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Marco Piono, sculptor and painter,
Born in Hamburg in 1959, lives and works in
Berlin and Carrara, Italy
First sculptures date from 1976
1978 "Jerusalem" draft.
1987 - leaves Germany and moves to Italy.
Works at the sculpture studio with Alessio Sozzi,
Milan
and Giovanni de Angelis, Pesaro.
Guest student at the Accademia delle Belle Arti,
Milan.
1988, studies at the Scuola del Nudo, Carrara
Practice of sculpture at the studio Nicoli,
Carrara,
Transfer to the Accademia delle Arti, Carrara
Contacts with A.R. Penck, Giuliano Vangi and
Giulio Silva provide a source of great inspiration
Twice awarded the first prize of the jury at
the Festival des Arts in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France:
1993 - The silence in the East and the West,
marble
1995 - The same opinion - bronze
1995 - birth of his daughter Estelle-Marie,
work on the sculpture Birth
Initial ideas for the Stella-Maria project,
art space, Carrara
1999 - bust of the dancer, choreographer and
ballet director of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Richard
Cragun, marking the beginning of a series of
portraits of contemporary personalities.
Piono's sculptures, which are entirely in marble
and bronze, are figurative. What particularly
fascinates the artist about marble is its vitality.
Piono understands marble as a timeless, fossilised
body of thought to which he gives visible expression.
The themes which Piono addresses are ones which
are fundamental to mankind: birth, death, the
individual, groups, integration
. The leitmotif of Piono's sculptures and painting
is polarity, the dichotomy of opposites. The
poles which initially seem to be so conflicting
form a whole. Piono shows the possibilities
and the meaning of polarity: change, movement
and diversity. Polarity is inherent in everything.
His work is characterised by variations of heads
and bodies, incorporated in a specific context,
often also expressing powerful eroticism.
The magical number seven, the number of perfection
is intrinsic to the recurrent sequences.
Piono sees his paintings and photographs as
a contract to the time-consuming work with stone.The
motif of polarity is also the theme of his paintings
and photographs. The range of the artist is
revealed in the Polar Print Paintings (oil on
canvas) and in the Polar Photo Prints (air brush
on canvas).
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