by Marco Picone
Texture Paste and Pouring on Canvas
24” x 18”
Artist Biography
Marco Picone is an Italian contemporary artist currently based in the United States. A former Lieutenant Colonel and pilot in the Italian Air Force, his artistic practice emerged from a profound personal transition: leaving Italy, aviation, and his former life behind to follow love and rebuild identity through art.
His works combine texture, pouring techniques, sculptural surfaces, and unconventional canvas forms to create emotionally charged visual narratives. Through symbols deeply connected to Italian culture, memory, speed, fashion, and transformation, Picone explores themes of passage, displacement, identity, and emotional evolution.
His work seeks to transform painting into a physical and emotional experience where material itself becomes part of the storytelling.
Artist Statement
I do not paint objects or brands as symbols of luxury alone. I paint what they represent emotionally and culturally.
My work is deeply connected to Italian identity, memory, movement, and transformation. Ferrari, Valentino, Vespa, aviation, migration, and human relationships become visual languages through which I explore personal transition and emotional passage.
I use texture paste, pouring, sculptural material, and irregular surfaces because I believe emotions cannot exist inside perfect boundaries. The physicality of the work becomes part of the narrative itself.
After leaving Italy and moving to the United States, painting became a way to process distance, change, nostalgia, and reinvention. Every artwork is both personal and symbolic — suspended between past and future, heritage and transformation.
by Marco Picone
Texture Paste and Pouring on Canvas
24” x 18”
Artist Biography
Marco Picone is an Italian contemporary artist currently based in the United States. A former Lieutenant Colonel and pilot in the Italian Air Force, his artistic practice emerged from a profound personal transition: leaving Italy, aviation, and his former life behind to follow love and rebuild identity through art.
His works combine texture, pouring techniques, sculptural surfaces, and unconventional canvas forms to create emotionally charged visual narratives. Through symbols deeply connected to Italian culture, memory, speed, fashion, and transformation, Picone explores themes of passage, displacement, identity, and emotional evolution.
His work seeks to transform painting into a physical and emotional experience where material itself becomes part of the storytelling.
Artist Statement
I do not paint objects or brands as symbols of luxury alone. I paint what they represent emotionally and culturally.
My work is deeply connected to Italian identity, memory, movement, and transformation. Ferrari, Valentino, Vespa, aviation, migration, and human relationships become visual languages through which I explore personal transition and emotional passage.
I use texture paste, pouring, sculptural material, and irregular surfaces because I believe emotions cannot exist inside perfect boundaries. The physicality of the work becomes part of the narrative itself.
After leaving Italy and moving to the United States, painting became a way to process distance, change, nostalgia, and reinvention. Every artwork is both personal and symbolic — suspended between past and future, heritage and transformation.
