Marco Noris, the painting of cruelty

Barcelona Cultura · 01.03.2017 · Last update: 21.06.2026 · Translation: AI · Project It wasn't the sun · Topics: barcelona cultura, press, exhibitions, galleries, barcelona, no era el sol

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Recommendation published on Barcelona Cultura (Barcelona City Council), in Catalan, on the occasion of the «No era el sol» exhibition at the Galeria Trama (2 March – 4 April 2017). The copy on this website is my personal archive.

The Barcelona-based Italian artist shows part of his work at the Trama gallery, under the overall title «No era el sol».

Marco Noris (Bergamo, 1971) understands painting as a way of casting out his inner demons. When you look at one of his oils, what you see is a collection of horrible things: barren landscapes, deformed faces, grimaces, which are in fact a metaphor for the ugliness of the outer world. For years, Noris has been working on the theme of cruelty in contemporary humankind, on all those evils we still commit as a supposedly civilised society: civil wars, the exile of refugees, the danger that lurks at the borders, mass graves, and so on. Much of this production can now be seen at the Galeria Trama, where Marco Noris shows his work under the title No era el sol.

What Marco Noris proposes with his paintings is not so much that we look at them, but that, by looking at them, we take a glance inside ourselves. That we examine our feelings, to see whether we are full of good thoughts or of a cruel breath. Marco Noris works mainly with the technique of oil on canvas, but the technique is not the most important thing: it is his deformed figuration, the way it reflects horror, and how that strikes us, that one must draw from an experience the artist himself defines as «the triumph of defeat».

Noris’s work can be visited until 4 April, when the exhibition closes. The last days, then, for an inner examination and to look evil straight in the eye. There is more information on the Galeria Trama website.

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