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Galerie Loft

ONE MAN SHOW

Francesco Marino Di Teana

04/04/2019 - 07/04/2019

Press release

La galerie LOFT sera heureuse de vous accueillir au Grand Palais sur le stand E16 avec un One Man show de Marino di Teana.

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Galerie Loft will be delighted to welcome you to the Grand Palais at the stand E16 with a One Man Show dedicated to Francesco Marino Di Teana.

Both painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and philosopher, Francesco Marino Di Teana was an Italian-Argentine artist who marked the sculpture of the 1950s-60s with his theories on tri-unitary logic and architectural sculpture.

To retrace his remarkable career, more than fifteen years with Denis René, the Monumental Fountains exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1963, a retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1975, representing Argentina at the Venice Biennale 1982, a retrospective in Germany in 1987, and the Prix de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2009, Galerie Loft is dedicating an important One Man Show to the artist.

Unseen and iconic (sculptures, paintings) will be presented, along with the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist, whose official launch will take place at the heart of Art Paris 2019.

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Francesco Marino Di Teana

Francesco Marino Di Teana

Born amongst a family of peasants, Francesco Marino di Teana was successively a shepherd, a mason in Italy (Teana), site foreman, architect and student at the Art University of Argentina before moving to Paris in 1953. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, poet and philosopher and becomes one of the major sculptors of the 20th with his theories on “triunitarian” logic and architectural sculpture. Represented for more than 20 years by the mythical Denise René gallery and winner of prestigious artistic prizes, he was acclaimed by some of the greatest creators and art critics of his time. Precursor of the Monumenta’s at the Grand Palais with the exhibition of his monumental fountains (9 m high for 16 long), that he made with Saint-Gobain (Glass and industrial materials company), he has raised more than 40 monumental sculptures throughout France, one being the highest iron sculpture in Europe, “Liberté“ (Liberty), that is 20 meters high (at Fontenay-sous-bois). His lifetime work was the object of a retrospective in 1975 at the Paris Museum of Modern Arts, he represented Argentina at the Venice biennial of 1982, and won the academy of fine arts prize in 2009.