Biography
Marco Schifano ( b.1985) lives and works in Rome.
Since childhood, his toys were cameras and photographic equipments and growing with them, he experiments his communicative skill. He practices “ camera editing” so that his research on sense and rhythm are blended in his movies ( films): his artistic ( aesthetic) description of the world is reached thanks to many hours of footage and hundreds of photos.
His recent photographic work is based on a complex process which foresees a long and introductive research of elements that are interconnected, put together and hence shot so as to give life to iconographies that have been greatly made official. Still life is used to go over the pictorial tradition of still life by means of images that are on the threshold between fact and fiction.
