Marco Cianfanelli
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Marco Cianfanelli | |
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| Born | 30 November 1970 |
| Awards | 2001 ABSA Atelier Merit Award 2002 ABSA Atelier Award 2004 Major Award, Brett Kebble Art Awards |
Marco Cianfanelli (born 30 November 1970) is a South African artist who has been involved in a wide range of projects involving art, architecture and public spaces.[1] Cianfanelli combines computer-generated, data-driven applications with human, expressive, gestural acts to create tension in his work. Cianfanelli is one of a handful of South African artists whose work successfully spans the public and domestic sphere.[2] He began his career painting landscapes and continues to be concerned with romanticized space and that which is marginalized through the very act of romanticizing.[2] Cianfanelli's slick, pared-down, iconographic recent works are intricately linked with the complexity of loving South Africa.[3]
One of Cianfanelli's most recognisable works is the depiction of Nelson Mandela's head that is located at the site of Mandela's capture in Howick, South Africa.
Career
[edit]Education
[edit]In 1992, Cianfanelli received his BA/FA (painting) from the University of the Witwatersrand.[3]
Exhibitions
[edit]- 2012 University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2011 SA’ s first Annual International Land Art Event/ Plettenberg Bay
- 2009 Absent Fields, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2009 Contemporary sculpture in the landscape / Nirox Foundation; Johannesburg
- 2008 Intervention, UNISA Art Gallery, Tswane
- 2008 Production Marks, Grahamstown Festival, KZNSA Gallery, The Goethe Institute
- 2008 Heptad, The Art Space, Johannesburg
- 2007 Spier Contemporary, Stellenbosch, Cape Town
- 2007 Positive, Sun City
- 2007 Aardklop 10, Potchefstroom
- 2006 Projected Development: return to begin, Aardklop Festival artist, Potchefstroom
- 2005 Projected Development, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
- 2004 Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town
- 2003 ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2002 Once were Painters, KKNK, Oudtshoorn.
- 2001 We Love our customers, Hungarian Embassy, New York
- 2000 Tour-guides of the inner city – URBAN FUTURES Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg
- 2000 Hoerikwaggo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
- 2000 SASOL New Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
- 2000 Emotions and Relations, Sandton civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg
- 1999 Channel, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
- 2002 Joint exhibition with Stephanus Rademeyer, The Art Space, Johannesburg
- 1998 Atlantis, Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town
- 1998 ! Xoe – Site Specific, Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape
- 1997 Taking Stock, Co-curated and exhibited, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Johannesburg
- 1997 Cyst: Works in Paint, Good Hope Gallery, The Castle, Cape Town
- 1997 No. 4, Hillbrow Fort, Johannesburg
- 1996 Record, Art Space, Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg[4]
Collections
[edit]- SASOL
- ABSA
- DIADATA
- Bloemfontein Art Museum[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Dodd, Alex. "Marco Cianfanelli / Absent Fields". Goodman Gallery. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ^ a b Dodd, Alex. "Who is Marco Cianfanelli?". Sunday Times Heritage Project. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ^ a b Ticknor, Michelle. "Marco Cianfanelli". ArtThrob. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Gallery News for Marco Cianfanelli". Goodman Gallery. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
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