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MarCo BerNardI

1968 born in venice, italy
lives and works in venice, italy

Marco Bernardi’s research is based on an investigation about the physiological needs that bring the
human being to an artistic creation. Bernardi explores anthropology and ethnology in order to find elements
and symbols that have been not corrupted by time. Man is an animal with something more than the others: he
has a consciousness, he is aware about time which passes by, he can perceives his future, his death and the
decadence of his own civilization, he can testifies his existence, he can leaves traces of his own experience.
Bernardi tries to focus the results obtained by an “animal specie” which assumes consciousness of itself, and
underlines its own features leaving traces of its passage through time. It could be said that art has always been
- somehow - the result of this attempt: how to get consciousness. Bernardi is aware of this, and through his
work he tries to find which impulses have brought the human being to the invention of an handmade object,
or to the elaboration of a symbolic abstraction. It has to be said that his works are constituted by elements
that are easy to be red: holes, lines, hands. When someone looks at his sculptures, he is immediately involved
by something familiar, and - as if he is going virtually back through time - he understands the richness of such
simplicity.
Bernardi uses industrial resin to make his sculptures, but he manipulates it in a way that it seems very
similar to the natural one. resin is a material similar to glass but warmer and less transparent. resin is opaque,
it has always some imperfections, and - maybe - it is the closest material to the ones that constitute the human
being. resin obliges our eyes to focus what is entrapped inside it, something that is often mysterious and
fascinating. Finally, we can say that Bernardi tries to elaborate a sort of enigma. If someone would be able to
find the solution, it would be easy to understand the absolute value of human nature that continues to ask its
own identity to models too much artificial. The artist’s proposal is to begin a journey throughout the collective
subconscious, which preserves the historical inheritance of the whole humanity. nevertheless, this journey
could be done only with eyes free from any cultural deviance. (AndreA PAgnes)

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