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BOOK OF COLOR I

Monday, 21 March 2016

Last week, on March 16th, a Contemporary and Post-War Art auction ...

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PROGETTO ARTE 2015

Sunday, 20 December 2015

Osvaldo Mariscotti's latest book, Art Project 2015, is finally out ...

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MY STORY

Monday, 30 November 2015

This is the story of how I became art director and how that led to everything else ...

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THE RISE OF THE BYTE AS AN ARTFORM

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Osvaldo Mariscotti's latest solo show entitled "The Language of Color" is now open to the public until November 30th ...

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ACQUIRED WORKS

Thursday, 1 May 2014

We are thrilled to communicate that three Mariscotti canvases were acquired by collectors from the USA during the 5th edition of Art Monaco, the most prestigious Modern and Contemporary Art Fair on the French Riviera ...

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MARISCOTTI TRIPTYCH UNCOVERED IN NEW YORK

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Transition is an oil-and-paper-on-canvas triptych by Osvaldo Mariscotti. It was painted in the spring of 1996 at the artist's studio in Milan. The three canvases of the triptych are the same size - 36 in x 48 in - and are each individually framed ...

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REAL ABSTRACTION

Monday, 7 April 2014

Mariscotti Art is pleased to present its Real Abstraction campaign. Real Abstraction places virtual representations of a wide selection of Mariscotti's sculptures in public spaces around the city of London ...

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BLACK BEAUTY: A RADICAL CONCEPT

Friday, 27 September 2013

Contemporary sculpture favors alternative materials over more traditional ones like bronze. The fact that Mariscotti's latest sculpture project is made entirely in bronze clearly has something to do with this current tendency ...

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THREE-DIMENSIONAL

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Mariscotti's artistic style is inherently three-dimensional. The artist treats the canvas as a three-dimensional space, therefore conferring that quality to every element he creates within that space ...

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MODEL ONE

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Model One currently in production represents the culmination of Mariscotti's work ...

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VISUAL SIMULTANEITY

Friday, 22 February 2013

In order to bring his creations to life, Mariscotti makes use of a technique of chromatic optical mixing known as 'simultaneous contrast' famously used by Robert Delaunay in 1912 seeking to overturn the Cubist hierarchy during that time ...

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WAYS OF EXPRESSION

Monday, 18 February 2013

Compare and contrast ...

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FORGO THE FIRST STEP

Friday, 15 February 2013

In the early 1900s the advent of abstraction came as a disruptor of more standard ways of execution in the arts. Traditionally in order to carry out a painting ...

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NEW WORK

Thursday, 14 February 2013

For the past few weeks Mariscotti has been working nonstop on his latest project. Based on what I was able to gather ...

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PERCEPTION

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

How do these works affect your perception? We are constantly being affected by the circumstances that surround us ...

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"COMBINE #1" (BLACK BEAUTY SERIES)

Monday, 11 February 2013

"Combine #1" is a very interesting take on Mariscotti's latest work. This piece brings together two seemingly different views and puts them in perspective ...

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'Studio figurativo' & 'Color series #1': AN ANALYSIS

Thursday, 7 February 2013

A closer look at the works will reveal what you may have realized already. Both works in spite of their stylistic differences express the same idea. Both works are composed of the same core elements, color shapes and some form of 'silhouette' in black ...

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST: 'Studio figurativo' & 'Color series #1'

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

How do these works compare and contrast with each other?

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STUDIO FIGURATIVO

Monday, 4 February 2013

Studio figurativo portrays the perfect marriage between the abstract and figurative worlds. In the following work we identify two element categories: colored shapes and silhouettes ...

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STUDIO DEL COLORE

Friday, 1 February 2013

Studio del colore is an alternate view of similar works by Mariscotti, such as "Series of Multiples" and "Dark Series" ...

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INVENTING ABSTRACTION

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Excerpt from Leah Dickerman's "Inventing Abstraction 1910 - 1925: How a radical idea changed Modern Art"

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THE SCREAM

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Excerpt from Ann Temkin's "The Scream: Edvard Munch"

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

'Director of the Louvre to step down', 'Yayoi Kusama also leaves Gagosian', and 'Inaugural FHN MACBA Award to Iman Issa'

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A DREAM OF STARS AND LIFE, PART 4

Friday, 14 December 2012

“The Starry Night” was not, as were most of Van Gogh’s paintings, the contemplation of a landscape or the image of a fleeting moment. “The Starry Night” was the result of a deliberate detachment from reality, and the entrance into the realm of imagination . . .

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A DREAM OF STARS AND LIFE, PART 3

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Why would Vincent Van Gogh paint such a representation that has no parallel in the paintings of that same time? Why the moon-sun, the coiling nebula, the stars, the cypress tree, the church? This is the quest that we must undertake; to try to reach to Van Gogh’s mind and discover the raison d’etre of this painting, putting aside what our minds would like it to be . . .

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A DREAM OF STARS AND LIFE, PART 2

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

It is precisely this lack of rules that grants interpretation unrestrained freedom. “It’s one of the great things about great works of art that they can bear—and, indeed, that they invite—a superplenitude of possible readings, some of them contradictory” (Weschler 59). Is it? . . .

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A DREAM OF STARS AND LIFE, PART 1

Monday, 10 December 2012

“It seems to me not impossible that cholera, gravel, consumption may be celestial means of transport just as steamships, buses, railways are means of transport on this earth. To die quietly of old age would be like going on foot…” (Van Gogh Letter 506).

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PIET MONDRIAN: COMPOSITION, 1921

Monday, 3 December 2012

Perhaps one of the most seemingly intricate aspects of Mondrian's later work is to inquire on his true motivation for such art. This article is thus oriented towards finding a satisfying answer to that question...

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

'A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting?', 'Christie's sues Chinese rival over similar name', and 'Seaport Museum Works to Dry Out'

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THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST

Monday, 12 November 2012

Traditionally, art was judged by its execution in the corresponding medium, and the artist by his or her virtuosity and dexterity when creating the art. With the advent of the Conceptual Art movement we begin to see a shift in the way people perceive and conceive art...

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Saturday, 10 November 2012

'Christie's Sale Suffers From Sky-High Expectations', 'Sotheby's Continues Downbeat Week for Impressionists and Moderns', and 'Winter Illuminations: Light Festival in Japan'

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

Friday, 9 November 2012

'Restorers claim to have uncovered lost Giotto frescoes in quake-hit chapel', 'New home for antiquities at Art Institute of Chicago', and 'A Spectrum From Slaves to Saints'

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PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONCEPTUALISM

Monday, 5 November 2012

Excerpt from David Hopkins's 'After Modern Art 1945 - 2000' on Photography and Conceptualism

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CONCEPTUAL ART

Monday, 29 October 2012

Excerpt from David Joselit's 'American Art Since 1945' on Conceptual Art

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DEFINITIONS ON MODERNISM

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Excerpt from David Hopkins's 'After Modern Art 1945 - 2000' on definitions of Modernism

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TODAY'S ART, PART 2

Saturday, 20 October 2012

The American essayist Clement Greenberg mentions in his 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' essay published in 1939 that the avant-garde artist, the 'true' artist, tries to 'imitate God by creating something valid...

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TODAY'S ART, PART 1

Saturday, 13 October 2012

For the past few decades, the latest trends in the art world have been moving away from the traditional forms of art such as painting or sculpture. Nowadays, the void created by those forms of representation...

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ICONS & POP ART

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Throughout history, many cultures have used art, typically in the form of icons, as instruments of worship. Two of the most grandiose of such expressions were Czarist Russia and Western Europe...

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ON MINIMALISM

Saturday, 6 October 2012

Although clearly avant-garde, Mariscotti's art style does not fall within any recognized art movement. Nevertheless, this does not preclude the interpretation of certain elements in Mariscotti's work...

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JOURNEY TO THE PAST

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Take a look at one of Mariscotti's past art reviews...

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BEGINNINGS

Saturday, 29 September 2012

To better understand and assess Mr Mariscotti's current work, it is necessary to take a closer look at where it all came from, how it all began. To that end, we offer one of Mariscotti's past publications...

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'LIKE' US!

Friday, 14 September 2012

Dear friends, We at MariscottiART work hard every day to bring you the latest news on the works of Mr Mariscotti. It is for that same reason that we now invite you to 'like' us on Facebook to get access to exclusive content...

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SNEAK PEEK OF MARISCOTTI'S LATEST

Sunday, 9 September 2012

While it is not yet complete, Mariscotti has agreed to give us a sneak peek of his latest work, which, he tells us, embodies a new materialization of the language he has perfected with his art...

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MARISCOTTI IN ART IN AMERICA

Friday, 7 September 2012

Dear friends, you can now find one of Mr Mariscotti's latest paintings on page 79 of the September issue of Art in America Magazine. Published since 1913, Art in America covers the visual art world...

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GLOBAL REACH

Sunday, 2 September 2012

As we intensify our efforts to make MariscottiART available to everyone, we will be soon offering a Russian version of the site. As was the case with both German and Chinese Mandarin...

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COMING SOON: GERMAN & CHINESE MANDARIN

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Dear friends, I am proud to announce that 'mariscottiart.com' will soon be available in both German and Chinese Mandarin versions. Once all of the little details have been sorted out...

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TIMELESS EVOLUTION

Sunday, 19 August 2012

These two words succinctly describe Mariscotti's life work. While a cursory examination of Mariscotti's latest work might suggest otherwise, a more detailed look...

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GOLDEN CANVAS

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Mariscotti's latest oil on canvas painting is a celebration of color in all of its forms. Untitled portrays a dialogue of color between rhythmic silhouettes and surrounding rings of color...

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MARISCOTTIART'S QR CODE

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

After much anticipation we finally have our own QR code for MariscottiART. Instead of having to type in the website's address into your browser every time you want to check out our site...

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ARTNET: 'SEARCH FOR MARISCOTTIART'

Monday, 13 August 2012

You can now find MariscottiART in artnet.com. A public company based in Berlin, Germany, Artnet is a trade platform for the international art market, including fine arts, decorative arts and design...

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