MARCO CALI
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A UK based artist and curator with teaching experience and a parallel interest in writing, cinema and theatre.


My practice looks at two aspects of narrative:

How visual media, text and art convey memory, history and the passage of time.

What is the English narrative and how do I (an Italian by birth) relate to it.

When looking at narrative, I am interested in the relation between everyday 'reality' and artistic or creative traditions and culture. How fiction is constructed, narrative is structured and how this can be played with are the starting points from which I begin.

The work I make has elements of satire and existentialism, and will take a variety of forms including two dimensional, sculpture, object making, art-books and installation projects.

I actively participate with other artists, in one-off projects and exhibitions.

Contemporary British Drawing
Performance Cities
POST Artists
AMBruno
Island Projects (2009 to 2011)

Education

2006-2008
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design; MA Fine Art (Distinction)

2005-2006
Kensington & Chelsea College; City & Guilds Delivering Learning (FE)

2000-2005
Chelsea College of Art and Design; BA Fine Art, Theory and Practice

1996-97
Chartered Institute of Marketing; Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing

1987-91
University of Surrey; BEng (Hons.) Degree in Mechanical Engineering


Exhibitions

2019
Contemporary British Painting, Norwich Cathedral
Painting the In-Between, The Bowery, Leeds
Contemporary British Painting, Yantai Gallery of Art, China

2018
New Painting, Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, Marylebone, London
Her Soul's Bright Armour, Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, Kent (solo exhibition)

2017
Two Places at Once, Art Licks Weekend, London
Contemporary Masters from Britain, touring exhibition Yantai Art Museum (Yantai), Artall Gallery & Jangsu Art Gallery (Nanjing), Tianjin Academy of Fine Art (Tianjin), China
Tescard P, The Crypt, London

2016
Parables Displaced, Whitstable Biennale Satellite

2015
Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, China
Counter Plymouth, KARST, Plymouth
365 Drawing, Galerie Anieres, Switzerland
Book Acts, Arnolfini, Bristol
Object, The Tetley, Leeds

2014
Berliner Liste, Postbanhof, Berlin Friedichshain
The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
365 Drawings, Brock Keep, Reading
Liverpool Artist's Book Fair, Central Library, Liverpool
Information Point as part of Unasked-for-Public-Art Agency at Canalology, Markfield Park/Lea Valley Canal, London
PAGES Leeds, The Tetley, Leeds

2013
Cascades, Studio 180, London
The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
BALTIC Artist's Book Fair, Gateshead
Bristol Art Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery
International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds
Publish And Be Damned, ICA, London
Do You Remember it – or weren’t you there? London Gallery West

2012
Surfaces, Sput+Nik Gallery (group show) Porto, Portugal
At Play 2012, New Ashgate Gallery (group show), Surrey, UK
Remarkable and Curious Conversations (group show), London
Public Art Proposals, Construction Gallery, London

2011
Print & Design Now!, (group show) Bearspace at SW1 Gallery, London
Bristol Art Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery

2010
From the Dustheaps, (group show) Dickens Museum, London
London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Harsh Lines and Spongy Surfaces, (group show) Hackney Wicked Art Festival, London
Permutations & Perambulations, (group show) Dickens Museum, London
PrintNow2, Bearspace, (group show), London
PrintNow, Bearspace at the London Art Fair, (group show), London.

2009
O, NY Art Book Fair (group show)
Sounds & Screen, The Lounge, London (solo show)
At Play 1, South Hill Park, Berkshire (group show)
Between Gallery and Bookshop, IMT, London (group show)

2008
Liverpool Independent Biennale, Wolstenholme Projects (group show)
Manchester Artist Book Fair, Manchester School of Art (group show)
Wrapped And Encased, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool (group show)
This Constant Cracking of the Surface, Bargehouse, London (group show)

2007
DIY, Nolias Gallery, London (group show)

2006
Word, Window Gallery, London (solo show)
Group Show; BAR, London (group show)
Identikit; TemporaryContemporary, London (group show)

2005
Stages; Putney Arts Centre, London (solo show)
Odyssey; Bluebell Railway, East Grinstead (group/curated show)
Event, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Milbank (group show)

2004
Figures, Lauderdale House, Archway (group show)
Terror; Beaconsfield gallery, Battersea (group show)
Stop!; Chelsea (group show)
Apostles, Italian Cultural Institute; London (solo show) May 2003


Other Projects

May 2018
Residency, Artist Village, Xi'an, China

October 2017-January 2018
Curator Testcard P
The Crypt, London

July-September 2017
Curator Drawing into Landscape
The Crypt, London

June 2017
Chaired POST Artists Open Meeting
Antiuniversity, London

July - August 2016
Co-curator Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper
Various locations, UK

June 2016
Curator Parables Displaced
Whitstable Biennale Satellite

December 2015
Co-curator Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, China.

April 2015 - onwards
Chair POST Artists.

May 2014
Co-Producer and Health & Safety Officer for Canalology (POST Artists)

Apr '11 – Apr 2012
Secretary for POST Artists.

Sep-Oct 2010
Co-curating From the Dustheaps, Dickens Museum, London*

August 2010
Co-curating Harsh Lines and Spongy Surfaces, Hackney Wicked Art Festival, London*

Apr-May 2010
Co-curating Reveal, Dickens Museum, London*

Aug 2009-Present
Co-curator in Island Projects (* above)

Aug '09-June 2012
Curating The Lounge at Euston, London.

January 2007
Curating & publishing Beating Time (artist book collaboration)


Teaching Experience

December 2015
Guest teacher Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, Xi'an, China

Sep-Nov 2004
‘Shrinking Childhoods’ project, Kids Company/Tate Modern

May-June 2004
ACE – Visiting Art Tutor in South London schools

Dec 2005-June 2006
College of North East London; Visiting Art Tutor


Writing

May 2014
Co-script development Information Point; Unasked-for-Public Art Agency at Canalology, London.

April 2013- July 2014
Co-script development pre-BARD // post-SHARD, Performance Cities at Rich-Mix (February 2014) & Somerset House (June 2014), London.

June 2012 - January 2013
Editing and Publishing Keeping French Time, a novel by J F Madell,
Normandy Publishing, London.

June 2012
Shortlisted Bulbul 2012; Sandpit Arts, Brighton.

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