Marc Travanti
Marc Travanti is an American contemporary artist. His practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and video.
Marc Travanti
- Birthplace
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · photographer
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Marc Travanti is an American contemporary artist. His practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and video.
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Marc Travanti was a painter, photographer and sculptor. The painter was born in Kenosha. Works by Marc Travanti are held at Yale University Art Gallery.
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• Birthplace — Kenosha, Wisconsin • Website —.
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Early life and education
Travanti was born in 1956 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and a MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. He lives and works in New York and Wisconsin.
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Career
Travanti’s art often involves some sort of duality. He has connected images of cell towers and early 20th century American sculpture; African masks and corporate logos; naked human bodies and stock market charts; and portraits of the living with renowned portraits from the distant past. Totemic compositions are often used, particularly in his sculptural wall work. His art has been described as "modern artifacts; a combination of primal elements of simple organic shapes with a modern sensibility". His video work features cross-dissolves of his photographs and photocollages. Travanti's video entitled Entanglement "shows male and female figures twined around each other in ways that evoke tantric sex, wrestling, and the incarnations of Hindu deities".
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- 1.Robbins, Bill. Body of Work. Kenoshanews.com. Kenosha News.
- 2.Fellowship, Artist. Marc Travanti Biography. Racine Art Museum.
- 3.Fellowship, Artist. Marc Travanti. Racine Art Museum.
- 4.Brendan, Michael. Sculptors Using the Wall as Venue and Inspiration. The New York Times. 24 February 199.
- 5.Elmore, John. Of Primal Importance: Travanti's modern artifacts. The Vermont Cynic. 28 February 1989.
- 6.Cotter, Holland. Review/Art; Three Shows Celebrate the Spirit of Fluxus. New York Times. 23 October 1992.
- 7.Neyenesch, Cassandra. Enantiomorphic Chamber. Brooklynrail.org. The Brooklyn Rail. 4 April 2008.
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