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Marcello Lo Giudice
Italian, born 1957
Marcello Lo Giudice (born Taormina, 1957) is an Italian abstract painter. Trained as a geologist before studying under Emilio Vedova in Venice, he builds dense surfaces of pure pigment and oil whose cracks and sediments evoke volcanoes, oceans and the colours of the earth.
Biography
Marcello Lo Giudice was born in 1957 in Taormina, in Sicily, within sight of Etna. He took a degree in geology at the University of Bologna before studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice with Emilio Vedova and Giuseppe Santomaso, two leading figures of Italian Informal art. He lives and works between Monaco, Milan and Noto.
Painting as geology
After an early conceptual phase with unconventional materials, Lo Giudice turned to colour and matter. He lays pigment and oil by hand in successive layers, letting the surface crack, wear and settle like rock strata. The result reads as landscape seen from very far away or very close: volcanic crusts in the Vulcano paintings, deep blues and turquoises in the long-running Eden series, a meditation on the beauty and fragility of the planet.
Exhibitions
Lo Giudice exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Pigmenti e Colori at UNIX Gallery in New York (2013) introduced his work to American audiences. In 2017 he showed at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and at MAXXI, the national museum of 21st-century art in Rome, where Eden, Pianeti Lontani was opened by Prince Albert II of Monaco, whose foundation for the protection of the oceans he has long supported. Eden Blue, Volcans Eden followed at the Musée Océanographique de Monaco (2018), and in 2021 Palazzo Reale in Milan presented Sun and Oceans Paintings, curated by Claudio Cerritelli, with a catalogue published by Skira. He is represented internationally by Opera Gallery.