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Carlo Maria Mariani

BORN
Rome, Italy
  
EDUCATION
Studied at the Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
  
SOLO EXHIBITIONS selected
1997 Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carlo Maria Mariani,Premio Marche, Biennale, Ancona, Italy
1996 "Respectful Heresies," Studio Cannaviello, Milan, Italy
1995 "Stillness in Time," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994 "The Graphic Work of Carlo Maria Mariani," La Stamperia, Rome, Italy
1993 "Dreams," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1992
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Works on Paper," Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991-92 Mathildenhohe Darmstadt, Germany
1990
"A Rebellion for a New Time," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Drammen Kunstforening, Drammen, Norway
1988 "Paradisio Riconquistato, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Rome
"Paradise Regained," Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 "Centric 27: Carlo Maria Mariani," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (also 1984)
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1986 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Edward Totah Gallery, London, England
1985 "Oeuvres Recentes 1982-84," Galerie Eolia, Paris, France
"Dessins et Pastels," Galerie Seroussi, Paris, France
1983 "L'Allegoria Mancina," Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
1982 Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
1981 Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY
"Constellation of Leo," Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1980 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
1978 "Cartoni," Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
1977 "Pictor Philosophus," Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
"Animula Vagula Blandula," Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1976 "Baldassarre Peruzzi/Geschichte," Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Rome, Italy
1973 "Iper/ri/cognizione," Galleria d'Arte Seconda Scala, Rome, Italy
  
GROUP EXHIBITIONS selected
1997 "Figured", Associated American Artists, New York, NY
"Ezra Pound & Art: The Beautiful is Difficult," Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan, Italy
1996 "The Borghese and their Art," Cultural Center Borghese, Tuscany, Rome
"Anthology," Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
"Cultured Painting in Italy," Kunsthalle-Brecia
"Per Grazia ricevuta," Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"La Profondita dello Sguardo," Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
1995 "XXVII Premio Vasto: Italian Art in the Last Century - Art Povera to Post Modern,"
Instituto di Phillippo Palazzi e Commune di Vasto, Vasto, Italy
1993 "The Purloined Image," Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
"Masquerade-The Mask as Art," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1992 "Noah's Ark," Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
1991 "All the Streets Lead to Rome," Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"National Exposition of Art," Quadriennale D'Arte Di Roma, Rome, Italy
1990 "Unalternative Europa," Museum of Art, Palazzo Dei Diammanti, Ferrara, Italy
"Future Dimension, XLIV Ezposizone Internazionale d'Arte," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Il Mondo delle Tori da Babilonia a Manhattan," Palazzo Reale, Commune di Milano, Milan, Italy
1989 "2000 Jahre die Gegenwart der Vergang Heit," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"Italian Art in Russia," Art Center, Moscow and Exhibition for Contemporary Art, Lenningrad, Russia
1988 "Open Mind-Closed Circuits," Museum van Hedendaagse, Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Mnemosyne, or the Theater of Memory," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1987-88 "Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art," Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
"Reason and Emotion," Edinburgh International Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland
"Memory and Imagination," Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland
1987 "Exotisme au Quotidien," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Modern Myths, Classical Renewal," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (traveling)
"State of the Art," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "Vom Keichnen: Aspekte der Keichnung, 1960-1985," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Aspekte der italienischer Kunst 1960-1985," Osterreiches Museum fur Angewande Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1985 "Second Sight: Biennial IV," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
"A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
"Metaphor and/or Symbol: A Perspective on Contemporary Art," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1984 "Alibis," Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
"Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Germany
"A Different Climate," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Art in the Mirror," XLI Esposizione Internazionale d'Art, La Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
1983 "Via New York," Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1982 "XXIII Biennale d'Arte Roma Milano," Palazzo Gottifredi, Alatri, Italy
"Aperto XL Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte," La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1981 "Documenta 7," Kassel, Germany
1980 "XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo," Pavihao Armando Arruda Pereira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Arte e Critica 1980," Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
  
BIBLIOGRAPHY selected
1996 Braff, Phyllis, "Classicsim in the 20th Century," New York Times, October 20., p. 18
1996 Beatrice, Luca, "Anthology: Painting in Italy from 1975 to Today," Anthology,
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (exhibition catalogue)
Kuspit, Donald, Idiosyncratic Identities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. p. 136-144
Sandler, Irving, Art of the Postmodern Era, Icon Editions, Harper & Collins, p. 294-95
Tommasoni, Italo, "Carlo Maria Mariani, The Painter of Silence," Flash Art, Summer #199, p. 56-59
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Visual Arts in the 20th Century, Laurence King Publishing, London, p. 348
1995 Fleming, William, Arts & Ideas, Harcourt Brace, New York, NY p. 673-675
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Art Today, Rizzoli, New York, NY
Ebony, David, "Stillness in Time," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Ebony, David, "Carlo Maria Mariani," Art in America, January, p.
1993 McEviley, Thomas, The Exiles Return, Cambridge University Press, pp. 136-144
Cameron, Dan, "Dreams," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (catalogue with color reproductions)
Rosenblum, Robert, "A Postscript, Some Recent New-Romantic Mutations," College Art Association, p. 74-8
1991 Fox, Howard, "Carlo Maria Mariani - An Abstraction," Carlo Maria Mariani,
Darmstadt Germany/Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue with reproductions)
Rose, Margaret, "The Post-Modern and then Post-Industrial," Cambridge
1990 McEviley, Thomas, "A Rebellion for a New Time," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (catalogue)
Jencks, Charles, "Was ist Postmoderne?" Zurich/Munich, S. 24 ff
Kuspit, Donald, "Carlo Maria Mariani," Venice Biennial Cannaviello Milan, Italy
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Art in the 1980's, Phaidon Press, Oxford, p. 109-114
1988 Iannacci, Anthony, "Carlo Maria Mariani," Artforum, December, p. 132
1987 Jencks, Charles, Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture, Academy Editions, London
Barnes, Lucinda, Carlo Maria Mariani, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
Russell, John, review, The New York Times, April 24
1986 Beal, Graham W.J., "Second Sight Biennial IV," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Fox, Howard N., A New Romanticism, The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1985 "Metaphor and/or Symbol: A Perspective on Contemporary Art," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, p. 61
Hughes, Robert, "Gliding Over a Dying Reef," Time, July 2
Rosenzweig, Phyllis, Howard Fox & Miranda McClintic, Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984,
1984 Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
McEvilley, Thomas, "On the Manner of Addressing Clouds," Artforum, Summer
Levin, Kim, Artful Dodgers," The Village Voice, Feb 7 Russell, John, "Art: Carlo Maria Mariani in Classcial Vein,
"The New York Times, January 27

 

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