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Marco Pittori

Marco Pittori


Born in 1978, Swiss artist Marco Pittori has been exhibiting internationally since 1999. He studied at the School of Design in Aarau, Switzerland working in stone, gravure, screen, and letterpress. Pittori has always worked with photography and uses his own or the licensed photographs of others, such as renowned Los Angeles photographer Brad Elterman.

The artist states of Elterman’s photos, "Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready.” Pittori collects and edits the images, adding additional points of interest throughout the photograph. The current series of Pittori’s multi-layered photographs are based on Brad Elterman’s iconic images “Behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977”. The motifs are carefully placed and layered until they reveal a whole new reality, then they are set in a new context and transformed with the help of strong colors. Pittori creates vibrant pieces that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970s Hollywood.

Pittori’s artworks have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

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Marco Pittori was born in Switzerland in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Aarau, Switzerland working in stone, gravure, screen, and letterpress. Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970’s Hollywood. By using licensed images of Brad Elterman’s photographs, he provides viewers with a window into a fascinating and exclusive time on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip.  

Looking through Elterman’s photographs, one can quickly realize that he wasn’t the average teenager growing up in the 1970s. Rather, his celebrity photographs attest that he was living the dream. As his classmates munched on Cap’n Crunch and listened to the new Runaway’s record, Brad hung at the infamous Tropicana Motel with Joan Jett. On weekends, he swam with The Sex Pistols, frequented the Playboy Mansion, and casually grabbed late night grub with Joey Ramone. Young and clever, Brad knew where to be and how to get in. With his cool demeanor and Bob Dylan hairstyle, he fit the part. At the age of 17, Brad became one of Hollywood’s most influential celebrity photographers, providing uncensored documentation of the gritty-glamorous life of 1970′s Rock n’ Roll. 

Marco Pittori states of Elterman’s photos, "Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready.” 

Some of Marco Pittori’s multi-layered photographs are based on Brad Elterman’s iconic images “Behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977”. The imagery is carefully layered until the artworks reveal a whole new reality. Pittori’s artworks have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

Marco Pittori was born in Switzerland in 1978. He studied at the School of Design in Aarau, Switzerland working in stone, gravure, screen, and letterpress. Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970’s Hollywood. By using licensed images of Brad Elterman’s photographs, he provides viewers with a window into a fascinating and exclusive time on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip.  

Looking through Elterman’s photographs, one can quickly realize that he wasn’t the average teenager growing up in the 1970s. Rather, his celebrity photographs attest that he was living the dream. As his classmates munched on Cap’n Crunch and listened to the new Runaway’s record, Brad hung at the infamous Tropicana Motel with Joan Jett. On weekends, he swam with The Sex Pistols, frequented the Playboy Mansion, and casually grabbed late night grub with Joey Ramone. Young and clever, Brad knew where to be and how to get in. With his cool demeanor and Bob Dylan hairstyle, he fit the part. At the age of 17, Brad became one of Hollywood’s most influential celebrity photographers, providing uncensored documentation of the gritty-glamorous life of 1970′s Rock n’ Roll. 

Marco Pittori states of Elterman’s photos, "Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready.” 

Some of Marco Pittori’s multi-layered photographs are based on Brad Elterman’s iconic images “Behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977”. The imagery is carefully layered until the artworks reveal a whole new reality. Pittori’s artworks have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

EXHIBITIONS
2021-23 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Gallery Ahoi Port Adriano, Mallorca (with Udo Lindenberg, Gunter Sachs), Spain
2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
2015 New York Affordable Art Fair, New York
2013 Gallery Lumas, Zurich, Vienna, Munich
Cultural Association Muttenz, Switzerland
Peach Editions, New York
Galerie Hamburg Kennedy, New York
2012 Galerie Eulenspiegel "Nude Hollywood", Basel, Switzerland
2011 Galerie Zero, Art Plan-B Project, Berlin, Germany
Kunst und Stadthalle Zug, "Pop Art in Zug", Switzerland Galerie Ohne Titel, Winterthur, Switzerland
Artspace Warehouse, Basel Junction L.A., Los Angeles
2010 Gallery Lumas, New York 
Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Workshop Wolfensberger, Atelier Exhibition with Dominique Lämmli, Celcile Wick, Samuel Burri, Switzerland
International Symposium on lithography, Tidaholm, Sweden
"pop art train" with Sam Shaw and Jörg Döring
2009 Gallery Lumas, Stuttgart "fabulous Las Vegas", Germany
Gallery Eulenspiegel "Artists of the Gallery", Switzerland
Gallery Münchow, Zurich, "pop is hot", Switzerland
Gallery Kunstreich, Bern, Switzerland
Train, "modern art and Town Hall way turn"
Gallery Münchow, Zurich, "urban street art", Switzerland
2008 Photo L.A., Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles with Baltasar Burkhart, A. Strba, Stefanie Schneider
Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles
Gallery Eulenspiegel, Basel pure pop art (with Steve Kaufman, former Assistant to A. Warhol), Switzerland
2007 Galerie Thoma & Thoma, Basel with Brad Elterman "Like it was Yesterday", Switzerland
Gallery of Lumas, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt with St. Schneider, M. A. Strba, Germany
Galerie Louise Grossenbach, Winterthur, Switzerland
Photo Miami, Gallery Scalo Guye, Los Angeles with Baltasar Burkhart, A. Strba, Stefanie, Schneider, D. Armstrong
2006 Gallery i9, Regensdorf, Switzerland
Black art 8, Effingen 
Art room 06, lower factory, Sissach, Switzerland
2005 V Gallery, "Angel", Basel, Switzerland
Gallery Thoma & Thoma Edition 500 with B. Luginbühl, O. Mansutti 1999 Gallery of St. marks, Australia
2004 Gallery i9, Regensdorf
2002-03 Christmas exhibition District 6, Zurich, Switzerland
2000-02 Young, Olten, Förderung durch artig
2000 Pathologie, Basel 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017  Hell Gallery 22, Muttenz, Switzerland
2016  Gutenberg Museum, Fribourg, Switzerland
2015  Gallery Beatrice Brunner, Bern, Switzerland
Birshof, 'Hello Katie', Münchenstein, Switzerland
2012  Sichtbar Hamburg, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Germany
2011  Arlesheim Apartments, Switzerland
2010  Galerie Eulenspiegel "Cafe Dallas", Basel, Switzerland
2007  Galerie Louise Grossenbach, Winterthur, Switzerland
2004-06  Coop, Muttenz, Switzerland
2002-04  Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland
2002  Castle fields estate, Basel, Switzerland
1999  Pathologie, Basel, Switzerland

PUBLIC WORKS/COLLECTIONS
2013 Sammlung Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank, Liestal
Sammlung Migros Bank, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Ramones Museum, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Arthur Cohn
2011 Nachlass Sammlung Gunter Sachs
2008-10 Rist management, Switzerland
2006 Gruner AG, Basel, Switzerland
Psychiaterische services, Liestal, Switzerland
2005 Bank of Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2004-07 Birshof clinic, Münchenstein, Switzerland
2003-05 Kantonalbank Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2002-04 Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland

PUBLICATIONS

2017        Catalog 'Electric Video Rattlesnake'

2015        Catalog "design studios are kind of like museums ..."

2014        Edition Multiple Bern

Catalog "Shoot-shoot the beautiful"

2013        illustrations for "Radio-Raurach" -the book

2012        Catalog for the exhibition "Ton-Art / Ton-Werk"

Catalog "Dirty Bleached Fireworks" (Works 2006 - 2012)

JIMON Art Fashion Magazine, Art Report, Los Angeles, USA

2010        Lithography "Memphis"

2009        Book “Künstler waren Kinder” in Wolfsberg Verlag, Switzerland

2007        Lithography Foundation Louise Grossenbach, Switzerland

2006        Serigraph Gruner AG, Switzerland

Art calendar Basel artists, Verlag Schaub Medien Sissach, Switzerland

2005        Illustrations for COOP magazine Forte, Switzerland

Lithographs for exhibition 2006

2004        various lithographs for exhibitions

2003        Lithography for graphical Forum, Zurich, Switzerland

2002        Praline packaging for Rondo AG, Allschwil, Switzerland