Marco Fusinato

Born 1964 Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia
Lives and works in Mel­bourne, Australia

Mar­co Fusina­to is a con­tem­po­rary artist and noise-musi­cian whose work takes the form of instal­la­tion, pho­to­graph­ic repro­duc­tion, 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. Work­ing across dis­ci­plines and cul­tur­al fields, Fusina­to explores the ten­sions and con­tra­dic­tions of oppos­ing forces such as under­ground cul­ture ver­sus insti­tu­tions, noise ver­sus silence, min­i­mal­ism ver­sus max­i­mal­ism, puri­ty ver­sus 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.

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. He per­forms reg­u­lar­ly in the exper­i­men­tal music under­ground, pri­mar­i­ly as a solo artist and has released many record­ings on vinyl format.

Mar­co Fusina­to was select­ed to rep­re­sent Aus­tralia at the 59^th Inter­na­tion­al Art Exhi­bi­tion of La Bien­nale di Venezia (2022) in which he pre­sent­ed DESAS­TRES, a 200-day per­for­mance as instal­la­tion, the only artist in its 100-year his­to­ry to occu­py a nation’s pavil­ion for the entire­ty of the Bien­nale. His work has also been pre­sent­ed in many oth­er sig­nif­i­cant 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 Bien­ni­al (2012) and SUPER­PO­SI­TION: Art of Equi­lib­ri­um and Engage­ment, 21^st Bien­nale of Syd­ney (2018). His work was 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 – 2010), a Euro­pean trav­el­ling exhi­bi­tion of artists that have col­lab­o­rat­ed with the New York rock band, Son­ic Youth. Fusinato’s 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 through­out the world.