ANDREA MARINI Born in Florence on the 19th of april 1948, Andrea Marini attended the "Liceo" specializing in art subjects and graduated in Architecture at the University of Florence. Marini has been always very interested in art, but he begun to produce continously sculptures in 1987. Its first personal exhibition was in 1989 .Since then he has participated, to several personal and collective exhibitions in art galleries and municipality spaces. He lives in Florence and he carries out his art activity in an industrial loft placed in Calenzano, near Florence. Critical notes Andrea Marini creates objects "that do not exist in nature, but could be existing and developing according to new rules" (Patrizia Landi). He invents " shapes in embryo ", givings them significant titles such as Coltura, Infiorescenza, Incubazione. The artist plays with the changing objects and their ambiguous appearance: Nests, constructed with barbed wire, can be seen also as Traps; they are covering "inner ways, threads of memory that sometimes wrap around themselves in attitudes of waiting" (Patrizia Landi). Through the fantastic imagination of Andrea Marini, the industrial materials (polystyrene, resins, enamels, metals) are transformed into simply shaped volumes, the natural light is replaced by electric lights ( neon and Wood's lamps), reaching at last new codes of life. From Introduction to Tracce fuori centro: Gilberto Zorio and Andrea Marini, Villa Vogel, Florence 2001 Andrea Marini moves from a wrapping and roundish dimension towards a sharp one, which, in some of his works is ,for the material used, uncomfortable to touch but nevertheless full of charm for the vision. All the titles of his works, clearly refer with poetry to a situation of vitality, in the air as well as in the matter: these two become a concrete, physically sensitive sculpture which imbues the space, primarily as an installation, thereafter also for subdivision of times and rhythms. If the primary nucleus of his work is a language problem, changing from a sculpture to the other also according to the different material used (resin, barbed wire,...), there and then the shape grows and develops winking ambiguous in its materiality, therefore also surrealist (lunar), such as to turn out at the same time warm and disenchanted, approaching the irony which always keeps company reflection. Giandomenico Semeraro, 2000 Andrea Marini, without easy dramatic tones, searching the objectivity and the separation of the impartial observer, with a sure dose of irony, has created a gray coloured universe, with opaque surfaces, maintaining or transforming, with great inventive know-how, the characteristics of the used materials. A universe in which natural and artificial do not crash anymore but on the contrary match giving birth to a new age of the world. The man,though beying the creator of this new situation, seems uneasy, waiting resigned and estonished for the process of his slow extinction. Gianni Caverni, 1998 The basic idea of the artistic production of Andrea Marini, since the beginning, is the one of becoming put into effect through the transformation, generating the shape, another shape, the matter, another matter, in a continuum which refers to the one of nature. Since the beginning , the basic elements of his research are the connections, the usual relationships between the organic world, plants and animals, and the inorganic, between the natural and the artificial elements. It is also evident from the materials used, natural matters like wood, iron, lead, aluminum, copper, combined with artificial ones, like rubber, plexiglass, polystyrene, resinglass. Elda Torres, 1995 Personal Exhibitions Studiotalks, by Associazione culturale Start, visit featured by Bruno Corà, Calenzano (Fi), 2005 Ibernauti, by Patrizia Landi, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, 2004 Sradicato, by Ronaldo Fiesoli, Patrizia Pepe, Capalle, Florence, 2003 Ovovoidi - Cotto ad Arte: Daniela Cresti's project, Località Torri, Rignano Sull'Arno, Florence, 2003 Effettoserra, by Paola Ballerini, Associazione Culturale Grafio, Prato, 2002 In Nuce, Recalcati Arte Contemporanea, Torino, 1998 In rerum natura, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 1998 Fiorile Arte, by Vladimiro Zocca, Bologna, 1997 Bilancia delle Anime, by Valeria Bruni, Galleria Spazio Immagine, Foligno, 1994 L'Armonia Discorde, by Emidio De Albentiis, Palazzo Comunale, Perugia, 1993 Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Renata Torino, by Lia De Venere, Isernia, 1993 Un teatro di forme, by Gino Calenda, Chiesino di S. Ambrogio, Prato, 1989 Collective Exhibitions Il giardino immaginato, project and organization by Luca De Silva, art coordinator Bruno Corà, Palazzo di S. Clemente, Florence, 2006 Arttrazione, testo critico di Carlotta Pazzagli, Artesi, Florence, 2006 4me fo(u)rme, by Fiorella Nicosia, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2006 Boart, Colectiva Artistas Italianos Magatzemsd'artvalencia Galeria, Valencia, 2006 Inseguendo il coniglio bianco, by Loris Schermi Alberto Miralli Arte Contemporanea, Viterbo, 2005 Bicisalide, Cicli d'arte, art nest, Florence, 2005 Tracce fuoricentro live, by Gaia Bindi and Patrizia Landi, Fuoricentro, Livorno, 2004 Dialoghi muti, by Gianni Caverni and Lorenzo Pezzatini, Cure d'arte, Area Pettini Burresi, Florence, 2003 Arte in Orto, Botanical Gardens of Florence, Giardino dei Semplici, 2003 Tracce fuori centro: Gilberto Zorio and Andrea Marini, by Bruno Corà, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci of Prato and Quartiere 4 of Florence, Villa Vogel, Florence, 2001 Invasioni, by Francesca Milani and Patrizia Landi, Lastra a Signa, Florence, 2001 Inveri-Similis, by Giandomenico Semeraro, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2000 Artificialia, by Patrizia Landi, Palazzo Marini, Rosignano Marittimo, 2000 Contro la pena di Morte, by Lara-Vinca Masini, Fortezza da basso, Florence, 2000 MiNiPiXiL, Fiorile Arte, Bologna, 1999 Caos Italiano new vision, by Ruggero Maggi and Carmelo Strano, San Vito al Tagliamento, 1999 Inscritta, by Giandomenico Semeraro, Cascina, 1999 Manod'opera al nero, Galleria Container, Florence, 1998 Anime in autoritratto, Milan Art Center, Miart: Fiera di Milano, 1997 Riparte, Milan Art Center, Roma, 1997 1° premio Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi, 1996 Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, espace Eiffel, Branly, Paris, 1996 Mercantia, VIII° Festival Internazionale del Teatro da Quattro Soldi, Certaldo, 1995 Pompei a Borgo Marelli, Manod'opera, Borgo Marelli, Fiesole, 1995 Manod'opera, by Patrizia Landi, Cardillac Cafè, Florence, 1994 Studi aperti '94, by Fiammetta Strigoli, Florence, 1994 La soglia interna, by Fiammetta Strigoli, Museo Nazionale di Antropologia e Etnologia, Florence, 1994 Centro Luigi di Sarro, by Patrizia Ferri, Roma, 1992 Estuario, by Patrizia Ferri, Praia a Mare, 1991 Intra Moenia, by Massimo Duranti and Antonio Carlo Ponti, Corciano, Perugia, 1991 L'Utopia possibile, by Nicola Nuti, Florence, 1990 Galleria Atelier, Carrara, 1990 S/Definizione d'Artista, by Valeria Bruni, Follonica, 1990 Studi aperti, Arteria, Prato, 1990 Andrea Marini via degli Artigiani, 72 50041 Calenzano – Florence, Italy cell. 347 8751230 www.andreamarini.it info@andreamarini.it

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