Marco Fusinato returns to Italy after representing Australia at the 59th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale in Venice with his first European monographic exhibition, which brings together some of his most significant works from recent years. The exhibition features a collection of works in which visual art and noise music merge, giving rise to installations with a strong visual impact and sensory engagement. For the occasion, Desastres, the impressive performance piece presented at the Venice Biennale in 2022, will be reprised: an immersive experience in which images and sounds merge to create a total audiovisual landscape. An unmissable event to discover one of the most original and innovative voices in contemporary art and performance, offering the public an unforgettable experience.
As an artist, he conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, some of which continue across numerous iterations. Within these projects the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation. As a musician, he explores the idea of noise as music, using the electric guitar and mass amplification to improvise intricate, wide-ranging, and physically affecting frequencies.
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Marco Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, performance, and recording.
He was selected to represent Australia at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022) in which he presented DESASTRES, a 200-day performance as installation. His work has also been presented in many other significant exhibitions including All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015); The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial (2012) and SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018). His work was included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013). Fusinato performs regularly in the experimental music underground, primarily as a solo artist and has released many recordings on vinyl format. DESASTRES which was first performed in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022 has since been performed at Berlin Atonal (2023), Rewire Den Haag (2024), Now or Never Melbourne (2024) & Unsound Krakow (2024). His ongoing series of durational noise-guitar performances Spectral Arrows – described as a monumental aural sculpture – was first performed at The Glasgow International Arts Festival in 2012 and along with his solo performances continue to be performed in galleries, museums, theatres and festivals throughout the world.
