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# N O B L A N K B R A I N S
Marco Bertuzzo is an emerging artist from
Toronto. After completing his Masters of Fine
Arts degree at Central Saint Martins at the
University of Arts London, Bertuzzo began creating
materially experimental paintings full of bodily,
colourful, sexual and intricate images. Rooted
in an involved study of the intents and effects of
allegory, Bertuzzo's work departs from the rigid
prescriptions of discrete symbols and instead, delves into a wholesale
pursuit of unexplored narratives, encouraging the audience to unearth
new meanings from age-old imagery. The brilliance of Bertuzzo's evocation
of allegory lies in his exploration of the relation between image, narrative
and viewer. He eschews the idea that any viewer will bring with them an
inherent, fixed understanding of the extended symbolism employed in
his compositions.
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Marco Bertuzzo
Artist Statement
Bertuzzo's design is inspired by a melange of classical and contemporary
sources. His work takes after classical allegorical pieces with narratives
that he flips on their heads. Instead of trying to tell a narrative, he creates
images that act like allegorical inkblots – filled with narrative potential – that
a viewer may gaze into and dream up their own explanation for the images.
