a spiritual aspect to your pictures that I like immensely. Thankyou for visiting my blog, Tony
Thanks Tony. I think a lot about how to represent some sort of spirituality but have felt that it eludes me. It was very encouraging to read your comment.
I’m sure you have looked at Paul Cezanne still life paintings (e.g. Still Life with Compotier – Hogg Art Museum, Harvard) the perspective is all over the place, the planes don;t line up, the plates are falling over at impossible angles, and yet… and yet… they hang together so beautifully, they give the observer a zing. This is spiritual. and this is where you are coming from in many paintings. Keep it up. Tony