Marco Casentini solo exhibition

Italian artist Marco Casentini (born in La Spezia, 1961) to show his work in a personal exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco. An important occasion to admire this acclaimed artist, whose residence is both in Italy and California, nowadays a regular guest at leading museums and galleries in Europe and the US, as well one of the most interesting artist of Italy's survey.

His paintings are characterized by geometric shapes and sharp swaths of color, alluding to landscape of great intensity.
During his first travel in 1996 through North America, discovering western United States, particularly California, the colors and especially the light of this state enter significantly in its creativity. Abandoning the use of the land, his palette is enriched with new colors and atmospheres; in 1998 he held his first solo exhibition in the U.S.

From that moment stays in the States will be repeated several times a year, and its exhibition schedule is made constant: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Ketchum, Tucson and Chicago, his last major personal Torrance Art Museum, the Bakersfield Museum of Art, the Riverside Art Museum, CAMeC of La Spezia.

In 2005 he received the prestigious Pollock - Krasner Foundation of New York, in 2010 the Premio Lerici Pea "Artists Ligurians in the World" and in 2011 he was invited to the 54th International Exhibition Padiglione Italy at the Venice Biennale for the Section Liguria.

Last June, he has installed two large installations / wall painting in the center of University 'Bocconi in Milan. Marco is also teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.
The permanent exposition of Marco Casentini, present at the Opening Reception on January 31, will be displayed throughout the months of February and March, 2012.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Brian Gross Fine Art Gallery, which has represented the artist since 1999.
Admission is free.