Only a 4 minute walk from the Dubuffet Foundation, located in Périgny, is a hidden artist’s studio. It is the secret studio of the sculptor Marino Di Teana, he settled there in 1963, lived and worked there until the end of his life.
Nicolas, the son of Marino Di Teana, presents us, in the video below, the workshop as well as all the secrets of his process of realization of work.
Today the studio is preserved in its original state and it is possible to see the artist’s creative process with the sculptures, models, drawings and paintings that he made throughout his life.
It is possible to have guided tours of the workshop by appointment, with Marino’s son who will be able to answer any questions about the sculptor.
The artist
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 “tri-unitarian” 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.
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Liberty H.20cm ChromeFrancesco Marino Di Teana
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Liberty H.20cm BrushedFrancesco Marino Di Teana
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AUBE Limited copper versionFrancesco Marino Di Teana
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AUBEFrancesco Marino Di Teana
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Tribute Lao Tseu H.16cm Chrome-platedFrancesco Marino Di Teana
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Tribute Lao Tseu H.16CM BrushedFrancesco Marino Di Teana
400,00€
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Libération : Marino Di Teana, la ville mode d’emploi
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