COMPOSITION ARCHITECTURALE – HOMMAGE À EMPÉDOCLE FRANCESCO MARINO DI TEANA
- Dimensions : 18 × 28.5 × 13.5 cm
- Year : 1986-88
- Material : Patinated steel
- Editions : Edition of 8 + 4 AP
- Signature : Signed with the artist's stamp
- Thèmes : Architecture
- Ton : Dark
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Referenced in the Artist's Raised Catalog under No. 966
LOFT Editions, 2018, under the direction of Nicolas Marino di Teana and Malika VINOT
Compositions & Geometrics
Despite regaining a certain freedom, Marino di Teana’s works in the 1980s are characterized by a new preference for geometric forms that are no longer ‘disintegrated’ but ‘rearranged’. Adapted to his architectural compositions, this new geometric perspective allows his works to gain density and matter.
In the Tribute to Professions he obviously highlights manual work and raw materials such as metal. Di Teana had always championed physical strength and the hands-on involvement of artists and artisans and he strongly criticized the «conceptualist» tendency of young contemporary artists who claimed to «create» without paying attention to the painted or sculpted material they used. For this reason, Marino never tires of praising in his works the men who inspired him. He thus declares his admiration for contemporary artists who dedicate their work to metal, such as David Smith, and for those who have accompanied and supported him in his own evolution, such as his teacher Enrique de Larrañaga, an important 20th century Argentinian painter.
Born in 1920 in Italie, Francesco Marino di Teana was graduated of the Fine- Arts school of Buenos Aires (Argentine), and then moved to France in 1953.
Painter, sculptor, architecte, philosopher and poet, he devoted his whole life and all his creation to discover, develop and construct the modelization projects of urban space. He undertook numerous public and private purchases between the 1960s and the 1990s in France and as well in Europe, a set of Fontaines Monumentales at Grand Palais (Paris), the 21 meters high Liberté in the Fontenay-sous-Bois which is the biggest sculpture of stainless steel in Europe (1990). Presented as well in many museums, like the National Museum of Modern Art, Marino di Teana was subject to a retrospective at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1976. He also represented Argentina to the Venice Biannale in 1982 and won the Commandant Paul- Louis Weiller de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts Prix in 2009.
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