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ON A QUEST FOR THE BEST
Born on the 17th of April 1970 in Vienna, Austria, Marco Riha started his long creative journey in Sri Lanka in the mid-nineties. After painting and travelling for some years, he found his creative home base in Mexico.
André Breton describes Surrealism as ‘psychic automatism in its pure state.’ For decades Riha has been experimenting with this automatic painting technique, unaware of being a modern-day surrealist. One of Riha’s inspirations was a Québécois artistic dissidents movement called 'Les Automatistes'. Their 'total refusal', unacademic approach to art encouraged the autodidact artist to continue with his unique explorations.
Experimentations with all types of mediums include a long fascination with oils on canvas - a symbolic period filled with therapeutic releases, inner and outer travel logs and first screams in color. The 'colorDrops' series from 2014 mark the beginning of Riha’s abstract works. This current period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, tolerance, ecocide, division and unity.
Marco Riha has been published in various art magazines worldwide and his work has been shown internationally, like the Saatchi and FOLD Gallery in London, the Fondazione Palmieri in Lecce or most recently at the Rome Art Week '23.
EXHIBITIONS
2023/10 Rome Art Week by Rossocinabro Gallery, Roma. IT
2023/05 TRACCE DEL TEMPO by Primopiano LivinGallery, Lecce, IT
2021/11 Dubai Art Expo, UAE
2021/10 Tokyo International Art Fair, Roppongi, JP
2021/09 Fold Gallery, “colour of emotion” London, UK
2021/08 Saatchi Gallery, “colour of life”, London, UK
2021/06 Atelier Richelieu, “share your identity”, Paris, FR
2019 Artboxprojects Miami, US
2019 Jardín Botánico, “artistas por la paz”, Puerto Morelos, MX
2018 Olympus Tours Gallery, collective expo “alas” Cancun, MX
2017 Artboxprojects Basel, CH
2015 Las Galerías, “exposición de arte”, Puerto Morelos, MX
2013 Hotel Asiana, „behind the surface“, Dubai, UAE
2011 Galerie am Schillerplatz, “wanderjahre”, Wien, AT
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
2023/06 Insights of an Eco Artist, Lisbon, PT
2023/06 Art Radar by New & Abstract, Berlin, DE
2023/01 Smart Artist Hub, London, UK
2022 ARTMAGAZINEUM, Istanbul, TR, Cover Issue07
2021 Artist of the Month, ARTJOBS.COM
2021 Winner of Special Prize, Mellow Art Award, Japan
2021 ArteVisualMexico, MX, Issue 01 & 04
2020 Arthabens Contemporary Art Review, London, UK, Issue09
2020 AlTiba9 Contemporary Art, Algiers, DZ, Issue04
2019 WOTISART? London, UK, Issue12
2018 La Verdad Noticias, Cancun, MX, Issue01
bleeding on heaven's door, mixed mediums on wood panell, 85x61cm, Diptych, 2023
Rome Art Week '23
BEHIND THE CANVAS
Inside perspective into the Art of Marco Riha
QUEST
a modern heroic epic
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