Diego Mariani

My name is Diego, I was born in Milan in 1982 and since then I have always lived in this multifaceted city.
For as long as I can remember, I have always drawn: I think that art is a part of me from which I cannot detach myself.

Living in Milan has always given me an opportunity to move forward with my art, without setting limits of material or technique.
In fact, I have always been looking for my sign, which is always distinguishable even if used in always different circumstances. I grew up with a lot of visual stimuli and inspirations of various kinds, starting with graphics (taught to me by my father and continued in high school) through writing and street art, finally channeled into abstractionism. I have an art baccalaureate and a graphic design diploma.

The technique that I have preferred for many years is that of abstract watercolor, which always manages to give me satisfaction from the point of view of rendering and, above all, never tires me thanks to its intrinsic unpredictability. Watercolor manages to bring out what I want to express and often makes it happen spontaneously, while recognizing the role that control and mastery must have with this technique.

In the past I worked with: Pasquale D'Orlando (known fo...

Diego Mariani (Milan, March 15, 1982) takes his first steps in the field of art with brilliant results since the art school. His father Roberto Mariani and the work of his maternal uncle Alberto Schiavi were formative for the start of his path, which from the beginning has a graphic imprint. The pictorial language of the latter, called "Virtual Art", transforms minimal quantities of color into luminous dust that dissolve and give life to the elements of the picture using traditional pictorial means and at the same time particular supports, creating an incorporeal and floating image, component style that Diego Mariani borrowed above all in his watercolors.
He continues on the path of graphics through visual investigations in the field of advertising, photography and coordinated product image.
In the meantime, he approaches the instinctive nature of Pasquale D'Orlando's abstract drawing, discovering a very personal painting technique.
His works also owe a lot to Aerosol Art and Street Art, of which he is a passionate practitioner, and from which he detects a graphic virtuosity with bright colors.
The lively drafts invest the background with vitality and its streams of color diluted with water radiate emotion on the observer, just...

- Personal exhibition entitled "VISIoni" at the Dynamo nightclub in Milan from March 27th to April 15th 2007

- Personal exhibition entitled "My women" at the Dynamo nightclub in Milan from 29 March to 18 April 2009

- Personal exhibition entitled "My women" at the local FrescoArt in Milan from 18 June to 3 September 2009

- Collective exhibition entitled "The Lions Club: the exhibition" at Palazzo Granaio in Settimo Milanese from 12 November to 3 December 2009

- Personal exhibition entitled "Women in blue" at the venue in Milan from June 18th to September 3rd 2009

- Personal exhibition entitled "My women" at the local FrescoArt in Milan from 18 June to 3 September 2009

- Personal exhibition entitled "2Turin" at Ohne Titel Lab in Turin from 18 to 30 March 2011

-First classified according to the popular jury during the international art collective "Intuizione Expression", sponsored by the Province of Milan, Casa delle Culture (2011)

- Personal exhibition entitled "Reading expressive forms" at the Marea bookshop in Milan from 23 February to 2 March 2012

- Personal exhibition entitled "On the trail of Rorschach" at the Centro Sinergia in Milan from 3 May to 5 June 2013

- Participation in the collective "Judg...