Biography
Mark
Cattaneo was born in 1975, in the Padua province.
An experiential approach based on the direct experimentation of techniques and materials, incorporating them to his own irrep
lac eable
vision, will be a dominant constant throughout his research path.
Since 2010, the artist's production ha...
Mark
Cattaneo was born in 1975, in the Padua province.
An experiential approach based on the direct experimentation of techniques and materials, incorporating them to his own irrep
lac eable
vision, will be a dominant constant throughout his research path.
Since 2010, the artist's production has mainly focused on
photography, sculpture and material painting through metals, resins,
terracotta and wood , concentrated on a process of abstraction of the subject from the chaos of reality, now reset in a dimension of
isolation in which the peculiar external qualities reveal the inner truths of the earthly condition.
The materials and techniques become different languages to talk about the aesthetic and structural, relational and emotional
components, in the numerous degrees of consciousness, which are at the basis of human events, full of questions, mistakes and ne w
experiences and of life running.
In 2017 the cycle of abandonment of works begins with the
Series 7 , made of raku ceramics with the integration of wood, iron and
different filaments, scattering them among the spaces dedicated to art in the context of the Venice Biennale, as well as scat ter ed along
the streets of the same city, freeing them to an unknown fate
They follow in evolved
versions , Serie 8 Venezia, Serie 9 Roma, Serie 1196 Veneto.
During these years the ongoing research on the
experiential memory of matter through the deterioration of metal, the application of
objets trouvés (founded objects) or their incorporation, the addition of acrylics and soils and time passing by, in successive stratificatio ns
with lengths of up to 18 months into more material situations, together with the weather conditions of the place of evolution
Inspired
by the photographic view of Mario Lasalandra , approaches photography as a visual project.