Claudio Marziali

Claudio Marziali is an Italian artist living in Bergamo; he senses a strong connection with the wood element, which he has always worked with , also as a specialist restorer.
When still an adolescent child, he becomes passionate about art, and turns to analogue photography. His style includes naturalistic and experimental images with a strong intimate quality. Later, he turns to painting and sculpture, which will become his favourite expressive medium.
Influenced by the East and by the works of architects such as Nakashima and artists like Kenjirō Azuma – as
well as Louise Nevelson – he creates his last collection of wooden sculptures “Recuperi”, in which the
strong connection between the artist and the natural world is obvious.
Marziali opposes the adulteration and distortion of wood, opting instead for spontaneous manipulations of
the shapes, and preferring gold as the best tool to highlight the areas which are most damaged and
corroded by time.
In accordance with the zen philosophy of kintsugi, where beauty in an object is enhanced by its breaking,
and with the way of seeing things, also Japanese, of wabi-sabi – which welcomes and enhances the
imperfections of time – Marziali has created works which are defined precise...

2022: Kintsugi, old wood in old alleys, Spazio espositivo LaFenice, Bergamo (Italy)
2021: Art2Night, Bergamo (Italy)
2020: Ladri d'anime, Spazio Cento4, Bergamo (Italy)
2019: Segni e geometrie, Le Stanze-Biblioteca A.Meli, Trescore Balneario (Bergamo, Italy)