An Art on a Postcard Mini Auction in Collaboration With The Bomb Factory

About 

Marco Bizzarri (b. 1988, Chile) is a visual artist graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work has been exhibited in Chile, as well as abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include Unearthed at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop (London,2020) Incuria which took place in Galeria Animal (Chile, 2019) and Plan de cierre (Chile 2017), which gathered the work developed at Centro ARC, a new space for artistic residencies that he founded together with Rosa Velasco in the Humboldt archipelago. 
Furthermore, he has participated in a series of collective exhibitions like Habitantes at the Centro cultural Matta (Argentina,2019), Cohabitar, Cede Galería, (Perú, 2016), Outsider at the Gare of Strasbourg (France, 2014) and The Young Collectors Exhibition at the Leila Heller Gallery (USA, 2013). On 2020 he won the Gilbert Bayes Award of the Royal Society of Sculptors (London) and also the first place in the XIII Videoart Award of Ayuntamiento de Astillero (Spain). Recently he have received The de Laszlo Foundation Award 2021 in London. Today he is studying at Turps Banana painting studio programme in London. 

Education 

2020 - present 
 
Turps Banana Art School Studio Painting Programme , (London, UK)  
 
 
2010 - 2014  
 
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) 
 
Fine Arts 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

 
2022 
Gilbert Bayes Award Exhibition , Royal Society of Sculptors, Cromwell Place, (London UK) 
RSS GBA Exhibition, CASC Gallery, University of Chester (Chester, UK) 
2021  
Art Nova 100 Annual exhibition, Guardian Art Center (Beijing, China) 
Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale (Venice, Italy) 
The Bomb Factory Artist's Film Festival (London, UK) 
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries (London, UK) 
2020 
"Unearthed", Unit 1 Gallery ( London, UK) 
 
AWARDS 
 
2021 
The de Laszlo Foundation Award 2021 (London, UK) 
Gilbert Bayes Award 2021, Royal Society of Sculptors (London, UK) 
 
2020  
100 Young Leaders 2020, El Sábado Magazine of El Mercurio and Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile) 
Solo Residency Unit 1 Gallery Workshop (London, UK) 
First prize Ayuntamiento de Astillero XIII Videoart Award, (Spain). 

Gallery Representation 

Galería Animal , Chile 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

My work is based on the relationship between memory, territory and nature. 
These concepts are situated and put into dialogue on different scales on the basis of autobiographical situations.  
The research processes, the methodology and the materiality are subordinated to the context, on the one hand, linked to the everyday and the encounter, and on the other hand, my geographical positioning (hybrid-industrial territories), so that the work in the territory, the wandering, the involvement with the landscape and the human testimony are fundamental.  
 
In wandering through each new territory, I gather and register exogenous elements that alter the natural order of the landscape. These elements are always linked to a break, a fragment of memory or loss, reflecting the conflictive relationship we have established with the environment. 
 

Please do not bid on artwork in our Art on a Postcard auctions if you intend on selling the artwork after you have purchased it. This auction has been organised for charity and all artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for the Hepatitis C Trust. When the work produced for the charity is sold on the secondary market it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising.