Marco Tirelli's First French Museum Solo Show Opens at MAMC+

Marco Tirelli (Rome, 1956) presents his first solo exhibition in a French museum at MAMC+ Saint-Étienne Métropole. The show features 500 drawings from his personal archive, displayed on a single wall measuring 7.60 m high and 27.40 m long, with 400 drawings covering the central wall. The installation is conceived as a wunderkammer containing hundreds of subjects, from everyday objects to architectures, animals, maps, and geometries, functioning as an open laboratory of ideas and images—a sort of private vocabulary. The arrangement recalls Tirelli's presentation at the Italian Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Curated by Ludovico Pratesi, the exhibition runs until February 12, 2017. Tirelli, a key figure of the Gruppo di Via Ausoni, describes each image as not a subject but the evocation and transfiguration of a form, a signal that triggers the power of imagination.