Marco Orsi - Love Marilyn

The work draws on a pop aesthetic in its use of famous or mass-produced images and their mechanical reworking. Pop Art emerged in the United States in the second half of the 20th century as a result of artists' interest in and critique of the contemporary "consumer society." All expressions of Pop Art presuppose a sort of double bond with the world of consumerism and mass media. On the one hand, the artwork is reduced to a mere consumer product, thanks to the use of advertising language in the works and their serial reproduction through mechanical processes. On the other hand, as in this case, the mass-produced images themselves become works of art, as a more genuine and truthful expression of the new society and thanks to the artist's recontextualization.

Artist Marco Orsi's research, in several works such as this one, is directly connected to the influences of Pop Art. First and foremost, the composition centers on the massified image of the quintessential diva, which dominates the center of the painting in a now timeless image. The entire space of the work is then occupied by other objects, again harking back to the world of consumerism and Western society's fetishes. The entire surface is organized in a synchronous overlapping of elements, as if it were a collage. In reality, however, Orsi conducts the entire operation on the pictorial plane; indeed, in this sense, he pushes his gestures to the limit, deliberately smearing the images and recontextualizing them in a decidedly more expressionist context.

Marco Orsi was born in Montalto Bormida in 1926 and passed away in 1999. He held solo exhibitions in many cities in Italy, France, Switzerland, the USA, Japan, Belgium, Malta, Uruguay, and Sri Lanka. He participated in approximately 900 group exhibitions worldwide and 130 solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, receiving significant awards and recognition. He is included in the leading contemporary art bibliography, and the Bolaffi catalogue dedicated a monograph to him, introduced by Paolo Levi. His works are featured in museums in Huesca (Spain), Moscow, Addis Ababa, New York, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, and in the modern art collections of the Quirinale, the Vatican Palace, and many public institutions and private collections.

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