MarcelloJORI
Marcello Jori. Le Grand Jour à l’Île de la Grande Jatte
03.2015–04.2015
Marcello Jori. Le Grand Jour à l’Île de la Grande Jatte
03.2015–04.2015
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Press Release
Marcello Jori
Le Grand Jour à l’Île de la Grande Jatte
Opening: March 10, 2015
March 11 – April 11, 2015
Le Grand Jour à l’Île de la Grande Jatte
Opening: March 10, 2015
March 11 – April 11, 2015
The Marconi Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition by Marcello Jori.
Born in Merano in 1951, Jori is a versatile artist who works in a broad range of art forms, including painting, literature and illustration, photography and design.
Throughout his career, Jori has always pursued a “total art” approach, assuming a modern-day attitude to the Renaissance artist, a combination of painter, sculptor, architect and writer, who is inspired by every art form.
In the early Eighties he produced Cristalli, precious stones – containers of energy and light, which gave rise to the successful paintings in the series Giacimenti, Foreste, and Città.
In 1996, he published the book La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari, the ambitious project of a city painted for living artists who are destined for immortality, where every building is made to fit the size of their bodies; an ideal world in which the artist is creator and guardian.
In 2010, Fondazione Marconi presented Jori’s important project, Gli Albi dell’Avventura, a true distillation of his artistic approach and one that marks a significant turning point in his work. Marcello Jori invented and painted an “imaginary” friendship with Lucio Fontana, impossible in real life, producing a personal account of their work and emotions through words and pictures halfway between reality, storyboard and fantasy story.
Born in Merano in 1951, Jori is a versatile artist who works in a broad range of art forms, including painting, literature and illustration, photography and design.
Throughout his career, Jori has always pursued a “total art” approach, assuming a modern-day attitude to the Renaissance artist, a combination of painter, sculptor, architect and writer, who is inspired by every art form.
In the early Eighties he produced Cristalli, precious stones – containers of energy and light, which gave rise to the successful paintings in the series Giacimenti, Foreste, and Città.
In 1996, he published the book La città meravigliosa degli artisti straordinari, the ambitious project of a city painted for living artists who are destined for immortality, where every building is made to fit the size of their bodies; an ideal world in which the artist is creator and guardian.
In 2010, Fondazione Marconi presented Jori’s important project, Gli Albi dell’Avventura, a true distillation of his artistic approach and one that marks a significant turning point in his work. Marcello Jori invented and painted an “imaginary” friendship with Lucio Fontana, impossible in real life, producing a personal account of their work and emotions through words and pictures halfway between reality, storyboard and fantasy story.
The exhibition at the Marconi Foundation represents four years of preparation by the artist and marks the point of arrival and departure of an exploration “in which time has no beginning and no end; a place where artists are never dead and those who are alive will always be alive”.
It is an investigation that goes beyond time and space in order to encounter and experience art as a true spiritual place.
The works displayed on the ground and first floors of the Marconi Foundation are large-scale paintings made using diluted acrylic paints on handmade paper fused with canvas.
Jori defines them as “dream paintings on embossed paper similar to skin… Paintings that seem to be watercolours, so large they verge on the impossible.”
Here, the tutelary deity is Georges Seurat, “the friend” who is to be brought back to life and met with imagination in order to explore the Île de la Grande Jatte in Paris as it is today.
The real aesthetic meeting, however, is the one that occurs between “art” and “nature”: Seurat’s pointillism and the pointillism of the sky… in the form of snow.
To mark the occasion, the Marconi Foundation will present Quaderno della Fondazione Marconi n. 17 with texts by Bruno Cora, published by Cambi Editore.
Contemporaneously, Marcello Jori will edit a new book published by Skira in the series Gli Albi dell’Avventura with a text by Elena Re.
It is an investigation that goes beyond time and space in order to encounter and experience art as a true spiritual place.
The works displayed on the ground and first floors of the Marconi Foundation are large-scale paintings made using diluted acrylic paints on handmade paper fused with canvas.
Jori defines them as “dream paintings on embossed paper similar to skin… Paintings that seem to be watercolours, so large they verge on the impossible.”
Here, the tutelary deity is Georges Seurat, “the friend” who is to be brought back to life and met with imagination in order to explore the Île de la Grande Jatte in Paris as it is today.
The real aesthetic meeting, however, is the one that occurs between “art” and “nature”: Seurat’s pointillism and the pointillism of the sky… in the form of snow.
To mark the occasion, the Marconi Foundation will present Quaderno della Fondazione Marconi n. 17 with texts by Bruno Cora, published by Cambi Editore.
Contemporaneously, Marcello Jori will edit a new book published by Skira in the series Gli Albi dell’Avventura with a text by Elena Re.