Marcello Scuffi
Infinite moment tasting like eternity - Florence Art Gallery 13-27 April 2019
FLORENCE ART GALLERY presents a solo show of the great Italian artist MARCELLO SCUFFI, titled “Infinite moment tasting like eternity”. On display for two weeks a selection of about forty works. Marcello Scuffi will be present at the opening. Also Giovanni Faccenda, scholar and art critic, will be attending the opening.
Deposits of old trains, slightly metaphysical desert coastlines, suburban circus marquees, still-lifes and enchanted moonlit nights are the recurring themes in Scuffi’s works. A world with no humans and no concept of time, a world that awakens a memory deeply bound to the environment, to the land, to the objects experimented through the senses and daily life.
Marcello Scuffi has been compared to big names of the past, like Giovanni Faccenda states “it is not just memories of Giotto, Beato Angelico, Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that echo from the now typical and identifiable iconography. It’s easy to trace the author’s long-standing inclination for Carlo Carra’s 1919 Loth’s Daughters and 1921 Pine by the Sea, as well as some enigmatic reflections of Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysics of his t Ferrara period, and of Mario Sironi in his suburban cycle”.
The solo show is part of the cycle of events called Un tè da Ristori. The exhibited works are on sale and will be on display until April 27th.
About the artist
MARCELLO SCUFFI was born on September 25th, 1948 in Tizzana, a small village in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany. He soon showed his passion for drawing and painting and taught himself the art. He started as an amateur in 1970, but since 1973 he has dedicated his entire life to painting.
From the beginning of his artistic career, he appeared in several collective art and solo exhibitions. He lived and worked in Brussels in 1977 and 1981. For the last twenty years, he has lived between Quarrata the coastal area in Versilia.
Marcello Scuffi’s work is well known and appreciated in Italy but also abroad, in particular in France, Belgium and Switzerland. His paintings have aroused the interest of art critics but also of renowned writers who have often published essays and papers on his work.
Since 1972 he has organized over fifty solo art exhibitions, most of which took place in important museums and prestigious institutional sites.
