I paint for my pleasure,

Even if you don't share this pleasure with me, I still love you

In the unique universe of lyrical abstraction, few can boast of being able to analyse an artist’s creative meanders with almost perfect accuracy. In Marchi’s works, we find ourselves singularly situated between the artist’s powerful imagination as seen in his “outburst” combined with formal and tonal aestheticism.  Really acknowledging his passion for painting as a child, Marchi talks with nostalgia about the privileged moments spent with Fernand Leger, or about his brief encounter with Salvador Dali, who he met only once,  the Catalonian master having made a comment on the young man’s expression. Today maturity has brought him all certainties and doubts so necessary to an artist in constant evolution, eager to show himself at his best. Marchi belongs to the race of painters who passed the ever lasting conflict between the abstract pur and hard and the figurative traditional art.