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Marco Raugei
Italian nationality
Born in 1958
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| Marco Raugei comes from a working class. He goes to
elementary school for five years, but unable to adjust, he is placed in
special education institutions. He lives at home but since 1986 has been
going to la Tinaia, an art workshop at the psychiatric Hospital of San Salvi
in Florence. La Tinaia, as Gugging, is not really an art therapy center
but a place where anyone can express his or her feelings freely. |
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| Marco Raugei always talks while he draws, mumbling
incomprehensible psalms in different voices. His artistic style is a repetition
of motifs. He gets his inspiration from everyday life. His replications
end when the page ends. This repetitive obsession is similar to a ritual
incantation of which the voice is one of the essential components. The simple
drawing cannot make us, however, aware of all these elements. |
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| SEE ALSO: Publications de la Collection de
l'Art Brut, fascicule 17, text of Dana Simionescu, Lausanne, 1992. |
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