Marco B. Fontichiari
Deer Park, California, 1992
Works and lives in Venice
Shows
2021
18 artworks that couldn't fit in a window, Milan, curated by co_atto
Terrapolis, Bologna, curated by Parsec
2020
Interferenze , CAOS - Centro arti opificio siri, Terni, Italy, curated by Pasquale Fameli
THE UNNATURAL LANDSCAPE, Leonidio, Greece, curated by Balkan Can Kino
2019
Don't tell me where they come from, Metronom, Modena, curated by Gabriele Tosi
Isolart, Laboratorio L'Isola, Bologna, curated by Collettivo Isola
Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, selected for Post-internet art, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
Ibrida, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlì, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, curated by Art Action
Videoart Yearbook, Studio Stefania Miscetti , Rome curated by Renato Barilli, Guido Bartorelli, Alessandra Borgogelli, Pasquale Fameli, Silvia Grandi e Fabiola Naldi
2018
Athanasius Kircher, Nexst, Torino, curated by Porto dell'arte
Identical opposites II, Exit Festival, Bologna, curated by Kepler 452
II Biennale d’Arte Giovani, Cantello/Varese, curarted by Campagna Ignazio and Luca Scarabelli
Metacinema, Bologna, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
FILE The body is the message, San Paolo, Brasile
Combat Prize, Museo G. Fattori, Livorno, curated by Walter Guadagnini, Lorenzo Balbi, Francesca Baboni, Andrea Bruciati, Federica Chiocchetti e Stefano Taddei
Lost in Translation (popcorn), Locale Due, Bologna
Videoart Yearbook, Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli, Guido Bartorelli, Alessandra Borgogelli, Pasquale Fameli, Silvia Grandi e Fabiola Naldi
Golden Reel Student Film Festival, Charlotte, USA
Balkan Can Kino, Athens, hosted by Communitism
Šoblės Kino Festivalis, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017
METACINEMA, Bologna Italy curated by Piero Deggiovanni
Show memorysize of, /\nonim/\<unsthalle (Zenturm), Varese, curated by Gabriele Tosi
ﾶ乇尺乙乃ﾑu √oﾚ7, Gallerie DEUX, Marseille, curated by MRZB
Undergraduate Art Show, University Art Gallery, San Diego, curated by Anya Gallaccio
ADM Media Awards Exhibition, Adam D. Kamil Gallery, San Diego
ARTPOWER Student New Media Festival, The Loft, San Diego
Vapor Night, Bologna, Curated by Piero Deggiovanni
2016
I Biennale d’Arte Giovani, Cantello/Varese, curated by Campagna Ignazio and Luca Scarabelli
Metacinema, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
Ibrida, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlì, curated by Piero Deggiovanni, Davide Mastrangelo, Elisa Giovanetti
La grandezza delle mani, P420, Bologna, curated by Lelio Aiello and Massimo Marchetti
La lingua degli affetti e del desiderio, Raum Xing, Bologna, openvisit workshop curated by Lelio Aiello
2015
Fango, XM24, Bologna, curated by Merzbau
Passaggi, Castello Cabiaglio, curated by Valentina Petter and Luca Scarabelli
2012
Ero un sacchetto di plastica, sono un’opera d’arte, Gazzada Schianno, curated by Luca Scarabelli
Education
2018 Advanced Training Course in Movie Theater Management, Cineteca Bologna
2014-2018 BFA in Film Studies, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna
2017 Overseas Program at University of California San Diego
Workshops
2017
Accademia dell’immobilità, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence/Le Murate, Luigi Presicce
Residency at the Lac o le Mon Foundation, at Casa Cafausica for Unusual stories of forgotten objects. Digging the ground and the imagination Curated by Giuseppe De Mattia e Chiara Argentino and Star matters Curated by Osservatorio ARTURO (Sara Alberani, Samuel Mello)
2016
Residency at the Lac o le Mon Foundation, at Casa Cafausica for La lingua come punto d’incontro with Cesare Pietroiusti Punto a Capo.
1946 1976 2016 / Amnestia Oblio Censura, MAMBO, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Filippo Pierpaolo Marino and Daniele Campagnoli La lingua degli affetti e del desiderio, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Cesare Pietroiusti Io sono qui, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Martina Cavallarin
2015
Performance, tempo e spazio nelle pratiche site-specific, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Chiara Mu Accademia dell’immobilità, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna/MAMBO, Luigi Presicce
2014
Installazioni e Performance Site-Specific, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Chiara Mu
2009
Class on video art, Art School Frattini, Varese Giancarlo Giaccari
Collaborations
2019
Curated Mock Jungle at DAS, Bologna with Metoché - Co-Projected Art show Un certo numero di cose, at the MAMBO with Cesare Pietroiusti
2016
Video documentation for Drink Free solo show of Daniele Pulze curated by Tripla artist run space - Bologna Post-production for the video “Il tempo del ringraziamento” of Maurizio Finotto at Segnali di Guerra artshow at Le Gallerie, Piedicastello, Trento - Video concession for the third episode of L’Ora Blu, a video format about contemporary culture, curated by Maurizio Finotto - Visuals for three music scores during a music event held within the art show “Orizzonte variabile” at the gallery CUBO Centro Unipol Bologna, collaboration with Emidio Clementi and Dario Parisini, May 20 - Co-creator Fine eroica di un’immagine del Quattrocento, MAMBO, curated by Luigi Presicce May 6 to June 5 - Co-creator Punto a Capo. 1946 1976 2016 / Amnestia Oblio Censura, MAMBO, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, curated by Filippo Marino, April 25 to April 29
2015
Stills from the video “the rain maker” for MERZBAU n.5 http://issuu.com/mrzb4/docs/merz_v.pdf_2 - Interventions at Novella Guerra, Imola with Annalisa Cattani Photograph for MERZBAU n. 4 - Video for show-reel of video-portraits curated by Filippo Porcelli, RAI projection room, regional headquarters Emilia Romagna, Bologna
Websites
http://formeuniche.org/popcorn-marco-b-fontichiari/
https://vimeo.com/marcofontichiari
Other experiences
Hiked several trails in Europe and the United States 2020 Via della lana e della Seta, Sasso Marconi-Prato, Jordan Trail, Aqaba-Petra 2019 24H Bologna-Firenze, Cammino de Santiago Sant Jean du Port, France-Fisterre, Spain 2018 Alta via n.2, Valle D'Aosta; Via Francigna, Lucca,Italy-Rome, Italy 2017 Documenta Projecte, Kassel, Germany Munster, Germany 2016 Sentiero Quattro Valli, Menaggio, Italy- Porlezza, Italy 2015 Via degli dei, Bologna, Italy - Florence, Italy 2014 Appalachian Trail, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - New York, New York 2013 Pacific Crest Trail, Campo, California - Manning Park, British Colombia 2010 San Francis pilgrimage, Forli, Italy - Assisi, Italy
In the summers of 2011 and 2012 I worked on an Alpine cheese farm in Val Verzasca, Switzerland
In 2011 I completed a 10 day Vipassana meditation class, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland