Marco Santaniello : galerie bruno massa

MARCO SANTANIELLO (ITA)

Born in 1981 in Cosenza, Italy
Lives & works in Cosenza, Italy

Marco Santaniello is an international pop graphic artist based around the world. Pop, for him, means being very close to the community and to the people, at the basis of the idea of his art lies the belief that, ultimately, we are all the same. He began his artistic journey with portraits; anyone can be a superstar in front of his "rainbow wall". However, the beginning of his artistic career began in the world of fashion. Journalist, creator of the T-Skirt, patented by him - a t-shirt that is worn backwards as if it were trousers -, unauthorized fashion shows in places such as London, Paris and Milan, and other authorized ones such as those of the Williamsburg Fashion Week End in Brooklyn NY. He began creating graphics, especially portraits, in 2010, also becoming the artist of the month of April of one of the most important fashion sites in the world, Business Of Fashion. Com, followed by the creation of the advertising billboard for MODA PRIMA at Pitti Immagine, in Stazione Leopolda in Florence. Italy, The artist, in the meantime, evolved his style, dedicating himself also to Urban Landscapes, starting to photograph all the corners that caught his attention, a great "walker", a Flaneur, like Ana Zavadil, art critic Brazilian art, he defines it in one of his critical texts. His Landscapes represent cities and countries he has visited having traveled extensively and lived in different countries for a long time. His artistic sphere also includes a series of "satirical" works to show his point of view on the world and today's society. The works created are usually one-of-a-kind pieces and editions of 3 (from 2024 the artist will only create one-of-a-kind pieces) and they all start from a photograph on which vector and coloring work is carried out, using two well-known graphics programs. They are then printed on canvas or other media. To create one of your pieces it takes at least/minimum about 130 hours on the computer, then it depends on the amount of details present, you can even reach a higher number. His career, in exhibition terms, began in 2010 with some group exhibitions in the Tortona area of Milan, continuing in 2011 in Montreal, Canada and the first important exhibition in Manhattan, New York in the Chelsea neighborhood in 2013, continuing in Porto Alegre, Seoul, Beijing in the famous 798 district, also reaching the goal of a first solo exhibition in a museum, in China, in Yiwu in June 2017 and the year before he had also collaborated with Belstaff UK for the FUORI SALONE of the Milan Design Week. It is also important to mention his 3-month solo exhibition at the LG Science PARK LGU+ in Seoul in 2019, in South Korea and the one in Mexico, in San Miguel de Allende in 2022. In addition to the city museum of Yiwu, another work by Marco is also part of the collection of the MACRS (Museum of Contemporary Art of the Rio Grande du Sol) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Education

2010 Marketing And Visual Merchandising Course, Milan, Italy,
2010 Advertising Graphic Basic Course, Milan, Italy, 2010

2008 Cambridge First, Certificate English, London, UK

2006 Degree In Science Of Communication, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy
2006 Cool Hunting Fashion Course, Polimoda, Florence, Italy

Solo shows

2022 G12tres Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

2019 LGU+ Science Park Solo Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

2018 Globetrotter, Yoon Gallery, Insadong, Seoul, South Korea
2018 From NYC To Poa, Gravura Galeria De Arte, Poa, Brazil

2017 City Odyssey, Yiwu Central Museum, Yiwu, China

2015 Urban Landscapes, Tree Gallery, 798, Beijing, China
2015 Lim Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
2015 Cosmopolitan, UM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Breathing NY, Arte & Fato Galeria, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2013 Nice To Meet You, Tazza Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA

2011 New Pop Art Era, Philippe Lounge Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2010 Pop Portraits’s Spazio Dante 400, Milan, Italy

Group shows

2021 Collective, G12.tres Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2021 Collective, G12.tres Gallery, Irapuato, Mexico

2020 Collective Exhibition, X-POWER gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 SALONG GAC 2020, Collective, Guanajuato, Mexico
2020 Collective, G12tres Gallery, Irapuato, Mexico

2019 This is Tomorrow, JoYoung Space, Insadong, Seoul

2018/2019 Atlantida Arte, Gravura Galeria, RS, Brazil
2018/2019 Check-In Com Arte, Radisson Hotel, POA, Brazil
2017-2018 Atlantida Arte, Atalantida, POA-RS, Brazil

2016 SUV, In collaboration with HONDA, Daegu, South Korea
2016 容象 Gallery (Rong Xi Ang Art Museum) , Yiwu, Zhejiang, China

2015 A Paisagem, Macrs Cont. Art Museum, Poa, Brazil

2011 Underline Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, USA
2011 Spazio Concept, Milan, Italy
2011 Don Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011 Combines Xl Gallery, Milan, Italy

Art fairs

2022 Pop-Up Art & Deco, Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France
2020 ArtRevolution, World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, South Korea
2019 Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan

2018 Art Kaohsiung, Art Fair, Taiwan
2018 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, South Korea
2018 Asia Hotel Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
2018 GIAF 2018, Art Fair, South Korea
2018 Art Revolution Taipei 2018, Taiwan
2018 36th Korea Galleries Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea

2017 Asia Hotel Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Casacor Rs, Art Fair, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
2017 Giaf 2017 Art Fair, Changwon, South Korea
2017 Hotel Art Fair in Daegu, South Korea
2017 Annual Artist Master at A.R.T. Taipei, Taiwan
2016 SpaArtProject, Bugok, South Korea

2016 GIAF, Gyeongnam International Art Fair, Gyeongnam, Korea
2015 Cheongju Int.Art Fair (CIAF, )Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea
2015 Affordable Art Fair Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Collections

MACRS, Contemporary Art Museum, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
YIWU Central Museum, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China

Collaborations

2019 MARCO SANTANIELLO X LG (Corporate Exhibition)
2016 MARCO SANTANIELLO X BELSTAFF X DESIGN WEEK MILAN, Milan, Italy
2011 ADV GRAPHICS FOR MODA PRIMA BY PITTI IMMAGINE, Florence, Italy

Akibahara Entrance
2023
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
90 x 70 x 3 cm - 35,4 x 27,5 x 1,2 in

Flamenco Seville
2023
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
80 x 60 x 3 cm - 31,5 x 23,6 x 1,2 in

View of Matera
2023
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
90 x 65 x 3 cm - 35,4 x 25,5 x 1,2 in

Rainbow Building
2024
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
80 x 70 x 3 cm - 31,5 x 27,5 x 1,2 in

Tokyo Alley
2024
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
80 x 60 x 3 cm - 31,5 x 23,6 x 1,2 in

King Kong in in Sangenjaya
2024
Digital art printed on canvas, original edition, 1/1
80 x 60 x 3 cm - 31,5 x 23,6 x 1,2 in