Marco Fidolini was born in S. Giovanni Valdarno in 1945. A painter and engraver, he has also dedicated his efforts to art-related essays.
Since 1965 – the year of his official debut in the Vigna Nuova Gallery in Florence – he has held numerous personal exhibitions and participated in both national and international shows. In 1970 he began working on his first etchings; soon engraving and printing became a new form of work for the artist, alongside his paintings.
A large collection of his etchings is conserved within the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi in Florence and at the Museo della Grafica Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa. Ever since 1965, the artist’s work has been characterized by its specific existential connotation, expressed in a symbiosis between artistic language and social implications through a form of iconographic cycles in which the themes of the city and of industry, or rather their technological-urbanistic remainders, have occupied a primary role.
His work has often been identified with the neo-metaphysical and neo-objective aspects, or the cultural stratifications, of the 1920s German research by visionary Magischer Realismus or, perhaps more fittingly, with the works of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Certainly his art is strongly influenced by certain painting models from the Tuscan and Northern traditions of the Fifteenth century, especially visible in certain plastic fixities and lenticular studies.
Website: http://www.fidolini.it/