José Marchi
Bio
Graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón.
In Buenos Aires, he held solo exhibitions at the Arthea Galleries, Wildenstein, Zurbarán, the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Fundación Mundo Nuevo.
Abroad, he held solo exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the United States.
In 2013 he won the Grand Prize for Drawing at the National Hall of Visual Arts. In 2016 he was awarded the Prize of Painting "María Calderón de la Barca" and the First Prize of Drawing at the Manuel Belgrano Plastic Arts Salon.
In 2017 he was incorporated as a number academic at the National Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently President of the Alberto Trabucco Foundation.
Statement
The protagonists of this series of oil paintings on canvas, are children, whom I copy from anonymous photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, visual sources that are repeatedly cited in my work since the nineties, that, decontextualised from their original activities, concentrate and execute actions as methodical and precise as in this new strange and inexplicable environment, but now immersed in a blue atmosphere that floods the entire surface of the fabric with the exception of some details that I make in full color, disarticulating a homeogenic chromatic structure to favor the coexistence of multiple planes on the same support.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
