Angelo Marchetti Artists' Association
A twentieth-century Milanese painter and sculptor who worked for decades far from the market, building an authentic and deeply personal body of work. A figure who deserves to be rediscovered, and whom time has made all the more compelling.
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Three languages — painting, sculpture, engraving — for a single, coherent inner search.
Angelo Marchetti painted, sculpted and engraved for almost fifty years, building in seclusion a vast and personal body of work in which the human figure, the inner landscape and formal research intertwine in an immediately recognisable language. Born in Milan in 1930, he worked far from the mechanisms of official exhibition: a choice that protected the authenticity of his voice, but kept his work out of the visibility it would have deserved.
What sets Marchetti apart from his contemporaries is also the private dimension of his research: a body of writings — poems, letters, aphorisms, notes — that accompanies the visual work and reveals an artist who thought in images and in words alike. To collect a work by Marchetti is to reach this double depth: a visual body of genuine quality and a complex human figure whose path is worth coming to know.
The Angelo Marchetti Artists' Association, chaired by the painter's son, oversees the cataloguing and dissemination of the corpus: archival research, selection and promotion. The recognition of authenticity of the works is reserved to the artist's heirs. The works presented on this page come from this ongoing work of care, which ensures documented provenance and direct examination of the original.
«A wondrous journey through the infinite worlds of the spirit.»
Ettore Ceruti, 1976
«His work does not offer itself at once: it asks for a gaze willing to linger.»
Note by the Association
Active between the 1960s and 2000, Marchetti worked at the margins of the institutional exhibition system, building over time a coherent and secluded body of work.
From the artist's profile
A selection from the painted, sculptural and graphic production
Many of the painter's works are still held in private and family collections. If you own one, you can contact the Association to request its examination and possible inclusion in the catalogue currently being compiled; the recognition of authenticity is reserved to the artist's heirs.
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