Max Marra, Behind the cover ItaliaImballaggio 9/2023

Max Marra was born in Paola, in Calabria. A multidisciplinary artist, he concentrates his research on the integration and linguistic contamination of drawing, painting and sculpture, bringing extensive and consolidated experimentation to his analysis.

As of today, he has made over 60 personal exhibitions, participating in national and international events; he has exhibited in private galleries and important public institutions. His multi-material works and drawings are exhibited in private collections and national and international museums. He has collaborated with ItaliaImballaggio for many years, coordinating the artists who “dress” the journal month after month.

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My work is a creative journey, which aims to retrace the ethical laws of man through a dramatic artistic expression which unfolds in a highly expressive figural gesture. It’s a visual story, in which each work is a single frame that refers to an inner life in turmoil… a compositional piece that without renouncing a primary ethical tone, is able to generate a constant return to the ethical and aesthetic conscience of the world. Every piece of work is a place for narration and storytelling, in a continuous game of references, possibilities and recapitulation of a journey which, from work to work, from gesture to gesture, arrives at the root of the imaginative universe, in the place closest to the fullness of the spirit. Single or entwined human figures, announcing not an end, but new directions: tangles of contemporary existences, maps of life, spaces of the soul. In this creative dimension, the work becomes a meta-religious element, in which aesthetic and human values are reconciled and in which creative stories are incessantly projected beyond the confines of the obvious.

(Max Marra)