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Marco Tirelli: Galleria D'arte Moderna.(Bologna)(the last ten years of the painter's activity is represented in this exhibition)

Artforum International,  October, 2003  by Carboni, Massimo

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In this exhibition, which represents the last ten years of Marco Tirelli's activity, the artist attempted to draw our attention to the internal coherence that characterizes his work over time. While the consistent foundation for Tirelli's art is geometric abstraction, his paintings are not rigidly rationalist, deterministic, aprioristic, or deductive.

The artist does not devise disembodied schemas, and his forms, volumes, and spaces--while primary, even elementary--are not ideal essences but instead seem impregnated by the empirical concreteness of experience as we perceive it. ...

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