BIOGRAPHY
Marco Antonio Abbagnara was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1966 but he also spent part of his youth in Tuscany. These two regions, where art is the heritage bequeathed by three thousand years of history, have with no doubt provided him a solid basis for his artistic mind since the very beginning of his life. He started moving from one place to another pretty soon and he once admitted that he is an "untiring traveller". As a matter of fact, the subjects of his works represent the result of what emerges from his own personal reflections and sensations constantly inspired by every corner of the world which the artist himself visits and explores. He lived in Australia for two years where he met young talented artists like him and where in 1990 he attended in Sidney an art-school course (organized by the Local Institution for the Promotion of Artistic Industry) which helped him to improve his artistic knowledge and better his technical skills. Successively, he lived in Thailand for six months as well as in New York always breathing his love for contemporary art, his biggest inspiration as expression of freedom. After many important years of training and experience on canvas he has finally reached his artistic top form on black Metal Leaf by means of which the artist tells old legends, depicts images, expresses sensations of every kind and deep thoughts based on his personal experiences directly to the eyes of his spectators.In addition to being featured in New York and exhibitions around the Europe.
He currently lives and works in Italy
www.marcoantonio.it
