Marco Fantini

Before his story as an artist began, Marco Fantini (Vicenza, 1965) spent two years in Mexico City studying mural art by closely examining the work of Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo and furthering his understanding of Tina Modotti's photography, in addition to being a designer and architect.
Uninhibited and ironic, he knows that both Picasso and Walt Disney, just as cinema, illustrations and even photography, influenced the imaginative world of the twentieth century; he often places the Mickey Mouse figure at the center of his paintings, and consequently receives much criticism for this "insolence". Regarding this cycle of works of enigmatic charm, inspired by the Teatro India in Rome, the artist speaks thusly: "I have sought to give back to 'India' what it has given to me [...] the profound energy, the silent Gothic beauty, the calm and reassuring black of the masonry [...]. Well, I should like it if this intervention of mine within the womb of the theater could manage to jolt the imagination blocked by rational thought".