Photo credit: Maria Cristina Vimercati
Marcello Vigoni was born in 1979 in Milan, where he lives and works.
His artistic career took its first steps in the world of advertising and graphics, then continued on two parallel tracks: on the one hand the world of communication (which led him in 2006 to found the 2006 to the founding of the TLS agency, with which he will realise national and international advertising campaigns, and to the conception and realisation of events as Art Director), on the other hand that of photography, understood not only as technical experimentation, but rather as constant research of expression.
Photography – preferred in its black and white analogue form – is in fact used by the artist not so much to reproduce reality as to investigate it beyond the boundaries of the ‘visible’, revealing a world that seems to spring directly from his mind. In his works, characterised by a surreal and metaphysical inspiration, a dreamlike universe takes shape that dialogues with the observer, putting him in direct contact with his own subconscious and memories. His are introspective images full of a cultured and refined symbology, the result of tireless research and studies that the artist carries out on a daily basis.
Vigoni loves to investigate opposites and put them in contact to create a connection and narrate the reality in which we live. His poetics is characterised above all by research into social issues cultural, philosophical and ethical issues concerning man’s not always easy relationship with nature, immersed as we are in an increasingly neurotic, fragmented and technological society.
His latest research also investigates the theme of the human figure through portraits and nudes. Vigoni has numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy and has received numerous recognitions, including international ones.