Marco Rizzo
Venice photographers
My job is to be a father. My profession is to create images.
I have always rejected labels, telling you that I am a photographer I perceive it as reductive, but also excessive. I had an artistic education, I went from copying from life, to theatre, to cinema, and then to photography. The fundamental thing for me is not the medium but the realization of the idea. My photographic research evolves through the use of water; it’s my passion. In 2006 I founded Underwater City Productions, a container where I publish my ideas and completed projects.
After graduating from the Academy with top marks in Disciplines and Performing Arts, I collaborated from a very young age with various Venetian institutions and museums such as Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana for which I made 3 documentaries. My work has given me the opportunity to meet and work for figures in the field of architecture and art such as: Tadao Ando, Francois Pinault, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Francesco Bonami, Mona Hatoum and Umberto Pelizzari. And fashion houses such as: Furla, Al Duca d’Aosta and companies in the artistic glass sector such as Venini.
I have been published in various international magazines, among which I mention: FIGGI of Milan, the Parisian PENIDA and MARIKA, ArtTells and Top Posters of New York, PUMP of San Francisco, the Danish PENG, PhotoHouse, the Canadian VIGOUR, the Greek UnTold and Assuré of Amsterdam.
During the Venice Art Biennale in 2016, with the Underwater City collection I created a traveling exhibition at the bottom of the swimming pool of the Belmond Hotel Cipriani, where guests armed with swimsuits and snorkels could visit it by diving into the pool, immersing themselves in my visionary underwater world .
I have exhibited in more than 15 solo exhibitions, 20 collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The most relevant with the Underwater City collection during the Venice Art Biennale in 2016 and in Vienna and Pretoria in the respective Cultural Institutes.
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