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Mariano Zela
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Mariano Zela was born in 1929 near Vicenza. He graduated from the High School for the Plastic Arts in Rome summa cum laude. One of Franco Gentilini's preferred pupils, he also became his most important assistant. During his youth, Zela was awarded numerous prizes. In 1956 he won "Premio Graziano" and "Premio Diomira" in 1957. In that same year he was awarded a gold medal by the Chamber of Deputies.
The year 1958 saw an exhibition of his works at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 1960 he was invited to take part in a competition, the "Premio Nazionale, the dance in painting" where he was awarded a gold medal by the Senate.
Having now become a professor at High School for the Plastic Arts, he no longer wishes to commercialize his works and devotes his time, far from the public eye, to a personal research of new expressions through forms: conceptual studies, plastic arts, and colours. Nonetheless, on the rare occasions that he does appear in public, the consensus is general.
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Portrait of Mariano Zela
by Franco Gentilini
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Harlequin
The artist often paints himself in his selfportraits as a dancing Harlequin. Closley bound to his native soil, he perceives in the harlequin traditions and fantasy combined with nonconformism all the lovely venetian tradition from Giorgione to Tiziano pulsates in this work.
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The laying of a stone paving
This is one of the most humble works which becomes epic in the context where it takes place. The simple workers who are re-doing Michelangelo's pavement in Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome acquire great dignity and become nearly immortal, almost overshadowing the statue of Marco Aurelio.
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Life after death
The synthetic colours used by the author are combined with the biological material creating out of dead things and things unborn, a burgeoning organism.
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Medal Showcase
A renewed meeting betwen life and death. Each single shell is a useless relict, but in context, relives magical and dinamic oppositions with those of its kind. Zela develops the complex concept of art as gives of immortality.
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Death in Venice
One of the most beatiful cities in the world, it may one day be doomed to disappear in the waters of its very lagoons. Water effaces time and with it all references to the actual Piazza San Marco. The young nude women could be as old at the city itself, dying with it an with its traditions (Harlequin).
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A Flash Landscape
The landscapes of his cherished native soil are relived only in Zela's memory. The artist seems to put, down on the convas what Joyce's teachings are all about: fragments of cerebral realities wich come together to create a new country wich exists only in the author's mind.
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Landscape
This landscape painted with oil and sand is another stage in Zela's experimentation. The roughness of the plants of this tormented landscape. After the cypresses, graveyard trees, finally a peaceful horizon.
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