MARCO
TAGLIAFICO
Marco Tagliafico, b.1985
Marco Tagliafico lives and works in Alessandria, Italy. He studied Oriental Languages and trained in the Master’s program at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive. His work has been featured in several exhibitions, including Ligne(s) de Mire (Bonisson Art Center, 2025), BLA Berlin (Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2023), Boiling Projects (Fondazione Oelle, Catania, 2020), Da Guarene all'Etna (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, 2019), and 10 Years Old (Foro Boario, Modena, 2017).
He received the Arteam Cup Award in 2024, the MZ Costruzioni Award at Art Verona in 2023, and the New Post Photography Award at Mia Fair in 2021. His works are held in various collections.
His practice develops from a photographic process, with a painterly and installation-based approach. Engaging with the theme of image production as a force shaping our experience of the world, his work employs transparencies, layers, and painted glass to explore the relationship between the visible and the invisible, between physical presence and the digital realm. Within this perceptual gap, his works function as devices for deceleration—obstacles that invite the viewer into a process of visual excavation, a continuous shift between presence and absence.
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**Selected Solo Exhibitions:**
- Superfici di marea, Momart Gallery Matera, curated by Matteo Galbiati
- 2024/2025 *The Fiction of the Physical*, A Pick Gallery, Turin, curated by Domenico De Chirico
- 2023 *Degree of Separation*, A Pick Gallery, Turin, curated by Maria Elena Marchetti
- 2023 *Guardare il cielo, vedere il mare*, Castello di San Terenzo, Lerici, curated by Spazi Fotografici
- 2023 *Fading*, Plaza Art Residency, Viareggio, curated by Claudio Composti
- 2022/2021 *Prove di resistenza*, Studio81 Contemporary Art Projects, Mantua, curated by Manuela Zanelli
- 2021 *ZONEMERSE*, Villa Guazzo Candiani, Olivola (AL), curated by Maria Elena Marchetti
- 2018 *Metafotografare il museo*, Studio81 Contemporary Art Projects, Mantua, curated by Manuela Zanelli
**Selected Group Exhibitions:**
- 2025 Sintesi a colori, La Castiglia di Saluzzo, curated by Fondazione Garuzzo
- 2025 *Ligne(s) de mire*, Bonisson Art Center, Aix en Provence, curated by Thierry Bigaignon
- 2025 *Passaggi Paesaggi*, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, curated by Chiara Dall'Olio / Daniele De Luigi
- 2024/2025 *What if it was all just a mirage?*, Bigaignon, Paris, curated by Thierry Bigaignon
- 2024 *Combat Prize*, Museo G. Fattori, Livorno
- 2024 *As Islands*, Castel Belasi, Trento, curated by Stefano Cagol
- 2024 *Portraits*, A Pick Gallery, curated by Emanuela Romano
- 2024/2023 *ArtTeam Cup*, Fortezza del Priamar, Savona, curated by Matteo Galbiati and Livia Savorelli
- 2023 *Enegan Art*, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, curated by Gabriele Chianese
- 2023 *BLA Berlin*, Bethanien Kunstquartier, Berlin, curated by Virginia Monteverde
- 2023 *Blu Policromo*, A Pick Gallery, curated by Emanuela Romano
- 2022/2021 *Prove di resistenza*, Studio81 Contemporary Art Projects, Mantua, curated by Manuela Zanelli
- 2021 *Mia Fair*, New Post Photography, Milan, curated by Gigliola Foschi
- 2020 *GE/19 Boiling Projects*, Fondazione Oelle, Catania, curated by Filippo Maggia
- 2019 *Premio Fabbri*, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (TV), curated by Carlo Sala
- 2019 *Da Guarene all'Etna 2019*, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Guarene, curated by Filippo Maggia
- 2019 *Fly me to the Moon*, Leica Galerie, Milan, curated by Claudio Composti
- 2019 *UKYA City Takeover*, New Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham
- 2018 *Madame Gerard*, MATA, Modena, curated by Filippo Maggia
- 2018 *SOMA Exhibition*, ArteFiera, Bologna, curated by Filippo Maggia
- 2017 *The Summer Show 2017*, Foro Boario, Modena, curated by Filippo Maggia
- 2017 *10 Years Old*, Foro Boario, Modena, curated by Filippo Maggia
**Education:**
- 2016-2018
- Fondazione Modena Arti Visive - Master in Contemporary Image
**Awards:**
- 2024 *Arteam Cup*, Espoarte Award, overall winner
- 2024 *Arteam Cup*, Espoarte Award, photography category winner
- 2023 *MZ Costruzioni*, Art Verona Award, winner
- 2021 *New Post Photography*, Mia Fair, winner
- 2019 *Premio Fabbri*, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, finalist
- 2019 *UKYA City Takeover*, New Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, finalist
- 2017 *10 Years Old*, Foro Boario, Modena, winner
**Residencies:**
- 2024 *Momart Gallery*, Matera
- 2023 *Plaza Art Residency*, Plaza e de Russie, Viareggio
- 2019 *THP Tuscan House of Photography*, Palaia
- 2018 *Studiottantuno Contemporary Art Projects*, Mantua
**Publications:**
- 2024 *Arteam Cup*, Espoarte, Vanilla Edizioni
- 2022 *Attraversare l'orizzonte*, dialogue between photography, drawing, and painting, Prinp Editore, A Pick Gallery
- 2019 *GE\19 Boiling Projects*, SKIRA - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
- 2019 *Premio Fabbri*, Eighth Edition - Fondazione Francesco Fabbri