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ANTONIO MARINO - Italy -

His studio Perugia Strada di Ponte d’Oddi nr. 8/M
email antoniomarinoartista@gmail.com

Me like you!

The scent of hope

graphite and acrylic on paper cm 20 x 30

graphite charcoal and gold leaf on red bole in relief for drapery on watercolor paper cm 35 x 5

Respect

Madness V.1.0

graphite and charcoal on watercolor paper 35 x 50 cm

soft pastels on pastelmat paper 35 x 50 cm

Tribute to Mother Teresa of Calcutta

graphite, pastel and textured acrylic on watercolor paper 35×50 cm

I won't give up!

graphite and acrylic on paper cm 48x33

His Biography

Figurative realist painter, who creates his works with materials and organic colors personally prepared. Thanks to academic studies and those of the great painters of the Baroque, the Renaissance, and as a student of Maestro Sacchi, he rediscovers the ancient secrets of painting techniques used such as egg tempera, French soft pastel, and gilding, thus establishing a dialogue with the grand past of Western art. His skill in drawing with intense strokes allows him to transfigure the images of his inner world into the depicted subjects, which are influenced by the fascination that sacred themes exert on the artist. Through the skillful combination of line, light, and color, Marino manages to create works of great aesthetic and spiritual depth.

Antonio Marino was born in Naples in 1976. He attended the State Art High School of Naples, honored to be a student of great teachers.

During his educational journey, he learned the techniques of etching, modeling, sculpture, and drawing, and at the same time created works that were included in collective exhibitions of the Art High School. He participated in open-air painting events in Campania, Calabria, Marche, Liguria, and Tuscany.

He continued to expand his artistic knowledge by studying and analyzing Caravaggio, Antonello da Messina, Tintoretto, Giorgione, Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano.

He perfected his techniques, particularly graphite on paper, soft pastels on fine paper, and oil on canvas, conducting detailed hyperrealistic research on portraits.

He created many sculptural works in clay, starting from bas-relief, illustrating some of the most important passages of the Divine Comedy, and full-round sculptures. He also created works in terracotta, depicting female images in a metaphysical style with conceptual messages. He has created depictions of sacred figures in the Neapolitan area, in Calabria, and in the Umbrian territory. At a very young age, he made headlines as the winner of the first prize, with the awarding of a gold medal, in the painting section. He received other reviews at the end of the 1990s, in Naples, on the occasion of some collective exhibitions and published in "Il Mattino" periodic section for emerging artists, local newspapers, and more.

Thanks to the teachings as a student of Maestro Claudio Sacchi, he indeed rediscovers ancient secrets of Renaissance painting techniques.

He has exhibited his paintings at the museum center of Rende "Museum of the Present", and also in many other locations including participation at the international level in the Deod’Art Festival of San Diè Strasbourg as a Master of Hyperrealist Art, in Civitavecchia selected among the excellences for the 2nd Festival of Figurative Art of Hyperrealism and Portrait, permanent exhibitions at the "OnArt" art gallery in Florence, and finally at the "Michelangelo Buonarroti Award 3rd Edition. Seravezza LU"; currently his works are on permanent display at the OnArt Gallery in Florence, the works and the artist reviewed and recognized internationally, whose works have been published in many figurative art catalogs, most recently in the prestigious art collection in the Spanish edition "Leonardo 2018", together with artists recognized beyond the European sphere, with international distribution.

About his Art

Antonio Marino entrusts his feelings to the communicativeness of faces, gestures, and glances represented in his works, imbued with a romantic aura, through which he communicates a deep desire to seek simplicity in the small gestures of everyday life. The reassuring embrace of a mother to her child, the joyful smile of serene and carefree childhood, the faces of men and women captured in their natural expressiveness, thus soften the sense of loneliness and conformity of our time and recover the meaning of individual uniqueness. The artist makes us reflect on the recovery of human relationships, positive communication, and the desire for a return to an existence nourished by the nectar of harmony and the simplicity of living. In this globalized society in every way, where everything is mass-produced and where individuals often tend to emulate each other, we are increasingly becoming the mirror image of a cold and impersonal assembly line, ever more similar to what Charlie Chaplin illustrates in the famous film "Modern Times". There is a need to feel once again like a subject and not an object, leading actors and not sterile extras, restarting constructive interaction in a society where people barely "look each other in the face". The artist Marino thus calls us to this sort of common mission, guiding us to an artistic reading that puts before our eyes what often inexorably escapes us, through the genre of hyperrealist portraiture and the recovery of the concept of beauty in terms of given form. His works present us with "speaking" faces, with explicit gestures, as if they were real, so as to channel us into an intimate interaction that arises with extreme naturalness. Portraits as "Esperanto in images", in a non-verbal language, universally recognized. In Marino's hyperrealistic research, one should not see the attention to detail as mere display of technical skill, but as the innate outcome of someone who, endowed with great sensitivity, stops to observe and not simply look, to delve deeper and not merely ascertain, far from hermeticism and without filters. In "Portrait of a Child", an oil painting, he represents the serenity of childhood and the spontaneous genuineness of its smile, calling the viewer to recover this dimension of living as an ideal status. The feeling of childhood itself represents a particular dimension, which all humanity has experienced, but of which it often seems to have no memory, as if it had the diaphanous outlines of a dreamlike reminiscence. Childhood contains sincerity, sweetness, loyalty, spontaneity, purity, a dimension of playfulness, looking to the future with enthusiasm and hope, the ability to dream and imagine again. And it seems we see this child portrayed by our talented artist before us, and hear his voice and laughter. His rebellious curls, symbol of liveliness, come to life, his large bright eyes, the chubby little hand brought to his ear, the little face turned towards the observer, naturally bringing the same smile to the viewer's face. The laughing child thus becomes the sum of an aspiration for rebirth, positive growth, hope for the times to come, the recovery of Pascoli's poetics of "the little child", that is, of those who look with pure eyes and a desire to know the world around them. The use of oil painting, Marino's favorite medium (who also skillfully works with ink, terracotta and clay in his sculptural works, and graphite on paper), gives the painting brilliance and liveliness, working on the colors with precision and care for every little nuance. The child's face is strengthened in its being, against a background that can be defined as earthy and bare, without any frills. With this compositional choice, probably influenced by the masters of the past who were the subject of his studies (such as Mattia Preti and Caravaggio), the artist focuses attention on the subject, not highlighting anything in the background that could distract attention and bringing out the depth of the representation also through the use of light and shadow. The work, moreover, plays with colors: the pinks of the complexion, in the child's sweatshirt, the tones of deep blue, almost tending to black, and of blue, modulated in different shades in the shadows, and the white placed centrally as a sort of highlight. The colors of the palette used here by Marino alternate in a balanced way without overpowering each other. The accuracy in the act of painting reveals technical preparation enhanced by specific studies that make Antonio Marino a well-rounded artist. The basis of the drawing is proof of this, and also represents continuity with tradition, which often gets lost in contemporary art. The search for the given form as such, far from overly closed interpretations, strengthens in his works the social function of art, its being communication and never an end in itself and therefore, its destination to a heterogeneous public. Thus, this artist can be described as the ideal conciliator of tradition and modernity, through the canonicity of the technique used and a sensitivity that reflects the discussion topics of contemporaneity. Dr. Raffaella Buccieri

His Curriculum

- 1994 diploma from the Artistic High School (NA); Advertising graphics and photography; Ceramic art; Pictorial decoration; Scenography; Architectural drawing; Animated drawing; Printing art; Graphic arts; Metal art and goldsmithing; Plastic decoration; Fashion and costume; Wood art; Advertising graphic art; Glass art; Artistic photography; Plastic decoration and church furnishing; Architectural and church furnishing designers; Metal art, goldsmithing and church furnishing; Hard stone art; Architectural and interior design; Mosaic art; Porcelain art; Coral art; Goldsmith designer; Cataloguing and conservation of cultural heritage. -

1994/1998 experience in artistic workshops of Neapolitan excellence in Cellini-style gilding, creation of the Noble Capodimonte Porcelains of the Royal House of Bourbon; -

1998/2004 collaboration at the artistic workshop in Naples Via Duomo and Vomero, in the creative multidisciplinary execution of ancient techniques such as etching, aquatint, lithography, screen printing, etc. - Student of master Claudio SACCHI, artistic heir of the Great Master Pietro ANNIGONI.

Professional experiences

- Specialized by M.I.B.A.C.T. in the protection of Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Cultural Heritage;

Collective and solo exhibitions

2018 – December 7 to December 17 International Art Meeting “Biennale di Napoli” ass. Domus Ars, curated by Ferdinando Sorrentino and Art Director Domenico Sepe, at the Santa Chiara Congress Wing adjacent to the homonymous Basilica, Piazza del Gesù Naples, under the patronage of the Campania Region and the Municipality of Naples;

2018 – September 21 to October 14 Collective exhibition of contemporary art “Premio Mestre 2018” ass. Il Circolo Veneto, at the Candiani Cultural Center, Piazzale Candiani Mestre, under the patronage of the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice;

2018 – August 30 to September 28 to September 2 Collective exhibition of contemporary art “the city within art” ass. Art En Ciel of Cuneo, at the historic and noble Palazzo Samone of Cuneo, under the patronage of the Province of Cuneo and the Municipality of Cuneo;

2018 – August 4 to September 2 Collective exhibition of contemporary art “Rinascenze” Villa Fidelia of the Municipality of Spello (PG) under the patronage of the Umbria Region, Province of Perugia, Municipality of Spello and ABA Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia;

2018 – June 9/30, 2018 3rd place in the Collective Exhibition competition 6th ed. “Color and Matter” at the Click Art art gallery in Cormano (MI);

2018 – 22/27-05.2018 Solo exhibition at the congregation halls of the Church of San Giovanni Apostolo of Ponte d’Oddi Perugia May 2018.

2017 – Collective “SGUARDI” - from 20.01.2018 to 31.01.2018 curated by the OnArt Gallery of Florence, via della Pergola 57/61, by Romina Sangiovanni”;

2017 – Collective “Anima et Corpus” - from 16.12.2017 to 05.01.2018 curated by the OnArt Gallery of Florence, via della Pergola 57/61, by Romina Sangiovanni”;

2017 – Collective “Michelangelo Buonarroti Prize 3rd Ed.” - III edition from November 15 to 26, 2017, at the Medici Castle with awards at the Granducal Stables Theater of the Medici Palace of Seravezza (UNESCO World Heritage Site) Viale Leonetto Amadei n. 230 Seravezza LU. ”;

2017 – event, October 22/29 at Palazzo Compagna Cosenza curated by Dr. Elvira Longo and Gianfranco Pugliese;

2017 – Collective “frantuMEMORIAE” - II edition at the Church of Santa Maria del Parto Naples in Mergellina from 05.10.2017 to 12.10

.2017 curated by the association “accademia dei Partenopei”;

2017 - Fraz. Fighille of the Municipality of Citerna (PG) September 30 to October 1 36th edition national painting prize 2 works;

2017 - Civitavecchia selected among the excellences for the 2nd Festival of figurative art of hyperrealism and portrait –Cittadella della Musica Ennio Morricone Civitavecchia September 16 /24 1 work;

2017 - Festival Deod’Art San Diè Strasbourg (France) July 21/23 5 works;

2017 - The art of Making Art - Exhibition of Antiques, Restoration, Artistic Craftsmanship of Pollenza (MC) July 8 /23 in Piazza Libertà. 5 works; 2016 - Düsseldorf (Germany) collective December 2016 ;

2015 - Solo “in the soul of faces”- Casella (GE) ; 2015 - Collective Rome “International Day of NON VIOLENCE!” House of Culture non-profit against violence on children October 2/14;

2015 - Fraz. Fighille of the Municipality of Citerna (PG) October 2 to 4 34th edition national painting prize 2 works;

2015 - Rossano (CS) “Contemporary Nativity” 08.12.2014 to 06.01.

2015 Palazzo San Bernardino Rossano (CS);

2014 - Solo “the colors of the soul ”- Luzzi (CS). 13/23 Dec 2015 ;
2013 - Rome - Soft pastel course with master Ruben Belloso Adorna;

2013 - Third edition art prize “City of Corchiano”- Corchiano (VT);

2015 - Solo “the colors of the soul ”- Luzzi (CS). 13/23 Dec 2015 ; 2011 - Solo “the faces of the soul ”- Luzzi (CS). October 2011;

2009 - Collective “Forms”- Jesi (AN);

2009 - Turin - Collective exhibition “Atmospheres of art”

2008 - Collective museum of art and culture of Cosenza (CS); 2007 - 6th national painting competition “City of Fondi”- Fondi (LT);

2003 - Agliè (TO)- collective and extemporaneous exhibition;

2001 - Collective “Frontier Studio”- Naples (NA);

2000 - Sacred illustrations, parables and biblical events. for the charismatic ecclesiastical community SS Cosma e Damiano of Naples ;

1999 - Collective “Distant Dimensions”- Benevento (BN);

1997 - Collective “Colors from the earth”- Casoria (NA); 1995 - Solo at the church S.S. Annunziata of Arzano (NA).

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