Marco Rapaccini

Marco Rapaccini [Portrait] Marco Rapaccini [b.1982] is an Italian photographic artist whose practise explores the interplay between memory, place, and the passage of time. Drawing inspiration from both classical and contemporary influences, Rapaccini’s images balance documentary precision with a poetic sensibility. His practice often navigates themes of identity and solitude, using light and composition to create evocative visual storytelling.

Recently his practice has been focused on the cyanotype process. Utilising his skills and knowledge of this early photographic print process to create unique prints across a variety of different paper types and sizes. Frequently returning to the coastal dunes of his childhood, he reimagines and reconfigures these labyrinthine landscapes into multi-panelled artworks, while also documenting found objects as an integral part of his practice.
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“Litorali is an exploration of the coastal landscape of Castelporziano and Capocotta, a nature reserve near Rome, Italy. These are places I lived in the summer when I was a child, and when I visit them in the winter they alternate in me an alienating calm and the restlessness that comes with a walk through a sacred place. The dunes become islands, mountains, inaccessible tangles of brambles, always with the sound of the waves in the background. An important part of the work is made up of photographs of objects collected on walks: flowers, shells, cuttlefish bones… I chose to work with cyanotypes because it seemed perfectly suited to the nature of the work. It is a process of sedimentation and erosion that forms the image, eventually stabilising but remaining alive.” — Marco Rapaccini

Marco Rapaccini has an ability to transform the ordinary into something profoundly beautiful and introspective. His photographs possess a quiet intensity that lingers with the viewer, inviting contemplation and emotional resonance.
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Marco Rapaccini is a photographer and educator who has dedicated himself full-time to photography since 2006. In 2008, he co-founded the photographic collective Nove, and his work has been widely exhibited, including at FotoGrafia – Festival Internazionale di Roma [007, 2008, 2010, 2012], Fotoleggendo [2008], and venues such as the Museum of Rome in Trastevere [2009], Ex Gil [2008], and Casa del Jazz [2007]. His photographs have been published by Postcart and Punctum Editions, and since 2012, Marco has overseen the educational programs at Officine Fotografiche, a leading photography institution in Rome. More recently, his work was exhibited at the InCadaqués Photo Festival, Spain [2024].

In recent years, his artistic practice has focused on photographic explorations of the landscape, as well as analogue and alternative printing techniques, deepening his engagement with the materiality of the photographic image.

All artworks listed below are hand-printed and toned by the artist in their studio in Rome.

Unique, hand toned cyanotype prints
Prices range from £300—3,500

For all artwork enquiries
Contact | tom@opendoors.gallery

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LINKS

EXHIBITION | InCadaqués Photo Festival, 2024

PRESS | Juliet, Contemporary Art Magazine