Marco Tirelli

(1956 – Rome, Italy)

Graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in 1978 he presented his first solo show at the Galleria De Ambrogi in Milan. He took part in the 1981 Venice Biennale and a few years later started a partnership with Fabio Sargentini’s L’Attico Gallery, where he set up two personal exhibitions – in 1984 and 1989 and several exhibitions in 1985, 1987 and 1988. In the mid-1980s he moved the studio in the premises of the former Cerere pasta factory in Via degli Ausoni, in the Roman district of San Lorenzo, at that time an important center of artistic culture, where in 1984 he took part in the “Ateliers” exhibition with Bianchi, Ceccobelli, Dessì, Gallo, Nunzio and Pizzi Cannella. In 1985 he took part in the collective “Anniottanta” at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna and presented a personal exhibition at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, where he exhibited again in 1986 and 1989. In 1990 he had a personal room at the Venice Biennale and in 1992 also a personal exhibition, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni and Walter Guadagnini. In 2002, an important anthological exhibition entitled “Das Universum der Geometrie” was held at the Institut Mathildenhoehe in Darmstadt, presented the following year at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna. Among the most recent exhibitions the solo show at the Di Meo gallery, the exhibition in Florence in 2008, with Pizzi Cannella and Dessì in Udine in 2009 and at the Oredaria gallery in 2010.