Marcantonio Lunardi
Video Art / Moving Images / Electronic Arts / Contemporary Printmaking
Marcantonio Lunardi is an Italian video artist, printmaker and electronic artist
whose research moves between video art, experimental cinema,
sound environments and contemporary printmaking.
His work explores memory, social fragility, digital transformation
and the relationship between human beings, technology and landscape,
creating visual narratives suspended between documentary language and metaphor.
“Images are never neutral spaces.
They preserve memory,
reveal fractures
and transform reality into vision.”
Biografia
Marcantonio Lunardi (Lucca, 1968) vive e lavora a Bagni di Lucca.
Diplomato in regia documentaristica,
dal 2001 sviluppa una ricerca tra cinema del reale,
videoarte, immagini elettroniche e sperimentazione audiovisiva.
Dopo i master del Festival dei Popoli di Firenze
con Michael Glawogger, Sergei Dvortsevoy,
Thomas Heise e Andrés Di Tella,
avvia un percorso artistico centrato sulle immagini in movimento
e sulla relazione tra documento, memoria e trasformazione sociale.
Le sue opere sono state presentate in musei,
festival e istituzioni internazionali
tra Europa, Asia, Medio Oriente e Americhe,
tra cui il National Art Center di Tokyo,
il Museum on the Seam di Gerusalemme,
la Galeri Nasional Indonesia
e il Tribeca Cinemas di New York.
Biography
Marcantonio Lunardi (Lucca, Italy, 1968)
lives and works in Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany.
Graduated in documentary filmmaking,
since 2001 he has developed a research practice
between experimental cinema, video art,
electronic imagery and audiovisual experimentation.
After attending the masterclasses of the Festival dei Popoli
in Florence with Michael Glawogger,
Sergei Dvortsevoy, Thomas Heise and Andrés Di Tella,
he began an artistic investigation focused on moving images
and on the relationship between documentary language,
memory and social transformation.
His works have been presented in museums,
festivals and international institutions
across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas,
including the National Art Center in Tokyo,
the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem,
Galeri Nasional Indonesia
and Tribeca Cinemas in New York.
Artist Statement
Italiano
La mia ricerca nasce dall’osservazione delle fragilità contemporanee.
Lavoro sulle immagini come luoghi di tensione tra memoria,
trasformazione sociale e percezione del reale.
Utilizzo video, suono, immagini digitali e incisione
per costruire narrazioni sospese tra documento e metafora,
dove il paesaggio urbano,
il corpo e la dimensione tecnologica
diventano elementi di una riflessione sull’identità contemporanea.
Negli ultimi anni l’incisione xilografica e linoleografica
è diventata parte integrante della mia pratica artistica,
come necessità di riportare il gesto e la materia
al centro dell’esperienza visiva.
English
My artistic research originates from the observation
of contemporary fragilities.
I work with images as spaces of tension
between memory, social transformation
and the perception of reality.
Through video, sound, digital imagery and printmaking,
I create visual narratives suspended
between documentary language and metaphor,
where urban landscapes, the body
and technological environments
become elements of a broader reflection
on contemporary identity.
In recent years woodcut and linocut printmaking
have become an integral part of my artistic practice,
as a way of bringing gesture and materiality
back to the center of visual experience.
Contemporary Video Art and Experimental Imagery
