structure dynamique “expansion” 1963

patinated steel, H 70,5 x L 84 x P 64 cm

Born in 1920, Teana, Italy

Died in 2012, France

 

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Born on 8th  August 1920, in Teana, in Basilicat Province, near Potenza in South Italy.At age 16, emigrated to Argentina as a mason. At age 22, became a construction site manager.
At the same time, he studied in the evening at the Salguero Polytechnic at the  Architectural National School.
Entered the Higher National School of Fine Arts Ernesto de la Carcova in Buenos Aires via an entrance competition.
Graduated with the title of Higher Professor and obtained a professorship at that school.
Won the Premio Mittre, equivalent to the European Grand Prix de Rome.

Returned to Europe in 1952, settling in Paris. In 1956, his works are exhibited in the Denise René gallery.Beginning with 1960, Denise René organizes several exhibitions of di Teana’s works. 

Since that time, he participates in numerous presentations of contemporary art in France and abroad. His oeuvre is shown at many museums like Ixelles in Belgium, Leverkusen, Frankfurt, Munster, Copenhagen, Tome in Japan, …
He was present in the Stendhal gallery  in Milan, Redfern Gallery in London, Claude Bernard and Artcurial in Paris

In the 70s begins a series of comprehensive retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the City of Paris in 1976, Museum in Pau in 1981, National Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken in 1987, among others.
He represents Argentina at the Biennale of Venice in 1982, and France at the International Symposium of the Arts and the Sciences of Seoul ( Korea) in 1997..

His works are acquired for public collections: the Museum of  Contemporary Art of the City of Paris, the George Pompidou Center, National Contemporary Art Museum, The New Contemporary Art Museum MACVAL, several French FRACs (National Contemporary Art Fund) as well as for  renown private collections such as the  L'OREAL company, Claude Pompidou, Francois PINAULT or PIERRE BERGÉ collections, The Marcel Joray collection in Switzerland, The Thomas Neirynck donation at the King Baudouin Fundation in Belgium.

Di Teana realizes winning projects for public commission: more than 50 monumental sculptures as much as 20 m high (Paris/Fontenay sous Bois, Montpelier, Orléans-Chevilly, the military Canjuers head quarters, Var).The sculpture "Liberté, Hommage to the General de Gaulle" in Fontenay is one of the largest sculptures of Europe. (23 meters High in Corten Steel)

Exhibitions

Expositions / Exhibitions

 

2017

Exposition " Marino Di Teana, forgeron de l'espace ", citadelle de Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Rpovence, France)

 

2015

Exposition rétrospective à la galerie LOFT : maquettes, sculptures, mobilier et tableaux

 

1992

Exposition " l'imaginaire ... de Marino Di Teana - carte blanche à Artcurial " à Brive-la-Gaillarde (France)

Exposition au Grand Palais pour la FIAC (galerie Carlhian)

Exposition à la galerie Dukto d'un ensemble de maquettes

 

1990

Exposition personnelle à Neuchâtel (France), à l'initiative de Marcel Joray.

 

1963

Foire de Paris au Grand Palais.

 

1960

" Marino Di Teana ", exposition personnelle à la galerie Denise René (Paris, France)

 

1955

Du 21 Octobre au 3 Novembre,, première exposition à la galerie du Haut-Pavé ( Paris, France)

 

International art fairs

Rewards

 

The First Prize of Saint Gobain awarded by a jury comprising Zadkine, Michel Seuphor and Alberto Giacometti.

the Honorary Diploma of the 14th Triennial in Milan, Italy

Silver Medal at the International Congress of Architecture, awarded by Willy Brandt, in Bochum, Germany.

Two gold medals awarded by the Provincia di Basilicata and  Teana – the artist’s native village in Italy.

Appointment a member of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Argentina (Buenos Aires).

Medal of Recognition from the University of Seoul,  South Korea.

Silver Medal from the General Council of the Val-de-Marne Department in France

Grand Silver Medal awarded by the French Academy of Architecture for the body of his work.

Honorary medal at the 16th Sculpture International Triennal of Poznan, Poland

Appointed Citoyen d’Honneur by the region of Basilicata, Italy

Appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.