Biography
The minute detail
Each piece of Marco Quaranta’s work expresses great care to the smallest detail, so that his paintings pass even the most accurate and critical examination through the magnifying glass, while the Indian ink is the means to represent the emotions of the soul. The variety of details is a way to mix fantasy to reality, while putting on the paper the emotions and the feelings that spring up from the difficult relationship between will and being.
Before the paintbrush touches the paper, it is already impregnated with the artist’s personality, as well as with the subject’s one, which is never fortuitous, but comes from the instinctive feeling of everyday living.
Marco Quaranta’s pictures convey the eternal conflict between good and evil, as well as the uneasy coexistence between what you really are and what others expects you to be. Every life experience can become a source of inspiration and reflection, and therefore of interpretation and reading of the being.
While never losing the sense of reality, the artist, by means of the able management of the few colours and of his own refined technique, impresses interpretative force to his paintings, plain at first sight but dense of meanings to a closer and more thoughtful observation.
Education
Marco Quaranta was born in Legnano, a small town in the nearby of Milan, cited in the Italian national anthem and known for being the site of the homonymous battle which took place in 1176. Here he obtains the scientific diploma, followed by an MA in Architecture at Politecnico of Milan.
Since he was a small child he has shown great interest in art, so that his parents often brought him to visit museums, castles and historic towns, in order to make him appreciate the Italian fabulous artistic and natural heritage.
Not satisfied by school teaching of art, and wishing to improve his pictorial technique, he went to the picturesque town of Sorano, near Grosseto, in order to learn from Master Sergio Tamassia.
The art of Marco Quaranta is based on the care for the details, seen as inescapable elements of his subjects’ intimate essence. He keeps on refining his technique, looking for the way to better express and represent his feeling. He achieved the greatest satisfactions by using the Indian ink: few colours, only those that are strictly necessary, and contrasts of black and white allow him to best express his emotions.
Architecture studies are part of a journey started as small child, and helped him develop the idea of Composition: starting from an overview, to subsequently define even the smallest particular.
He is currently involved in different fields, all related to graphic representation: painting, architecture, interior design and graphic art.
