Marco Castentini

Marco Casentini is a contemporary Italian painter. Characterized by their bright palettes, Casentini’s works often feature a riot of sienna yellow and vivid greens—colors that evoke the northern Italian Lombardy landscape. In 1996, the artist traveled throughout the United States, an experience which would further impact the colors used in his work, inviting a new sense of light and earthy hues. “My paintings are inspired by urban space—by the geometry of its forms and its architecture,” he has said. “Our lives are full of geometry. There are a variety of ways to work with these forms. You can use geometric shapes to create rhythms and tensions or quiet and relaxing spaces.” Cantina is the recipient of the 2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and has had solo museum exhibitions at The Bakersfield Museum of Art, The Riverside Art Museum, CAMeC, Torrance Art Museum, and the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, among others.