Marco Paleari

Desio (MB), IT – 1998

Lives and works in Milan, IT.

From 2017 to 2023, he completed both the BA and MA in Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He is co-founder and artistic director of ExAmato, where he presented his first solo exhibition, Sembra facile ma non è difficile (2022).

He has taken part in group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including FORTUNATO (Galleria Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan), Grand Tour (Galleria Cartavetra, Florence), Alberobello Contemporary Art (Museo del Territorio, Alberobello), MORE (Hangzhou, China), Salon Palermo 4 (Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo), and Iconorama (Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan). In 2024 he presented his second solo exhibition, Fuori la rivoluzione ed io mi vesto di bianco, at Settantaventidue on the occasion of Milano Drawing Week.His practice spans drawing and painting, re-reading sacred and secular iconographies from the history of Western painting—with a focus on Italian and Northern European Renaissance and later Mannerist production—in an effort to update them, at times through irony or tragicomic inflection. His work also includes the production of short films in collaboration with various artists and videomakers.