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Carlo Marcucci - Represented by LA Artcore
( Italy, 1962 - present )
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Artist: Carlo Marcucci ( Italy, 1962 - present ) -
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Main Category: Mixed Media
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Genres: Minimalism, Contemporary American Art
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Biography: A graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (now Savannah College of Art & Design), Marcucci has lived in the United States since 1981. After working for local design firms such as Wagner Bruker Design and Jan Lorenc Design, he relocated to Los Angeles in 1990, where he worked for Disney Imagineering on EuroDisney theme park's signage systems.
His work as a sculptor and painter can be summarized in two primary bodies of work titled “Wheatfields” and “Chemical Still-Life”. While these two series can appear completely different from each other, both sculptures and paintings share an obsessive attention to detail and craftsmanship. Additionally, they both focus on a theme related to food production in the industrial society.
“Chemical Still Life” is a series of realist still-life portraits featuring contaminated produce due to pesticide overuse. “Wheatfields” instead, is a series of minimalist, abstract and geometric wall-mounted sculptures created of edible materials such as spaghetti, rice and nori seaweed.
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Exhibition History: Since his first solo show held in 1982 at the Ann Jacob Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, his work has been exhibited in many group and solo events at museums, galleries and cultural centers in the United States, Asia and Europe. Some of these include exhibits at the Italian Institute of Culture (Los Angeles, CA), Don Soker Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Offramp Gallery (Pasadena, CA), 516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Los Angeles International Airport and Ontario International Airport, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), Copia (Napa, CA), Gallery Kingyo (Tokyo), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Tokyo) and the Kitakyushu Museum of Art (Kitakyushu), San Diego Museum of Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, San Bernardino County Museum, Burbank Municipal Art Gallery (Burbank, CA), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek, CA), San Diego State University, La Sierra University (Riverside, CA), LA Artcore in Los Angeles, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Gensler (Santa Monica, CA), Woo Yun Gallery (Dae Jon, South Korea), Red Dot Art Fair (New York), Salon Oblique (Venice, CA), Boritzer/Hamano/Gray Gallery and Ruth Bachofner Gallery (Santa Monica, CA).
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Bibliography: Marcucci's works appears published catalogues and books that accompanied exhibitions held at the Museum of Arts & Design’s (NYC), 516 Arts, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the San Diego State University Gallery, La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery and the Woo Yun Gallery. His paintings have been prominently featured in a national televised advertisement campaign for Progressive Insurance. His sculptures have been featured in the book “400 Boxes” published by Lark Books in 2004.
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