Paesaggio segreto (2024) Painting by Marco Bettocchi

Marco Bettocchi is an Italian artist born in Bologna in August 1949. He graduated from the Art School of Bologna and graduated in architecture from the University of Florence. Sculptor and painter, he loves wood and prefers oil colors on canvas or wooden board.

He began his career at just 16 years old and, after a figurative expressionist period, he moved his research into the field of abstract expressionism. Using the technique of oil diluted with turpentine, enriched, with the deepening of his research, with colored tissue paper, canvases and collected earths, Bettocchi creates works of art with great visual impact and emotionally suggestive.

Bettocchi's sculptures are exclusively in wood. He began working with mallets, chisels and gouges, managing to convey a strong sense of movement and dynamism to his works. His most recent research has led him to mix shapes, so that geometry and organicity merge, also supported by the inclusion of colors (resuming what he had already done in the 80s and 90s of the last century and continued in the first decade of the new century).

His works have also been exhibited in important museums around the world, as evidenced by his curriculum.

He moved to Cape Verde in 2018 where he lived and worked for five years, letting himself be inspired by the colors and shapes of the local landscapes, then exhibiting his works in personal exhibitions appreciated and supported by the Ministry of Culture.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1949
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists