Biography
Marina Apollonio’s artistic investigation focuses on creating perceptual stimuli through a combination of pure forms. - Stefano Mudu
Born in Trieste on November 12, 1940, she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, formed by Giuseppe Santomaso. In the 1960s, Apollonio began to design illusionist visual experiences. By choosing primary forms such as the circle, the artist studies his structural possibilities to be able to make the work active.
Along with other members of the kinetic movement, Marina Apollonio shares the desire for depersonalized art, in opposition to the concept of expressive abstraction. It uses modern industrial materials to create structures calculated in such a way that they transform into space.
In many works, the viewer has to rotate a circular plane alternately painted with black and white stripes. This movement causes a strong optical effect and plays with the viewer's gaze.
Marina Apollonio is one of the most important kinetic artists with works exhibited in the world's greatest collections such as the Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Hermes Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art in Turin, the New Museum in New York, the MACBA of Buenos Aires as well as the Villa Datris Foundation in France. Interest in his work continues to grow, as shown by his participation in group exhibitions such as Dynamo at the Grand Palais or, more recently, Vertigo at Mumok in Austria. The Artefacts website also highlights this growth, thus accompanying the other women artists enjoying these times a valuation of their work.
Works
Exhibitions
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The 100th Show
29 May - 28 Jun 2024Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present “The 100th Show”, the 100th show at the gallery bringing together the works of Marina Apollonio, Ennio L. Chiggio, Alexis Hayère, Piotr Kowalski,...Read more -
Mouvement et Déplacement
23 Dec 2022 - 23 Feb 2023Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present «Movement and Displacement», a collective exhibition bringing together the works of kinetic artists from Europe and Latin America. Although this movement brings together...Read more -
Déplacements
15 Jul - 29 Sep 2021“In an era filled with ever greater speed, ever-surpassed records; in the air, on water or on land, and with limits, such as the sound barrier, ever more briskly crossed,...Read more
Off-Site
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Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy 12 Oct 2024 - 3 Mar 2025In the fall of 2024, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection devotes a major solo exhibition to Marina Apollonio (b. 1940), a leading representative of international Optical...Read more -
Art Miami
Miami, USA 5 - 9 Dec 2023Espace Meyer Zafra is pleased to present our Booth AM312 for Art Miami Fair 2023. Central to our presentation is Jesus Rafael Soto’s 1994 artwork...Read more -
Mouvement et Lumière #2
Fondation Villa Datris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 19 May - 1 Nov 2023'10 years after our first Movement and Light exhibition in 2012 at Villa Datris, the Movement and Light 2023 exhibition is much more than a...Read more