Guido Marzulli
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Biography
Guido Marzulli was born in Bari, July 8, 1943.His father (Michele Marzulli, who was also poet and writer) and his mother (Rosa Tosches) were also worthy painters.
He began his artistic activity in Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
, where he spent his adolescence and attended various meetings and debates with most important scholars and Italian painters, used to be part of the literary and artistic salon established in his parent home during the sixties.
Also in Bari he finished his university studies and completed a degree in Economics.
In 1970 he moved to Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, where he deepened his research on both landscape and portrait. During the same period, he traveled along Europe, broadening his knowledge to the greatest artists of antiquity and European masters from the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
Since 1991 he moved to Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and continued painting also in his summer house in Santa Severa
Santa Severa
Santa Severa is a frazione of the comune of Santa Marinella, in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is a small sea resort on the Via Aurelia, c. south of Santa Marinella and north of Rome.It takes its name from the 2nd-century Christian martyr...
(Rome).
Marzulli originally set his work along the path traced by the naturalis Neapolitan tradition, he revisits it through the impressionist experience, interpreting it with strength and a twentieth century mark.
He rejected the abstract and concentrated on figurative painting, receiving awards and acknowledgements including the Gold Medal at the Biennale of Rome G.Tortelli in 1990.
He is a contemporary figurative
Figurative
Figurative may refer to:*Figurative art*Figurative language*Neo-figurative art...
realism
Realism (visual arts)
Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...
representative.
The painstaking quality of the refinement in his paintings mean production is not high, so paintings are found only rarely on the market as a result.
Marzulli starts from the belief that the pictorial story doesn’t need intermediaries to explain the meanings, but it must be easy to interpret by common people, who should be able to recognize themselves into it, feel direct emotions and without any difficulties finding out resemblances of own private memories.
He, on the other hand. doesn’t scatter himself behind symbolism or hidden meanings, and keeps a fine balance between contemporary and an everyday sense of elapsed time, getting inspired by memories and by social reality, interpreting those, sometimes with an indirect nostalgic mind, with a straight and equable language, chromatic evocative personal sense and often adapting the mere visual aspect to his own feeling and, to his own ideal of composite armory.
He composed, with a well balanced idealism and realism at the same time, views and characteristic urban glimpses with easy reading expression and with an intimate and realistic background, together with life scenes, open markets, seascapes, intimate domestic interiors with figures and intense portraits, some of these representing his wife, the source of inspiration of many of his works.
Museums
His works are conserved at the Museums of BariBari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
(Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari
Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari
The Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari or The Provincial Pinacotheca in Bari is an important Italian Artistic Paintings Museum .-History:...
) and Latina (Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Latina
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Latina
The Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Latina or The Modern and Contemporary Civic Gallery in Latina is an Italian Pinacotheca ....
).
The photographic list of many of his paintings and the biographical documentation are in leaflets dedicated to this artist in the Bio-iconographic Archive of the Supervisory Office of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, or the National Gallery of Modern Art
National Gallery of Modern Art
The National Gallery of Modern Art is the leading Indian art gallery. The main museum at New Delhi was established on March 29, 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore...
or GNAM in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
(Ministry of cultural assets).
External links
- Web Site National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM)- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM) - in Roma. Soprintendenza - "Archivi del '900".