Marco Bertin Biography
Marco Bertin is an artist born in Verona in 1954. From a young age, he developed a passion for surrealistic painting and began exhibiting his works at the age of sixteen. After studying art, journalism and cultural anthropology, Bertin decided to abandon painting to dedicate himself to conceptual art. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the artist created high-impact works such as land art and body art performance. Furthermore, he began to use photography to document his interventions. With the advent of the transavantgarde, which proclaimed the return to the use of the brush, the prospect of starting to paint again pushed him to become interested in and approach artistic photography by studying the history of the medium and the language of the great masters of the lens. He teaches at the Academy and begins a personal research that leads him to create large-scale photographic works of art using a contemporary language with added aesthetic value. His images are not just documentation of an action, but are works of art in themselves. Bertin is an artist selected for the Socially Responsible Art Division, in which artists undertake to create ethical art projects that involve the public on important social and environmental issues, thus becoming spokespersons for ethical thoughts, social and human that can help build a better world around people. In 2012, Bertin exhibited in a personal exhibition at the Lissone Museum and participated in 4 editions of the Italy-China Biennial in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2013, he exhibits at the collective "Pianeta Cina" at Palazzo Te in Mantua.
