Artist Spotlight - Tinamaria Marongiu — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Tinamaria Marongiu is a Sardinian sculptor who has made waste material her most intimate artistic signature. A pioneer of COMPACT ART, an expression that translated into art in 2013, she invents a specific way of creating 3D art, combining old waste materials and new materials, inorganic and organic, metals, pastes and colors, which, when joined together, become a single and compact body, fragments of the universe and events of our existence.

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1134 the long arms of nature, 02/2022 cm.26x24x18

Contemporary man in his relationship with nature has triggered a real "war", continuously implementing structural and climatic changes in such a pervasive way as to negatively affect the natural processes of geology. Of this conflictual relationship, Marongiu takes on the guise of a careful seismograph that uses a very particular “toolbox”, capable of manipulating “what-it-finds” in its continuous wandering in search of organic and inorganic materials, thrown by that human army during its state of siege towards nature.

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1148 sepia bones, 07/2024 cm.23x29x16

COMPACT ART is the expression that Tinamaria uses regarding her artistic perspective: objects call her, often capture her, discovering in her the “serial accumulator” with a taut ear whose purpose is to unite, amalgamate, color five “U”s: Uniqueness, Universality, Union, Humanity, Equality, where her hand is magically guided by the universe world enclosed in that waste material, fabrics, pills, string, vials, wires, feathers, pieces of paper, stones and more.

COMPACT ART Box-Es n. 1147 birds, 05/2024 cm.52x52x26

A wider space opens up before her eyes in which to immerse herself and, at the same time, to immerse those who observe the result obtained, namely sculpture, an essential essence at the basis of human existence.
They form a whole capable of “compacting”, of making the found material “coexist” harmoniously with the materials shaped at the moment, mixed, in turn, with colors and resins creating, re-proposing, as the artist herself has had occasion to affirm, images of nature and fragments of events of our social life.

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1143 the frozen planet, 09/2023 cm.61x61x20

A journey towards new universes made by a “Compact Whole” respecting, even of the smallest fragment, its importance and uniqueness. Unity and Uniqueness, characteristics considered intrinsic because every entity, starting from the human being, is united and unique. To reach this artistic conception, Marongiu began her journey based on two basic constants: the plexiglass case renamed as “Box-Es”, with an obvious reference to the child who Freudianly acts on the basis of his sole impulses, playing and building free horizons without any planning, and the pill and everything that cures, a symbol at the same time of both the comfort and the discomfort of the Anthropocene.

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1139 once upon a time, 10/2022 cm. 74x54x22

Artist Statement

Born in Cagliari in 1961. Maria Cristina Marongiu, with the baptismal name "Cristina", approached the world of art as an interpreter of light music. At the end of the 70s she moved to Rome where she started a collaboration with already established authors and producers who gave her the opportunity to create and publish her first 45 rpm. At the beginning of the 80s, with the album entitled “Contremano”, always using her baptismal name, musical success arrived. Her great curiosity and need for new expressive methods will be the driving force for an incessant work of research and experimentation. Author of her songs, poetry, photography, up to the visual arts.

In 2010, with the stage name "Tinamaria" she created her first works of COMPACT ART Box-Es. Material creations without planning, with the desire to express herself freely within a standardized and conformist society. In 2011 she participated in the Chianciano Biennale and won the 3rd "Leonardo Prize" in the "Applied Arts" section. In October 2020 at the 43rd International Medusa Aurea "AIAM" Award she was 1st place, gold medal, for sculpture. In June 2021 she exhibited at the "London Art Biennale" and received the 4th Prize ex aequo with further exhibition in London. In 2022 she exhibited at the “Biennale di Chianciano” and won 1st Prize in the Applied Art section. The fame and originality of her Box-Es led her to exhibit successfully in Europe and the USA.

Box-Es n.1129 (the light) - 2021 cm72x52x21

SOLO SHOW

* July 1 / September 21 – 2011 “Art of Engagement” Art Fusion Galleries - Miami, Florida – U.S.A.

*October 1 / Dicember 21 – 2011 “ Synesthesya” Art Fusion Galleries - Miami, Florida – U.S.A.

* June 2/24 – 2012 “Fusion” – With the Patronage of Common of Gabicce Mare Comune di Gabicce Mare (PU) Italy

* November 09/12 2012 “Fiera Arte Padova” Padova - Italy * February 14/18 2013 “Fiera Arte Genova” Genova - Italy

* August 15/21 - 2013 “Box-Es Fotografie Pensieri Poesie” - With the Patronage of Orbetello’s Common c/o Archeological Museum Polveriera Guzman - Orbetello, Gr –Italy

* September 21/ October 4 - 2013 “Box-Es Fotografie Pensieri Poesie ”Garage n.3 Gallery – Mestre, Ve – Italy

* March15/ April 3 - 2014 “Box-Es” - International Museum of Art Glass - Montegrotto Terme, Italy

*June 20/ September 7 – 2014 “Tinamaria Exhibit Box-Es” - Hotel Leon d’Oro – Verona, Italy

* November 14/17 – 2014 “Fiera Arte Padova” - Padova, Italy

*April 18 – 2015 Hollywood ArtWalk “My Art is where I am ... even in a corner

street” Made From The Heart With Love Hollywood, Florida – U.S.A.

* October 6/12 – 2015“TM Box-Es - Photos and Sound-Poetry”-With the

Patronage of Oristano’s Common c/o Teatro San Martino – Oristano- Italy

* July 06/18 – 2016 Box-Es “CAMALDOLI” – With the Patronage of Department of Culture of the City of Naples – c/o PAN – NAPOLI

* November 22, 2018 / January 7, 2019 “TM Box-Es COMPACT ART” – With the Patronage of Tirana’s Common – c/o IICAS TiranArtGallery – Tirana, Albania

*January 18 February ... 2019“TINAMARIA MARONGIU Box-Es ARTE COMPATTA With the Patronage of ITALIAN CONSOLATE of VALONA, Albania

* November 12/15, 2021 "Fiera Arte Padova" - Padova, Italy

* May 1/31, 2022 TINAMARIA MARONGIU exhibit Box-Es “TERRESTRIAL TALES” –

With the Patronage of Cagliari’s Common c/o PALAZZO DOGLIO – Cagliari, Italy

* May 28 1/ June 11, 2023 TINAMARIA MARONGIU exhibit “COMPACT ART – ARTE COMPATTA” – With the Patronage of Common and Department of Culture of the City of Vasto c/o PALAZZO D’AVALOS Musei Civici Vasto, SALA BONTEMPO - Italy

* February 1/17, 2024 TINAMARIA MARONGIU exhibit Box-Es “COMPACT ART- ARTE COMPATTA” – c/o isArt Liceo Artistico Francesco Arcangeli – Bologna, Italy (circuit ART CITY BOLOGNA WHITE NIGHT)

*October 13/30, 2024 TINAMARIA MARONGIU exhibit “COMPACT ART”

Under the Patronage of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital

c/o PALAZZO VALENTINI, Roma - Italy

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1117 a world inside a plate, 2019 cm.39x43x17

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

* June 4 / November 26 - 2011 "BIENNALE DI VENEZIA - Sezioni Arti visive" Parallel event "insideoutsidebiennale" Poesy Pavilion - Italy

* September 3/ October 28 -2011 Itinerary 80 e Iperspazialismo (Collective) Atelier le Sous- Bois- Limoge, France

* September 17/24 -2011 "BIENNALE DI CHIANCIANO" Italy - (Winner of 3rd Prize "Leonardo" ex-aequo nella sezione "Applied Art"

* February 2/24 -2012 "Aires de Espana" BCM Art Gallery - Barcellona, Spain

* July 19/25 - 2012 "Aperitivo d'Arte" by Achille Bonito Oliva and Umberto Scrocca - Camponeschi - Roma, Italy

* July 26/August 1 - 2012 "Aperitivo d'Arte" by Achille Bonito Oliva and Umberto Scrocca - Camponeschi - Roma, Italy

* September 06/12 - 2012 "Aperitivo d'Arte" by Achille Bonito Oliva and Umberto Scrocca - Camponeschi - Roma, Italy

* Dicember 7 -2012 / January 26 - 2013 "Incandescent Jubilations" - Amsterdam Whitney Gallery - New York, USA

* May 04/19 - 2013 "Donne 900" - Palazzo Foschi Numai, Museo Ornitologico - Forlì, Italy

* June 01/02 - 2013 "Embassy Pavilion" (Collective) "dentrofuoribiennale - Parallel Event" - Garage n.3 Gallery - Mestre, Ve - Italy

* Dicember 7 - 2013 / January 26 - 2014 "Gli Artisti" - Inetrnational Museum of Art Glass - Montegrotto Terme, Italy

* February 22/March 13 - 2014 MATERIA PRIMA - International Museum of Art Glass - Montegrotto Terme, Italy

* May 23/26 - 2014 "IL REALE E LO SCENARIO/LE REEL ET LE DECOR" - Belleville, Paris - France

* July 30 - 2014 "Omaggio a Stefan Luchian" - Forte Marghera - Venezia - Italy

* December 20 - 2014 / March 30 - 2015 G&S Alternative Space - Hollywood, Florida - USA

* February 28 - 2015 "NATURA" SPECIAL EVENT - Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery -

Miami, Florida - USA

* June 12/28 - 2015 Pesaro Arte 2015 - (Tinamaria Marongiu guest artist out of competition) - Alexander Museum Palace - Pesaro, Italy

* June 18/25 - 2015 Aperitivo d'Arte ELECTRONIC ART CAFÈ - Camponeschi - Roma, Italy

* June 29/ July 5 - 2015 1st International Biennial of Art FB - Cesena, Italy

* July 9/12 - 2015 Art Monaco 2015 - Monaco, Montecarlo - France

* August 13/October 31 - 2015 Milano Expo 2015 International Contemporary Art - Centrale Idroelettrica Terzo - Trezzo sull'Adda, Milano - Italy

* October 23/25 - 2015 Carrousel du Louvre - Art shopping faire d'Art Parisienne au Louvre - Paris, France * December 3/6 - 2015 MIAMI RIVER Art Fair - Miami, Florida - USA

* February 4/19 - 2016 "PLASTICA" FONDAZIONE BARTOLI FELTER - Cagliari, Sardegna - Italy

* October 1/21 - 2017 BIENNALE DI CASERTA - Belvedere San Leucio - Caserta, Italy

* October 7/11 - 2020 - 43mo Premio Medusa Aurea per le Arti Visive - AIAM (Accademia Internazionale di Arte Moderna) Roma - Italy

* June 30 / July 04 - 2021 LONDON ART BIENNALE - London, UK

* March 28 / April 05 - 2024 BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DELL’ETRURIA – c/o Galleria LA PIGNA, (UCAI) - Roma, IT

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1105 the key to power cm.70x60x17 - 09/2015

AUCTIONS :

September 29 - 2014 CaputMundi

May 6 - 2017 Picenum

November 19 - 2017 Picenum

December 16 - 2018 Picenum

May 31 - 2020 Picenum

COMPACT ART Box-Es n.1104 suspended on time cm.50x60x15

PRIZES :

* Biennale Chianciano - 2011 3° prize “Leonardo Award” for Applied Arts

* AIAM - Roma (Accademia Internazionale Arte Moderna) 43° Premio Internazionale Medusa Aurea - 2020 1° prize Gold medal Sculpture Section

* London Art Biennale - 2021 2° prize Gagliardi Gallery Award “TINAMARIA MARONGIU winner” she'll be one of the 25 artists selected from the London Art Biennale for an exhibition that will take place in 2022

* Chianciano Biennale – 2022 - 1° prize APPLIED ART

*** Tinamaria Marongiu has been present for eight years, to date, in the famous Modern Art Catalog CAM, published by the Mondadori publishing house with the relative artistic quotation

www.tinamariamarongiu.it

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