Monica Marioni

biography


Monica Marioni was born near Treviso in 1972, but moved to the area of Vicenza when she was still very young, and here she still lives several months a year. She instinctively approached art during her studies, enrolling at the Vicenza Institute of Art; nevertheless, she obtained a degree in statistical sciences because of her passion for mathematics, a science in which she has found ample space for creativity.
She spent several years in a large industrial group, thereby developing strong ties with certain materials and the types of manipulation functional to them. In 2005 she leaves any other job and activity to devote herself to full time art career, and starts to translate her matherical attitude in the dense material nature of her first abstract works, created on the most disparate supports, with a wealth of strong juxtapositions between metals, plastics, earth and resins, which she commanded through an intense manual action of selection and transformation. Her personal shows at Contarini-Fasan Palace in Venice and at Yvonne Artecontemporanea gallery in Vicenza in 2007 were expressions of this phase.
Her continuous and intense experimentation rapidly led her to take action with respect to her own artistic magm...