Antonio Marras

Antonio Marras was born in Alghero, on Sardinia, where he lives also today. The island has always deeply influenced
his aesthetic.
Antonio Marras draws, collects fragments and inspirations for his future works, a way to track maps and mark the territory, to arrange voices and silences. A voyage to metamorphosis: it is the idea of ​​traveling, in fact, that assumes an important role in defining the boundaries and the shapes of contemporary art. As a continuous flow, as a movement that goes beyond the barriers, as an escape from control strategies, like an interstitial space.

He debuts with his prêt-à-porter in March 1999 in Milan. Numerous are the raids in art, literature, poetry: the "Trama Doppia” project, "Llencols de Aigua" with Maria Lai, "Uno più uno meno" with Claudia Losi, "Il racconto della forma," "Minyonies "," Noi facciamo. Loro guardano" with Carol Rama," Les Funerailles de la baleine "," Corps exquis". In 2006, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Turin hosts the photographic exhibition “Antonio Marras, ten years later”.

In 2009, during the Salone del Mobile he curates an exhibition entitled La Bea for Il Sole 24 Ore and the same he designs the costumes for Luca Ronconi’s A Midsummer Night's Dream.

He participates in 2011 in the Venice Biennale with an installation in the Italian pavilion entitled Archivio Provvisorio. In 2012 curates the setup of Lea Vergine’s Un altro tempo at MART in Rovereto.

The same year in December, he is the protagonist of the exhibition Vedetti, credetti with Lucia Pescador curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti

In June 2013 he received a honorary degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.

The exhibition The Game, Antonio Marras/Andreas Schulze took place in 2014 at Galleria Case d’Arte in Milan.

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