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
