Biography
Andrea Mariconti was born in Italy in 1978. He lives and works between Cremona and Milan (Italy).
Painter and sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milan), specializing in Visual Arts, and then in Scenography and Entertainment Disciplines. Among his teachers D. Benati, M. Ceretti, R. Sanesi. Among his first experiences we recognize the verification of artistic practice in the social field: he stayed in Kosovo for an art therapy project for children suffering from psychological war trauma, he coordinated and promoted artistic workshops in the social field in South Africa and Italy (orphans, psychiatry, oncology, relationship problems). In 2005 he collaborated in the workshop held by Anselm Kiefer on the occasion of the installation at the Hangar Bicocca (Milan, IT)of Seven Heavenly Palaces.
In 2003 he held his first solo exhibition in Milan and since 2004 he has been regularly presented at the most important Italian and international contemporary art fairs (Berlin, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Basel, Taipei). In 2011 he won the UNESCO Prize for Contemporary Art, chair of Art and Bioethics. Since 2018 he has held the chair of Painting and Visual Arts at the Accademia Santa Giulia in Brescia (IT). In the sculptural field he collaborates with the historic Allanconi Foundry for the creation of lost wax bronze works with careful research into the technical and transformation processes. In 2018 he founded www.animuladesign.com.
His research is mainly based on an inclusive approach of the entire History of Art and the exploration of perceptual interferences. He works with natural materials of mineral origin (graphite - copper - bronze) and vegetable origin (phytolacca - coal - ash - ganpi paper - petroleum), from which he obtains intense and veiled colors and hues. Mariconti has studied and deepened over the years, in addition to a pictorial research that places him firmly in the panorama of contemporary art, an expressive research in the sculptural field that is based on the exploration of the potential of lost wax bronze, an ancient technique that plays an important role primary in the evolution of human civilization. Mariconti's works are present in private and public collections, both national and international.
