One Step Closer
This year we have continued to add to our amazing archive of sitters and really happy to have added Dame Judi Dench to the Project
Cover Black and White Photography Magazine = 2025
Sanges Studio at The Adria, South Kensington 2026
We currently have works placed within the beautiful Adria for Acquisition
Dimbola Museum Exhibition 2025 alongside the works of the Incredible Lee Miller
Dimbola Museum Invite
Waterfront Magazine
BBC Feature
One Step Closer
The latest collection from Sanges is ONE STEP CLOSER. Through the auction of a series of photographic portraits of high profile artists, we aim to raise funds in support of Under One Sky, a London-based not-for-profit charity set up to support vulnerable communities in society. As the artists take One Step Closer to the camera, contributions will help bring us all One Step Closer to a better, more equitable future for all. Together, we can reshape the narrative surrounding homelessness and transform the lives of those in need.
ONE STEP CLOSER debuted at the DImbola Museum & Galleries this year and will continue to exhibit in the UK throughout 2025. For more information visit: www.onestepcloser.uk
Marco Sanges at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | ArtSlant
Marco's portrait series 12 n'3 became part of the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
"We are delighted that Marco Sanges's Portrait Series, 12 n' 3 (2005; gelatin silver print ) has become part of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's acclaimed permanent collection during our 75th year."
Alex Nyerges, Director VMFA
"This is the first work by Sanges in VMFA’s collection. Sanges began his career as a fashion photographer working for magazines such as Vogue Italia. Now based in London, he has begun to garner increased recognition for his highly cinematic approach. He frequently imbues his images with the strongly lit, dramatic effects of the silent film era of the 1920s. While many of Sanges’ black-and-white photographs from his Portrait Series feature the amplified gestures of actors, 12 n’3 offers only the fleshy back of a man’s head. Although it stands in stark contrast to other works in the series, it effectively demonstrates the way in which Sanges’ stylistic techniques develop a character out of an economy of means."
John B. Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, VMFA Source: Artslant
‘Von Hagens’ Exhibit by Sanges at Munich’s Olympic Park
The Olympic Park in Munich hosts ‘Von Hagens’ by Sanges, an eerie yet artistic exploration of plastinator Gunther von Hagens’ work. The photo exhibit will run alongside the plastinator’s ’BODY WORLDS’ display from June 12 to October 5.
Gunther van Hagens is a German anatomist who invented a technique called Plastination, which involves embalming and preserving biological tissue specimens in plastic; and founded the Institute of Plastination in Heidelberg in 1993. Von Hagens goes beyond preserving human bodies; after preservation the bodies are posed as if they are alive, creating an eerie but creative display of lifelike yet lifeless bodies. Von Hagens’ ’BODY WORLDS exhibition has toured in different continents, and is scheduled to run at Munich’s Olympic Park accompanied by Sanges’ photo exhibit.
‘Von Hagens’ is inspired by Rembrandt’s ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp,’ an oil painting by the Baroque artist that shows Dr. Tulp explaining the muscular structure of a human arm to a group of medical practitioners. Sanges’ images have an old-world, unnerving charm that combines the scientific with the surreal.
"The project Von Hagens by Sanges is a very sophisticated series of photographs, inspired by Rembrandt’s well-known Anatomy Lesson. It consists of mystical and yet almost hilarious photographic images, starring Gunther von Hagens, famous for his plastinated bodies. The photographs reflect not only the omnipresent reference to death but are at the same time also celebrating life and the moment."
- Edwin Becker, Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
“Von Hagens by Sanges”
Art photography
KÖRPERWELTEN (BODY WORLDS) Exhibition
at the Kleine Olympiahalle, Munich
Source: Lomography.com
Marco Sanges | Wall Street International Art
There is something remarkable about those pictures, something unforeseen and new.
From his childhood and adolescence every “signal” that his brain perceives from any reaction towards objects that has the slightest signs of artistic form, or in more broader genre of films, paintings, Marco instinctively relates these with Edward Manet, Max Ernst, E. Hopper, Eisenstein, Hitchcock, etc. then stores them, which through the “scanning” is like a violent tormented waterfall of conglomerated characters, scenes, geometric forms and narratives. At the early age Marco started to work at his uncle’s photographic lab and became fascinated by the crafts and the process of developing and printing black and white photography.
Dazzled by fashion, he became a photographer for Vogue Italia before moving to London, where he now lives. Greatly attracted to cinema and in particular the luminous Black and White films of the silent era, Sanges creates photographs in sequence. Every sequence tells a unique, multi-layered story, creating a highly personal, imaginary cinema. Bigger than life characters and stories lavish costume and the core, reminiscent of Surrealism and especially the Visual and Performing Arts of the ‘20s and ‘30s he sets the scene, as a scene in a film unfolds a story. Magnifying imagination beyond imagination there is dedication to the often elaborate projects that are staged as a live theatrical performance The surrealistic feel of his work represents the liberation of the unconscious, as a means to create art outside the boundaries of official culture, the rejection of established values and a concrete effort to illustrate extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds, all elements typical of ‘Outside Art’. There is also an enchanting, yet dark side, to his work, an intriguing depth that appears to be destined to highlight the drama of life and capture the sincerity of the journey, the scenes of intimacy that confront human vulnerability, challenging our own fragility.
Sanges’ double award winning short film Circumstances (Best Art Film – Portobello Film Festival, London 2008 and Best Experimental Art Video, Open Cinema, St Petersburg, Russia, 2009) has been screened all around the World.
Marco’ s work makes the spectators enter an emotional journey and loose themselves in the narrative, visual richness and the power of story telling. His exhibitions bring together the work of an artist who is passionate about life in its entirety and continues to evoke, transcend, and excite the world! Source: Wall Street International Art
Sex, Surrealism and Sanges | Esquire
Meant with the greatest of respect, one would be forgiven for mistaking the work of Marco Sanges with that of an artist long deceased. His work however, in all its sultry grayscale glory, is as contemporary as it comes. In fact it was only last year that Sanges was recognised with two major awards for his short film "Circumstances".
Sanges' latest exhibition of photographic work, "Big Scenes" follows suit from a recent show in New York curated by Eileen Guggenheim and another in the slightly less glamorous surrounds of Hackney curated by Gavin Turk.
Surreal, erotic and channeling the decadent aesthetic of early 20th century photography Sanges' work is shot in and around London and features both actors and ordinary people.
"Big Scenes" is now on show at Hay Hill Gallery, Cork Street, London until 13 September. Source: esquire.co.uk