biography

Alberto Magrin studied architecture at the University of Genoa. He underwent a brief stint in the theatre after having obtained a scholarship to study alongside sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro at University of Urbino. He was awared the ’Libertas Prize’ for visual arts and literature by MP Ferri and collaborated in the creation of the ’G. A. Rol Scientific Association’ in Turin, the purpose of which was to demonstrate man’s victory over the time through the capacity of the individual spirit. In the meantime he was also awarded the ’Open Art Prize’ by MP Vita in Rome. He partecipated in founding of the International Digital Art Organization ONDA. He designed the ONDA Contemporary Art Museum in order to allow internationally renowned artists to construct their own permanent spaces and create a dialogue between themselves and eternity. Like a premonition and a symbol of ’ethernal nothingness’, this project represents the downfall and rebirth of the modern era. Through a series of donations, he succeeded in creating a worldwide network of art galleries, which he called ’Magreen Gallery’, the artworks of which are located in public and private institutions, thus eliminating every form of personal control or management over the works themselves. These artworks are currently held by some of the worlds most important permanent collections: The British Museum (London), MOCA (Los Angeles), Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast (Dusseldorf), Spazio Oberdan (Milan), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden), Musée des Beaux Arts (Lyon), Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea (Trento), CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum (Vatican City), The State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg). Publications: ’Alberto’ (Monograph – Guardamagna Editore, 2009), ’Brackets’ (Poems – Il Filo, 2010), ’The acrobats of time’ (Poems – Seneca Edizioni, 2011), ’Coincidences’ (Poems – Seneca Edizioni, 2012), ’Science, conscience, knowledge’ (Monograph – Il Geko Editions, 2015), ’The spiritual freedom’ (Monograph – 081grafica, 2018). He makes use of every artistic language, experimenting with new techniques. He lives and works in Rapallo (Italy).

The theory of coincidences

‘Coincidences’ determine an individual’s state of being, balanced and in harmony with the universe. In this sense, coincidences can be understood as nature’s purest law, and beyond nature they represent the perpetual bond between the relative and the absolute, as well as the birth of all forms of life and love. They’re a link between reality and imagination, between desire and fantasy, between the body and the spirit, between life and death. The importance of such moments should form the basis of all scientific, artistic, economic, political and religious laws, as they determine the existence and subsistence of human beings upon the Earth, as well as upon any other planet. As the laws indicated above, like their establishment, are inseparable from one another, this theory becomes the bond that could further the quest, the growth and the evolution of mankind.

Space : Sound = Light : Time

(Alberto Magrin)

Critical note

Alberto Magrin’s latest works arise from the ’Theory of Coincidences’ and are based on mediations suspended between the earth and the heavens, between the world of the mundane and that of dreams. Like a modern shaman, the artist receives messages and conveys them to us in the form of photographic images accessible to everyone. The lyricism that distinguishes his works becomes part of them thanks to an ironic play on randomness, a mapped out destiny that can only be made to blossom in our eyes through the artist’s sensitivity. Works derived from real life and recreated experiences, characterized by symbolic meaning, as if attempting to reinterpret the divine message.

biography

The theory of coincidences

Critical note

Exhibitions