Andrea Mariconti was born in Italy in 1978. He lives and works between Cremona and Milan (Italy).
Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, major in visual arts and scenography, he has been appointed assistant professor at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) of Milan. Between 2005 and 2006 he has been in Kosovo teaching art therapy to childs victims of war traumas and he has been teacher to a disabled students school of drama. In 2005 he attended an Anselm Kiefer workshop, during the setting up of the Seven Heavenly Palaces at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Since 2009 he has conducted a wide range of experience of laboratories in the social health sector, in Italy and South Africa (orphans, psychiatry, oncology, kids with relation problems). In 2011 he won the Best of Show at the UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize. In 2015, he conducted a project for the Universal Exposition Fair hosted in Milan, Italy, focusing on a new dynamic experience about the Diocesano Museum in Milan (Kanon Mouseion). Since the first exhibition in 2003 he is represented in the most important International art fairs (Basel, Tai Pei, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg).
He works with natural materials (ashes – wax – copper – bronze – petroil – raw soil ), the only colour he uses in his paintings is ‘white’. His work is about exploration of materials, their expressive and conceptual properties and their transmutation.
Andrea Mariconti was born in Italy in 1978. He lives and works between Cremona and Milan (Italy).
Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, major in visual arts and scenography, he has been appointed assistant professor at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) of Milan. Between 2005 and 2006 he has been in Kosovo teaching art therapy to childs victims of war traumas and he has been teacher to a disabled students school of drama. In 2005 he attended an Anselm Kiefer workshop, during the setting up of the Seven Heavenly Palaces at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan. Since 2009 he has conducted a wide range of experience of laboratories in the social health sector, in Italy and South Africa (orphans, psychiatry, oncology, kids with relation problems). In 2011 he won the Best of Show at the UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize. In 2015, he conducted a project for the Universal Exposition Fair hosted in Milan, Italy, focusing on a new dynamic experience about the Diocesano Museum in Milan (Kanon Mouseion). Since the first exhibition in 2003 he is represented in the most important International art fairs (Basel, Tai Pei, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg).
He works with natural materials (ashes – wax – copper – bronze – petroil – raw soil ), the only colour he uses in his paintings is ‘white’. His work is about exploration of materials, their expressive and conceptual properties and their transmutation.
Andrea Mariconti’s artistic talent grows out of a silent and attentive capacity of observing nature and humanity.
Developing the old technique of painting with poor materials, Mariconti finds his way of expression by using personal melanges – carefully studied and experimented over the years – of oil painting, ashes, earth and plants extracts.
His paintings tend to dichromatism and his sapient use of chiaroscuro adds the perfect layer of shadows making the atmosphere mysterious and fascinating. His use of dropping, folding and mixing materials with such different textures, gives to his work a tridimensional effect and simultaneously a surrealist feeling like if you would be trying to reconstruct an old memory in details, without achieving its totality. His brushstrokes as much as the textures of his self-made colors give to his paintings a sort of impressionist value, confirmed by the certainty of recognizable subjects. The main theme behind his works is the fragility of both landscapes and humanity. Being in permanent transformation, by stocking them on canvas Mariconti gives to those instants, to those blinks of reality, a fix point, projecting them to immortality.
Art has many different languages, and each of them left a crucial mark in art history. My work is mostly based on the transformation of materials using Copper. The Copper is the main conductor of energy that passes through the forms like a sound. The transformation of materials and energies has been an obsession during ancient times, and so is for me.
The daily practice of painting requires you to go to the studio and put hard work into creating something meaningful. Often, during the days when nothing seems to work, the painting actually starts taking a different turn, and when you put the brush down, you notice that the artwork has started living a life that does not belong to you anymore.
I have always liked to experience while creating. The balance I am looking for is connected equally with movement, destruction, and preservation. For me, the painting is a creation that acts not only on the canvas but also inside you.
The painter’s moment of inspiration is nothing more than a small illumination, and this can happen even while walking in front of a traffic light, crossing the street. Inspirations bring to light a knot on which you begin to work.
By untangling them, these knots can give life to something that had no shape before.
My ideas arise from the encounters I have with the people daily and then have been transformed into my works. And in general, the greatest inventions in history have been born through circulations, confrontations, and encounters between the people.
How this autobiographical discourse could actually become a universal discourse is the biggest question that the creator is facing.
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“The act of breaking the form of a bell that has a sound also means breaking the sound. A bell foundry that is casting bronze is a beautiful place to relate to. People should be more interested in rediscovering such places”. – Andrea Mariconti
Prizes and awards
2019- invitation and workshop at DYNAMO ART FACTORY – Pistoia ITALY
2011- winner of 1st Prize UNESCO International Bioethics Art Competition – Texas, USA
2003 – winner of San Fedele Prize – Milan, Italy
Solo exhibitions
2019
Ri-configurazione, Dynamo Art Gallery Museum, Dynamo Camp Pistoia (IT)
Beyond Interference, Auditorium San Giovanni, Torri del Benaco (VR)
2018
Spielen mit geistern| Playing with ghosts, curated by Paolo Rondini, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin
STILL LIFE, Galleria NuovoSpazio, Piacenza
2016
Kanon III Halos, curated by M.G.Melandri, MAG Museum – Magazzini del Sale, Cervia (IT)
2015
Keramos, curated by G.I.Sidola, Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea, Milan (IT)
Kanon I Habitat Mouseion, curated by G.I.Sidola and A.Spadaro S.I., Diocesano Museum, Milan EXPO 2015 (IT)
2014
Attraction, curated by A.Redaelli, Galleria Punto sull’Arte, Varese
2013
Kanon, curated by E.Beluffi, Galleria Federico Rui, Milan
2012
Storia Naturale, curated by E.Beluffi, BPL Arte, Banca popolare di Lodi
Mens Aequorea, curated by C.Frequellucci, Galleria Percorsi Arte Contemporanea, Rimini
Aleifar, curated by di Stefano Castelli, Galleria Rotta Farinelli, Genova
2011
Ecumene|terra da abitare, curated by F.Baboni-S.Taddei, Sala Espositiva Telemaco Signorini, Portoferraio
La natura organica della memoria genera l’opera, curated by E. Beluffi, Sala dei Decurioni – Palazzo del Comune, Cremona
La natura organica della memoria genera l’opera, curated by E. Beluffi, Galleria Nuovo Spazio, Piacenza
2010
I Resti del Tempo, Galleria Federico Rui, Milan (Italy)
Blackcoal, curated by di Natalia Vecchia, Galleria ZeroOtto, Lodi
2009
No more me, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007
Quia Pulvis, curated by di Fabrizio Dentice, Galleria Pittura Italiana, Milan
De Umbris Idearum, curated by Fra. G. La Rocca, Galleria L’Ariete, Bologna
2006
Andrea Mariconti, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Galleria Pittura Italiana, Milan
Silenzi, curated by di Flaminio Gualdoni, Galleria L’Ariete, Bologna
2004
Nozzechimiche, curated by Galleria Pittura Italiana, Spazio Cailan’d, Milan,
Rumore bianco, curated by Francesco Gesti e Antonio Spadaro, Galleria Arturarte, Nepi
Ri-trarre, curated by Paolo Klun, Home Gallery, Napoli
2003
Interferenze, Spazio S. Fedele, curated by Antonio Spadaro e Rodolfo Balzarotti, Milan
Group shows
2020
Art Karlsruhe, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
POSITIONS|Berlin, curated by L.Catucci gallery, Berlin
2013
Sublimate, sublime, subliminal, Underdog Gallery – Lloyd’s club, curated by di A.Rankle, London
2012
Il divino nell’arte contemporanea, Museo dei Brettii, curated by V. Sgarbi, Cosenza
Viva Palermo e Santa Rosalia, Palazzi Costantino e Di Napoli ai Quattro Canti, curated by G. Intra
Sidola, Palermo
Il passato rieditato, Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Mathias Ritter, curated by E.Beluffi, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan
UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Huston (Texas USA)
2011
Fundamentum Artis: Albanese-Chia-CodaZabetta–Ferlinghetti-DarioFo-Mariconti-Mendini-Moret-Pellegrini–Petracchi-PizziCannella, curated by di R.Z.Bongiovanni, Unicredit Private, Bologna
UNESCO International Bioethics Art Prize, The United Nations General Assembly Hall, New York (USA)
2010
Materia è Memoria, curated by Emanuela Agnoli, Galleria Percorsi, Rimini (Italy)
Naturae, Galleria Zerootto, Lodi
Il canto degli Alberi, Galleria Federico Rui, Milan (Italy)
2009
Walkin’ Venice Open Galleries, Meggiato Fine Arts, Venice (Italy)
New art gallery, Wasescha+Meggiato, S.Moritz (CH)
2008
Figurati!, Museo Officina delle Arti, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
2007
Premio Cairo, Museo della Permanente, Milan (Italy)
La Nuova Figurazione italiana… to be continued, curated byi Chiara Canali, Fondazione Borroni, Milan (Italy)
Summer Container, Galleria Goethe 2, Bolzano
L’ombra del dubbio, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Galleria Novato, Fano (Italy)
Aliens, curated by di Sergio Curtacci, Spazio Novantanove, Venezia
Landscape, curated by Stefano Castelli, Galleria 35, Rieti
Figurati!, Galleria Pittura Italiana, Milano
2006
Per le Strade, curated by Emma Gravagnuolo e Franco Migliaccio, Hotel Delle Arti, Cremona (Italy)
Vertigini: il fantastico oggettuale, curated by Silvia Pegoraro, XXXIX Premio Vasto, Palazzo d’Avalos, Vasto (Italy)
2005
Città di Carta: da Sironi ai contemporanei, curated by Sandro Fusina, Galleria Pittura Italiana, Milano
Premio Morlotti 2005, curated byGiacomo Pellegrini, Imbersago (Italy)
Europe Project, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Hart Diest Gallery, Diest (Belgium)
Nuovo romanticismo, Galleria Studio Vivo, Cremona
2004
Sacro, curated by Silvano Petrosino, Centro S. Fedele, Milan(Italy)
La Fenice Prize, Venice, (second prize) (Italy)
Salon di scenografia 2004 – il mestiere dello scenografo, Accademia di Brera, Milan (fisrt prize) (Italy)
2003
Caleidoscopio di Brera, curated by Andrea Del Guercio, Collegio Cairoli Università degli Studi, Pavia (Italy)
(S)paesaggi e dintorni, Galleria Pittura Italiana, Milan (Italy)
2002
Ritorno ad Itaca, curated by Andrea Dall’Asta, Centro S. Fedele, Milan (Italy)
Premio CDZ 2002, curated by Elena Pontiggia, Galleria Ponte Rosso, Milan (Italy)
2000
SALON I 2000, Museo della Permanente, Milan (Italy)
La riscoperta dell’immagine di Vigilio nell’autenticità e sensibilità odierna, Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento (first prize) (Italy)
NewCentury presents, Aoyama Skydoor Artplace, Tokyo (Japan) (Italy)