MARINO MARINELLI - Italy -

CONTACTS: Lives and works in Trieste, at Via Antonio Baiamonti 101.
Tel. 040.830.544 – e-mail: marinelli.md@libero.it

Aurum Nostrum

The Grotto

acrylic, pastels and colored pencils on cotton paper cm 43.5 x 64.5

acrylic, pastel and pencil on linen canvas cm 95 x 109

Glimmers

acrylic, pastels and colored pencils on cotton paper cm 43.2 x 64.6

acrylic, pastels and colored pencils on cotton paper cm 43.5 x 64.5

Elixir

Introspection

acrylic, pastels on cotton canvas cm 95 x 100

acrylic, pastels and colored pencils on cotton paper cm 43.5 x 64.5

His Biography

MARINO MARINELLI was born in Trieste on 23 February 1954.

After completing secondary studies with a scientific focus, he graduated in architecture at the I.U.A.V. in Venice.
The beginnings of his artistic activity (early seventies) were influenced by an interest in Impressionist painting, and his first works interpreted the most typical aspects of the local landscape, filtered and mediated by the emotional impression it aroused.
Later, his interest in alchemy and esotericism led him to a gradual shift toward his current forms of artistic expression.
He staged his first solo exhibition in 1976. He later took part in various national and international competitions, earning awards and acclaim, and exhibited in group and solo shows in several Italian cities.

Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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1976
* “C. Sofianopulo” Hall, Trieste
1978
* “Il Carso” Club, Trieste
* “Tavolozza d’Oro” Art Gallery, Trieste
* Haarlem Gallery, Padua
1979
* “Mazzini” Art Gallery, Genoa
* Autonomous Spa and Tourism Board, Grado (Gorizia)
* “San Rocco” Auditorium, Grado (Gorizia)
1980
* Art Mondial Gallery, Milan
1981
* Municipal Art Hall, Trieste
* “Boccadasse” Art Gallery, Genoa
1984
* Art Expo Brescia, Brescia
* “Vicolo Quartirolo” Gallery, Bologna
1990
* Municipal Art Hall, Trieste
1991
* “Vicolo Quartirolo” Gallery, Bologna
1994
* Gnaccarini Studio, Bologna
1998
* F.V.G. Regional Airport, Ronchi dei Legionari (Gorizia)
2000
* Art Gallery, Trieste
2001
* A.P.T. Trieste exhibition halls, Sistiana (TS) headquarters
2003
* Municipal Art Hall – Trieste
2006
* “Onefit” Centre – Monza
* Rondò dei Pini – Monza
2007
* “Leonardo da Vinci” Cultural Centre – San Donà di Piave (VE)

Recent group exhibitions

2006 - Art Periscope, Czestochowa (Poland)
- Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice) – October 2006
2007 - “Gymnasium” Club – Trieste
- Autumn Salon of Triestine Art – Palazzo Costanzi – Trieste
2008 - Mulitsch Competition - Gorizia

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Claudio H. Martelli:
“Triestine Artists of the Twentieth Century”
ADA – Trieste, 1979

Art Expo Brescia
Expo Catalogue
Ente Italia Artistica – Trescai, 1981

Claudio H. Martelli:
“Artists of Trieste, the Isonzo Area, Istria and Dalmatia”
Hammerle Editore – Trieste, 1985

“John Paul II in Trieste”
Edizioni Vita Nuova – Trieste, 1992

Claudio H. Martelli:
“Dictionary of Artists of Trieste, the Isonzo Area, Istria and Dalmatia”
Hammerle Editore – Trieste, 1996

“From Trieste to Trieste”
Municipality of Trieste – Trieste, 2000.
Among those who have written about him:

Milko Bambic, Sergio Brossi, Aldo Castelpietra, Orfango Campigli, Luigi Danelutti, Elio Marcianò, Claudio H. Martelli, Sergio Micalesco, Lorenzo Michelli, Carlo Milic, Sergio Molesi, Giulio Montenero, Alerino Musiani, Gabriella Niero, Livio Officia, Silvia Ramini, Antongiulio Rizzo, Ardea Stanisic.

Reviews

“…he is a man who has embarked on an adventurous journey within his own existence to seek rules, reflections, universal thoughts. These are expressed in his pictorial constructions…..They are dark and shadowy, telling us of a descent into the recesses of the psyche and the soul, where crucibles, chalices, slits appear, ritual signs of initiation for introspection, for meditation” (Lorenzo Micheletti – “Il Piccolo”)

“…Marino Marinelli titled his exhibition “Toward Higher Worlds” and presented recent works with a surrealist atmosphere that bear witness to the point of arrival of this interesting artist, who took his first steps in the mid-seventies and was able to evolve his language through various phases of research. Today it can certainly be stated that the high level achieved is also the result of the architecture studies he completed and of applications in construction and design, which enabled him to attain a precise sense of space …..” (Antongiulio Rizzo – “ArteCultura” June 2003)

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