Joseph Marioni

JOSEPH MARIONI (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943).
"Yellow painting. 2001.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, titled and dated on the back.
Size: 107 x 102 cm.
From the seventies onwards, Joseph Marioni began an aesthetic exploration of the limits of painting. In monochrome paintings such as this one, there is a special tension between colour, light and support: Marioni repeatedly applies layers of satin colour on the painting in such a way that, depending on the incidence of light and the viewer's position, they reveal the underlying layers of colour.
The painting of the American painter Joseph Marioni falls within the sphere of influence of the New York Radical Painting group, with which he shares above all the research into the parameters of painting. Joseph Marioni's works, created in a characteristic manner since 1970, combine to form a conceptual oeuvre with a resounding aesthetic that allows us to ask fundamental questions about the genre of painting. Marioni has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His works are represented in major private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Kolumba (Museum) in Cologne, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kunstmuseum St. Joseph Marioni lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions (selection): 2006: Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA 2007: Liquid Light, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, USA 2007: University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, USA 2008: Liquid Light, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA. 2008: Drawing Color - between Black and White, Mark Müller Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2009: Beneath the Seen, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, USA 2010: Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium 2011: 90 Years of New: Joseph Marioni, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA 2012: Painting, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2013: Marioni/MacPherson, UQ Art Museum, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia