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Giuseppe Maraniello
Tuelo, 2005
Wood, acrylics and golden foil
60 x 200 cm
Tuelo, 2005
Wood, acrylics and golden foil
60 x 200 cm
Press Release
Giuseppe Maraniello
Attratti
Opening: January 15, 2015
January 16 – February 28, 2015
Attratti
Opening: January 15, 2015
January 16 – February 28, 2015
The Marconi Foundation is pleased to announce an anthologic exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Maraniello with works executed from the Seventies up to now.
Giuseppe Maraniello, born and educated in Naples, settled in Milan in 1971 where he started taking part in several exhibitions.
After making his debut in the age of experimentation of photography and video, he soon decided to look for new horizons and to devote himself to painting and to the traditional forms of art.
The influence of arte povera and conceptual art of the Sixties became a starting point which led him to a greater freedom of expression.
An attentive and sensible protagonist of contemporary art, the artist directed his creative vein to the recovery of myth and ancestral forms, re-interpreted and transposed into the plastic language of contemporary art.
Giuseppe Maraniello, born and educated in Naples, settled in Milan in 1971 where he started taking part in several exhibitions.
After making his debut in the age of experimentation of photography and video, he soon decided to look for new horizons and to devote himself to painting and to the traditional forms of art.
The influence of arte povera and conceptual art of the Sixties became a starting point which led him to a greater freedom of expression.
An attentive and sensible protagonist of contemporary art, the artist directed his creative vein to the recovery of myth and ancestral forms, re-interpreted and transposed into the plastic language of contemporary art.
Since the beginning of the Seventies Maraniello has been dealing with ancient art during his artistic path, mid-way between painting and sculpture, a challenge that led him to evaluate the possibility of a temporal dimension in order to undertake precise formal directions.
The fascination of his works comes from the fact that they are paintings and sculptures at the same time and from the artist’s ability of combining, in a magic coincidence, fleeting dialectic couples like ancient and modern, male and female, colour and shape, surface and volume, full and empty.
Through the elements of colour and shape, narration and abstraction, balance and unbalance, the artist creates his own universe of ironic, playful and symbolic creatures.
Patinas and colours, light and dark contrasts, and the equilibrium of volumes are wisely combined by him in a new and wilful iconographic vocabulary, with a special attention to the sculptural body and its memory.
The exhibition itinerary in the Marconi Foundations’s recently widened and renovated halls will present an overview on a 30-years, and more, relationship between Giuseppe Maraniello and, respectively, Studio Marconi, Giò Marconi and Fondazione Marconi.
On February 11, 2015 the Fondazione Marconi will present a catalogue, published by Cambi Editore and curated by Tommaso Trini.
A selection of small-sized works will be also on display at Studio Marconi ’65, at 17 of via Tadino to complement the exhibition.
The fascination of his works comes from the fact that they are paintings and sculptures at the same time and from the artist’s ability of combining, in a magic coincidence, fleeting dialectic couples like ancient and modern, male and female, colour and shape, surface and volume, full and empty.
Through the elements of colour and shape, narration and abstraction, balance and unbalance, the artist creates his own universe of ironic, playful and symbolic creatures.
Patinas and colours, light and dark contrasts, and the equilibrium of volumes are wisely combined by him in a new and wilful iconographic vocabulary, with a special attention to the sculptural body and its memory.
The exhibition itinerary in the Marconi Foundations’s recently widened and renovated halls will present an overview on a 30-years, and more, relationship between Giuseppe Maraniello and, respectively, Studio Marconi, Giò Marconi and Fondazione Marconi.
On February 11, 2015 the Fondazione Marconi will present a catalogue, published by Cambi Editore and curated by Tommaso Trini.
A selection of small-sized works will be also on display at Studio Marconi ’65, at 17 of via Tadino to complement the exhibition.