Marco Palmieri’s practice is concerned with the “poetics of availability”, the artist employing a visual lexicon of simultaneous grace and banality to communicate images of luxury familiar to most from package holiday brochures. The charm of Palmieri’s works lies in the fleeting, private poetry of its gestures towards familiar images: palm trees, seashells and Grecian busts distilled in intimate shorthand. In this moment of playful connection these forms are removed from the fantasies projected by the tourist industry and imbued with an idiosyncratic liveliness.
Marco Palmieri graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2011 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, having previously studied at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.
Born: 1984 in Tulsa, United States
RA Schools student from 2008 to 2011
Gender: Male
Contact information:
mfpalmieri@gmail.com
2016 Folly, Emalin, The Pineapple, Dunmore
Domestic Appendices, T293, Rome
2015 Wonderwheel, Depart Foundation, Miami
Three Romans, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
Orlando, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Opening Show, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Camel Blues, Kinman Gallery, London
Spool, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
Marco Palmieri, Frutta Gallery, Rome
2013 Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, London
The Instability of the Image, Paradise Row, London
Living Rooms, Hobbs McLaughlin, London
2012 Jack Lavender, Oliver Osborne, Marco Palmieri, The Approach, London
Weekend, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa
2011 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011, ICA, London
The Call (FCO-CLJ-LTN), Peles Empire, Cluj
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011, S1 Gallery, Sheffield
The Private Life of Plants, Peles Empire, London