Mariella Simoni

Mariella Simoni (* 1948 in Desenzano del Garda on Lake Garda ) is an Italian visual artist who lives in Paris. She paints with oil on canvas and develops installations using marble, glass and silk.

Life

Mariella Simoni first studied philosophy and art history at the University of Parma . During a stay in London, financed by a grant from Giulio Carlo Argan , her artistic development was influenced by the work of the American painter Mark Rothko , which was exhibited there . In Milan she continued her studies in philosophy, psychoanalysis and psychology.

From 1975 Simoni exhibited her works regularly, initially in galleries in Brescia and Milan. She made contact with other Italian artists such as Marisa Merz , Mario Merz , Pier Paolo Calzolari and Luciano Fabro .

In 1977 Simoni went to Paris, where she attended seminars given by Jacques Lacan . In the same year she traveled to Greece for the first time and later returned several times. Nicos Baikas , George Hadjimichalis and Apostolos Georgiou belonged to the group of Greek artists close to her . In 1980 she showed some works in the gallery of Karen and Jean Bernier in Athens . The accompanying texts for the exhibition were contributed by the art historian Denys Zacharopoulos , from which a long-term collaboration with Simoni developed. Among other things, he was co-curator at documenta IX in 1992 , in which Simoni took part, and in 2011 curated her solo exhibition at the Alex Mylona Museum in Thessaloniki .

In the 1980s, Simoni exhibited several times in the Peter Pakesch Gallery in Vienna . In addition to Otto Zitko and Herbert Brandl , she was in contact with the Austrian artist Franz West . Simoni moved from Paris to Ghent at the end of the 1980s , in the meantime she lived in San Casciano dei Bagni and New York and finally back in northern Italy.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1992 documenta IX , Kassel
• 1998 Belltable Arts Center , Limerick, Ireland
• 2000 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Ghent, Belgium
• 2006 The 1980s - A Topology , Museu de Arte Contemporânea , Porto, Portugal
• 2011 Mariella Simoni "silk of the plant, silk of the stone", Museum Alex Mylona - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessaloniki
• 2013 “Franz West: The Viennese Friend”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Web links

• Mariella Simoni at artfacts.net
• Website Mariella Simoni

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 121.
2. ↑ Cornelia Lauf Mariella Simoni ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 28, 2016 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Press release on the exhibition Franz West: The Viennese Friend metropolispress.gr, accessed on September 3, 2016.
4. ↑ Mariella Simoni "silk of the plant, silk of the stone", 2011 - 1978 ( memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.mmca.org.gr, accessed September 3, 2016. 
5. ^ Franz West: The Viennese Friend ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mmca.org.gr, accessed September 3, 2016.