Marco Tamburro was born in Perugia in 1974. In 1994 he graduated in Architecture and Furniture of Art in his city. The same year he moved to Milan where he met up with the creative community in Milan, attending the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera and collaborating as an assistant to several photographers and set designers. The choice was not random. In fact, Marco Tamburro was already mature with a real interest in the wide spaces of the theatre, which take shape and light, through his creative imagination through means of pictorial panels. Painting fascinates him. His great expressive power fulfills a vital role in being able to translate visual images in the middle of communication but also he's able to interact with other artistic forms such as the theater, photography, furniture, architecture. All are essential components in constructing scenes. In Milan he had his first experience painting and exhibited his works in some galleries and alternative spaces in the city, especially related to fashion and design. After Milan, Tamburro decided to move permanently to Rome, a city that is always attractive for its enviable artistic beauty and the underground life. In Rome, he found his passion for theatre and to work with different theatre companies. He devoted himself full time to painting and in 1999 he graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. In 1999 he founded a 'cultural association' that focuses exclusively in visual arts. The real artistic Marco Tamburro was born in Rome, both as regards to achieving a complete mastery of painting, and for the recognition and appreciation received. Within a few years of 'jetset' in the Roman Art Scene he has been approached by major critics and gallery owners and has participated collectively in galleries with other young emerging artists.. The Roman cultural environment elevates those artists able to interpret everyday life: a life not lived, where the common man is allowed to be dragged in the vortex of its incessant and frenetic pace, losing sight of the flow too quickly, without being able to seize the little things that surrounding the life that he's going through. This explains the marginal role that the human figure has in his painting. He is a simple presence, a shadow, a specter that time consumed by incessantly pursuing the endless trajectory of the city, crossing long pedestrian crossings and climbing up the top of dizzying and monumental skyscrapers. The man is inevitably crushed and alienated from this magma which is today's metropolis, a symbol of its strength and hostile aggression. Over time Tamburro has progressively reduced the photographic clippings in his paintings found on a campiture of black and white and sometimes interrupted by squarci switched to red, to better express the transfiguration of the "theater of life" that he wants to represent. This theater in the paintings of Marco Tamburro becomes symbolically represented by sad puppets that are manipulated by a device of infinite wires, which renders them impotent. The applause and reception from collectors and the art market has made it plain that galleries and public institutions are becoming increasingly interested in his work culminating in major exhibitions and publications in some of the most important Italian art magazines. Writers, art critics and exponents of the art world as Renato Civello, Vito Riviello, Gabriele Simongini, Enzo Santese, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Barbara Martusciello, Ennio Calabria, Antonio Tamburro and others, have defined the work of Mark Tamburro as personal and effective in representing cynical punctuality with the cancellation of all that substantiates the contemporary age.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1998 Roma - Giulio II "Il Visionalismo metropolitano", a cura di Romoli Barberini
1998 Roma - Galleria Il Selvaggio, a cura di Vito Riviello
1999 Foyer privato - Teatro Furio Camillo
2000 Molfetta (BA) - Studio 4 Art Gallery
2000 Roma - Galleria Spazio Visivo
2001 Edimburgo (Scozia) - Galleria Artisti Europei
2001 Roma - Galleria Lombardi "Mascetti - Tamburro a quattro mani", a cura di Andrea Romoli e Marco Tonelli
2002 Padova - Padua Art Gallery "Due generazioni a confronto" Marco Tamburro e Antonio Tamburro
2002 S.Benedetto del Tronto (AP) - Galleria Genus
2002 Roma - Galleria La Vetrata
2003 Verona - Galleria Ghelfi
2003 Monaco (Germania) - Galleria Barbara Ruetz
2003 Ausburge (Germania) - Galleria Barbara Ruetz
2003 Palma Nova (UD) - Polveriera Napoleonica, a cura di Enzo Santese
2003 Udine - Galleria Nuova Arte Segno, a cura di Enzo Santese
2004 Catania - Galleria Artesia, testi di Andrea Romoli, Barbara Tamburro, Paolo Rizzi
2004 Cesena (FC) - Galleria L'Immagine
2004 Roma - Galleria Camelù
2004 Modena - Galleria Il Divano di George
2004 Udine - Galleria Nuova Arte Segno, testi di Enzo Santese e Gabriele Simongini
2004 Pescara - Galleria Contemporanea, a cura di Gabriele Simongini
2004 Verona - Galleria Ghelfi, a cura di Renato Civello
2004 Roma - Galleria Lombardi, testi di Gabriele Simongini, Ennio Calabria, Antonio Tamburro
2006 Roma - Galleria Monocromo, a cura di Maurizio Scaccaluga
2007 Monaco (Germania) - Pinakothek der Modern - Barbara Ruetz
2007 Lugo (FC) - Palazzo del Commercio "Costruzione costante"
2007 Capri - Galleria Bersani "Kaos di luce"
2007 Roma - Hotel de Russie "Percorsi"
2007 Verona - Galleria Ghelfi
2008 Tolmezzo (UD) - Palazzo Frisacco Marco Tamburro e Antonio Tamburro "GENERAZIONI"
2008 Roma - Galleria Michelangelo "Teatro quotidiano", a cura di Paola di Giammaria
2008 Napoli - Castel dell'Ovo "Teatro quotidiano" Marco Tamburro e Claudio Bisattini, a cura di Paola di Giammaria e Lorenzo Canova
2008 Roma - "Photography" - Galleria Monocromo, a cura di Chiara Canali
2009 Roma - 6° Senso Art Gallery "Nero su Bianco", a cura di Kasper Van Aalten
2010 Pescara - "Dal colore al bianco e nero", Museo d'Arte Vittoria Colonna
2011 Milano - Speed - Galleria Miniaci
2011 San Pietroburgo - Museo Menage - "viva l'Italia"
2011 Miami - URBAN - Black Square Gallery
2011 Roma - "Life Live", Museo Macro Testaccio La Pelanda, a cura di Luca Beatrice
2011 Roma - Mostra personale, 6° Senso Art Gallery
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1999 Città di Castello (PG) - Out Look
1999 Loggiato Bufalini Ascoli Piceno - Palazzo Malaspina "Riflessioni sull'oggi", a cura di Andrea Romoli Barberini
2000 Forlì (FO) - Expo Arte
2001 Carrara - Expo Arte
2001 Bari - Expo Arte
2001 Bari - Galleria Santo Stefano
2001 Padova - Arte Fiera
2002 Udine - Galleria Nuova Arte Segno, a cura di Enzo Santese
2002 Roma - A.R.G.A.M - Primaverile romana - Galleria Studio S
2002 Roma - Interno F.M. - Ex Palazzo Cerere
2002 Bologna - Arte Fiera
2002 Bari - Expo Arte
2002 Dusseldorf (Germania) - Forum Bergmannsgluck, a cura di Werner Thiel
2002 Padova - Arte Fiera
2002 Montecatini Terme (PT) - Accademia Dino Scalabrino "Conflitti", a cura di Guido Del Monte
2002 Viareggio (LU) - Torre Matilde "Conflitti", a cura di Guido Del Monte
2003 Roma - Laboratorio Telematico - Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
2003 New York (USA) - Arte Expo
2003 Milano - Mi Art
2003 Amsterdam (Olanda) - Supper Club
2003 Cannes (Francia) - Expo Arte
2003 Cairo (Egitto) - Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea
2003 Montecarlo (Principato di Monaco) - Expo Arte
2003 Palma Nova (UD) - "Architettura Sacra nella Città Fortezza di Palmanova", a cura di Enzo Santese
2004 Bassano del Grappa (VI) - Piccola Galleria
2004 Vicenza - Vicenza Arte
2004 Philadelphia (USA) - Expo Arte
2004 Inbersago (CO) - Premio Morlotti
2004 Catania - Istituto Europeo per la Promozione Arte Contemporanea "Naturalmente", a cura di E.Santese
2004 Moggio Udinese (UD) - Torre Medievale, a cura di Enzo Santese
2004 Genova - Riparte
2004 Cosenza - Brutia Expo Arte
2004 Austria - Artkarlsruhe
2004 Parma - Arte Parma
2004 Viterbo - Vitarte
2004 Catania - Le Ciminiere "Immagine Presente", a cura di Lucio Barbera
2005 Vienna (Austria) - Kuns Wien
2005 Padova - Arte Fiera
2005 Roma - Riparte
2005 Roma - "Generazionalmente"
2005 Tarquinia - Auditorium S.Pancrazio "Au fil de l'art"
2005 Roma - Associazione Culturale Micro "4 d"
2006 Napoli - Riparte
2006 Viterbo - Vitarte
2006 Parma - Arte Fiera
2006 Catania - Expo Arte
2006 Verona - Galleria Ghelfi - Arte Fiera
2006 Firenze - Galleria Padua Art Gallery - Arte Fiera Firenze
2006 Roma - Galleria Monocromo - Riparte
2006 Shanghai (Cina) - Grand Theatre Gallery "Shapes and colors of Italy"
2007 Roma - Galleria Il Narciso "L'idea prende forma"
2007 Viterbo - Galleria Contemporanea - Vitarte
2007 Verona - Galleria Monocromo - Art Verona
2007 Firenze - Galleria Ghelfi - Arte Fiera Firenze
2007 Roma - Galleria Monocromo "Sign city", a cura di Gianluca Marziani
2007 Roma - Galleria Monocromo - Riparte
2008 Roma - Galleria Monocromo - Art Verona
2008 Roma - 6° Senso Art Gallery "Sguardi sulla pittura"
2009 Matera - Opera "visioni urbane"
2009 Verona - Art Verona - Galleria Ghelfi
2009 Brindisi - Contemporary - Live art
2010 Firenze - ArtUro Arte - 6° Senso Art Gallery
2010 Miami - Art Basel Miami
2010 Verona - Art Verona
2010 Padova - Arte Padova - Galleria Ghelfi
2010 Genova - Arte Genova - 6° Senso Art Gallery
2011 Taormina - "scarico a carico" - Tamburro, Bucchi, Leofreddi
2011 Bologna - Under 40 - Galleria Forni
2011 Cesena - Young Arists on Show - Galleria L'immagine
2011 Ravenna - Premio Marina di Ravenna
2011 Taormina - "ROSSO MARE" - Arte in Profondità
2011 Istanbul - Art Fair
2011 Monaco - Monaco Burger Gallery