Marco Raugei
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artist: Marco Raugei
title: Sailboats
inventory: MR-3334
media: Ink on paper
size: 29 x 22 inches
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artist: Marco Raugei
title: Stingrays
inventory: MR-3335
media: Ink on paper
size: 15.5 x 22 inches
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artist: Marco Raugei
title: Queste sono il pesci (These are the fish), 1992
inventory: MR-3949
media: Ink on paper
size: 14 x 19.5 inches
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Marco Raugei (B. 1958-2006)
Marco Raugei was born in Florence, Italy to a working class family. His father was an alcoholic. Marco and his brother were diagnosed with schizophrenia as children.
From his earliest childhood Marco was placed into different institutions. Since 1977 Raugei has resided in his parents home due to new psychiatric legislation. In 1986 he began attending La Tinaia, an artists' workshop near Florence becoming involved with the group and developing his drawing skills. Around 1988 he discovered the idea of "repetition of his subjects … to fill a page".
Marco has his own place at the work table where he draws starting with a single image such as a flower pot, an umbrella, or a car, and then repeating the image obsessively in neat horizontal rows, repeating each row of images above the other, working until the page is full. He is left-handed and starts his Drawing at the bottom left corner. When he reaches the top the picture is done.
In 2001 Raugei's work was displayed along with a small group of other artists in a traveling exhibition from the collection of Bruno Decharme as part of "ABCD: a Collection of Art Brut" at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. The exhibition was exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center in Spring of 2003.
