“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness,
that its effect may work back, from without to within”
Caspar David Friedrich
Biography
Marina Taroni was born in Como in 1960. Until the age of 20 she lived in the lake area in the vicinities of Villa Passalacqua. Despite the awards won in painting competitions, her parents did not encourage young Marina’s love for painting. She attended languages high school in Como and studied history of art.
In the Eighties she moved to Milan, and worked for more than a decade in the editorial staff of the fashion magazine Italian Harper’s Bazaar. This long experience will have a deep influence on the processing of her aesthetic taste.
In the following decade she got married and, becoming a mother, started working as a freelance journalist: she wrote about foreign television and broadcasting companies, together with interviews to prominent figures of CNN, BBC, and CNBC, including articles related to many other worldwide-prestigious TV channels.
Wishing to embrace a lifestyle closer to nature, in the year 2000 she moved to the countryside in the small town of Besano (Unesco World Heritage), on Lake Lugano. Interested in painting, Marina Taroni started practicing it in the atelier-school of master painter Michele Ferrari (micheleferrari.info), where she formed her artistic education, developing own intuitions and creative potentialities and finding a her own personal artistic path.
Her works have been exhibited and published alongside artists such as Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalì, Pierre Fernandez Arman, and renowned Italian artists like Mimmo Rotella and Marco Lodola, to name a few.
She currently lives and works in Besano (Lake Lugano).
Critic
Marina Taroni’s works represent a language that translates landscape into an inner experience: these wild and solitary places are through where the artist’s view comes to life.
In Marina Taroni’s paintings the landscapes are not passive views; rather they are open windows onto the true essence of that wonderful masterpiece which is Creation, and they are transformed into soul places, that represent synthesis of deep feeling, lived or dreamed.
The artist gives herself to Nature to dictate its colors and its ancestral meanings. These visions, capable of distancing us from the clamour of the world, continue beyond the boundaries of canvas and are transformed into a mental and emotional experience in the face of Nature’s majesty, the key theme of her works.
Marina Taroni’s works are imbued with biophilic fascination and are open to exploration, developed within an infinite space of distant and almost unattainable horizon that allow the gaze to expand beyond reality, toward the imagination of introspective and metaphysical universes.
Humanity, although absent, is permanently evoked as the receiver of her works.
The artist rejects any constraints by current fashion and remains faithful to her own pictorial vision: observing her paintings, we find ourselves immersed and abandoned in a primordial world of extraordinary beauty that opens the way to our inner Self.
Gallery
BREATH
(oil on canvas)
Triptych cm 360 x 150
BLANK
(oil on canvas)
Diptych cm 200 x 120
THE UNEXPECTED
(oil on canvas)
Diptych cm 200 x 120
THE ESSENCE
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE HOPE
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE LAST LIGHT
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE SILENCE
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
NACKED SOUL
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
REDEMPTION
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE TRUTH
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE ENCOUNTER
(oil on canvas)
cm 150 x 120
THE BREAKTHROUGH
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
THE TALE
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
MOTHER EARTH
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 80
ILLUSION
(oil on canvas)
cm 120 x 100
ArtBoxExpo – Basel Art Week (Basel)
Arte nel Cuore – Spazio IsolaSet – Palazzo di Regione Lombardia (Milan)
Luxury Como – Sala Bianca Teatro Sociale (Como)
Milano Fashion & Art (IV Edition) – San Babila Gallery (Milan)
Deep Art Shine – Deep Gallery (Lugano – Switzerland)
Spectrum Art Fair (Miami – USA)
Only One Earth – Sarjha Expo Center (Dubai – UAE)
Donation through Premio Eccellenze Italiane for Save the Children (Bergamo – Italy)
ContemporaneaMente – Art Events Mazzoleni
San Bartolomeo Cloister (Bergamo Italian Capital of Culture 2023)
Donation through Charity Stars – Gold for Kids for Umberto Veronesi Foundation
Teatro Sociale (Como -Italy)
International Art Awards – The Golden Palette – Award Winning Artist
Splendide Royal (Lugano – Switzerland)
Renaissance – Majid Foundation (Ascona – Switzerland)
Spirit of the Union – World Trade Center (Dubai)
Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts – Palazzo Velli Expo (Rome)
Italian Vanity Art Exhibition – Cartoon Gallery (Dubai)
Anatomy of Beauty – Ex Fornace Gola (Milano)
Biophilic (r)Evolution – Solo Exhibition – Botel 2.0-0 (Lake Lugano)
Shades of Art – Art Events Mazzoleni Gallery (Alzano Lombardo)
Stanze – Mini Solo Exhibition – Antica Saliera Art Gallery (Lecce)
Art is Now – Antiquum Oratorium Passionis Basilica S. Ambrogio (Milan)
Arte Milano | The Factory – Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan)
Io | Es | Super-Io – Antica Saliera Art Gallery (Lecce)
Pure White – Palazzo Tanzarella (Ostuni)
Blackout – CBK Museum (Amsterdam)
Anatomy of Beauty – Casa Cava (Sassi Matera)
Woman in Art – Mazzoleni Art Gallery (Alzano Lombardo)
The Artists in Sgarbi’s Collection – Villa Cavallini Sgarbi (Ro Ferrarese)
Animus et Anima – Casa Cava (Sassi Matera)
W.W.A.S. – Cælum Gallery (Manhattan – New York)
Arte Salerno – Palazzo Fruscione (Salerno)
Contemporary at Sale del Bramante – Sale del Bramante (Rome)
Italian Vanity Art Exhibition – Gallery of Light (Dubai)
MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona)
Contemporary in Villa – Mazzucchelli Museums Picture Gallery (Brescia)
MAG Art Prize – Award Winning Artist -Mediolanum Bank Foundation (Padua)
Internazionale Italia Arte – MIIT Museum (Turin)
Arte Paris – Espace Peugeot (Paris)
Veritas Feminae – Villa Bernasconi (Cernobbio, Lake Como)
Grande Maestro Art Prize – Award Wining Artist – Palazzo Francavilla (Palermo)
Contemporary in Uffizi’s Town (Florence)
GemlucArt – Auditorium Prince Rainier III (Principalty of Monaco)
Cinema in the Art – Mazzoleni Art Gallery (Venice)
FTP2FE – Thinking Factory (Milan)
Summer Art – Art Events – Forte Village Resort (Sardinia)
Veritas Feminae – Armory and Duchy Museum (Amalfi)
Art in Comparison on Lagoon – Mazzoleni Foundation (Venice)
Veritas Feminæ – Casa Cava (Matera)
Italian Art Fair – Gallery of Light (Dubai)
Art in Comparison – Mazzoleni Foundation (Alzano Lombardo, Bg)
The Enchantment of Beauty – Solo Exhibition – Is Molas Golf (Sardinia)
Ode to Food for Expo 2015 – Pisacane Art Gallery (Milan)
Milano Art Week – Expo in Town – Chie Art Gallery (Milan)
Italian Soul – Art Hub (Abu Dhabi)
Italian Soul – Contemporary Art in UAE (Dubai)
Artists at Villa Borromeo (Viggiù – Varese)
Collini Art Prize – Villa Passalacqua – Award Winning Artist (Moltrasio – Lake Como)
Plinius Como City Award – Award Winning Artist – Magistri Cumacini (Como)