Mar­co Fusinato

Born Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia 1964

Lives and works in Melbourne

Mar­co Fusina­to is a con­tem­po­rary artist and noise- musi­cian whose work takes the form of instal­la­tion, pho­to­graph­ic repro­duc­tion, design, per­for­mance and record­ing.
As an artist, he con­ceives his work as a suc­ces­sion of inter­re­lat­ed projects, some of which con­tin­ue across numer­ous iter­a­tions. With­in these projects the works are almost always ser­i­al and use spe­cif­ic frame­works for exper­i­men­ta­tion, as if demon­strat­ing a the­sis. Work­ing across dis­ci­plines and cul­tur­al fields, Fusina­to explores the ten­sions and con­tra­dic­tions of oppos­ing forces: under­ground culture/​institutions, noise/​silence, minimalism/​maximalism, purity/​contamination. He cre­ates dynam­ic sit­u­a­tions in which these ener­gies are cap­tured by com­bin­ing alle­gor­i­cal appro­pri­a­tion with an inter­est in the inten­si­ty of a ges­ture or event.
Fusinato’s work has been pre­sent­ed in many inter­na­tion­al exhi­bi­tions, includ­ing All the World’s Futures, 56^th Inter­na­tion­al Art Exhi­bi­tion of La Bien­nale di Venezia (2015); The Immi­nence of Poet­ics, 30^th Sao Paulo Bien­nale (2012); SUPER­PO­SI­TION: Art of Equi­lib­ri­um and Engage­ment, 21^st Bien­nale of Syd­ney (2018); and Aus­tralia: Antipodean Sto­ries, Padiglione d’Arte Con­tem­po­ranea, Milan (2019). His work was also includ­ed in Sound­ings: A Con­tem­po­rary Score, the first ever exhi­bi­tion of sound at the Muse­um of Mod­ern Art, New York (2013) and Son­ic Youth etc.: Sen­sa­tion­al Fix (2008 – 10), a Euro­pean trav­el­ling exhi­bi­tion of artists that have col­lab­o­rat­ed with the New York rock band, Son­ic Youth.
Fusina­to has held reg­u­lar solo exhi­bi­tions at Anna Schwartz Gallery since 2006 includ­ing EXPER­I­MEN­TAL HELL (ATMO­SPHÆRAM)(2021); THIS IS NOT MY WORLD (2019); Mass Black Implo­sion (2017); The Infini­tives (2015); Mass Black Implo­sion (Trea­tise, Cor­nelius Cardew) (2013); THERE IS NO AUTHOR­I­TY (2012); Noise & Cap­i­tal­ism (2010); Dou­ble Infini­tives (2009) and The Approach­ing of The Dis­co Void-Repeat­ed (2006). He has exhib­it­ed in numer­ous solo and group exhi­bi­tions in Aus­tralian gal­leries and muse­ums includ­ing The Nation­al: New Aus­tralian Art, Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia (2017), Syd­ney; Par­al­lel Col­li­sions, Ade­laide Bien­nale of Aus­tralian Art, Art Gallery of South Aus­tralia, Ade­laide (2012); Mel­bourne Now, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne (2013); New09, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Mel­bourne (2009); and mul­ti­ple iter­a­tions of Dark Mofo, Muse­um of Old and New Art, Hobart (2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014). In 2012 he pre­sent­ed The Col­or of the Sky Has Melt­ed a sur­vey exhi­bi­tion at Art­space, Syd­ney and IMA, Bris­bane.
As a musi­cian Fusina­to explores the idea of noise as music, using the elec­tric gui­tar and mass ampli­fi­ca­tion to impro­vise intri­cate, wide-rang­ing and phys­i­cal­ly affect­ing fre­quen­cies. His ongo­ing series of dura­tional noise-gui­tar per­for­mances Spec­tral Arrows – described as a mon­u­men­tal aur­al sculp­ture – was first per­formed at The Glas­gow Inter­na­tion­al Arts Fes­ti­val in 2012 and has since been per­formed in muse­ums and the­atres world­wide. He also per­forms reg­u­lar­ly in the exper­i­men­tal music under­ground, pri­mar­i­ly as a solo artist. Fusinato’s first record­ings were released in 1996 and he has released many more over sub­se­quent decades, pri­mar­i­ly on vinyl for­mat.
Fusina­to was the recip­i­ent of an Aus­tralia Coun­cil for the Arts Fel­low­ship in 2016
Fusina­to is cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ing Aus­tralia at the 59^th Inter­na­tion­al Art Exhi­bi­tion of the Venice Bien­nale in a 200 day dura­tional performance.

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