Maurizio Donzelli
Born in Brescia, 1958
Maurizio Donzelli was born in 1958 in Brescia, where he lives and works. The poetic elements of his work have always focused on some focal points of artistic work: the concept of drawing, image revelation, the inevitability of the observer in the definition of the work, the relationship between light and color. The practice of drawing is the intellectual and technical instrument with which the artist compares artistic and philosophical reflection with the themes of the immateriality and temporality of the image, with its character of analogy or, more generally, of transfiguration and transformation. About drawing draw attention to the performances of his “Drawing Machine“, which, between 1999 and 2004, were hosted in various Italian cities, Germany and the United States. Another instrument to which Donzelli relies on a conceptual function is the mirror (“Mirror“, in his poetics) as a lens of observation, alteration and redefinition of perception in continuous temporal dynamics. In 2012, the artist named “Metamorfosi” his own personal exhibition, curated by Andrea Viliani, at Palazzo Fortuny Museum in Venice. Donzelli has taught for seven years Theory of Perception, Color Psychology, at the Naba Academy in Brescia. In his work he has produced numerous publications of which we mention “Spettacolo di Niente” (Edizioni Mazzotta, 2003), printed on his own exhibition at the National Calcography of Rome, curated by Luigi Ficacci; “Lo Sguardo Del Disegnatore” (Edizioni l’Obliquo); “Metamorfosi” (Mousse publishing, 2012); “La Linea Del Tutto“, by Luca Cerizza (Mousse publishing, 2016). His works are included in numerous public and private collections both Italian and foreign. Some critics and art historians wrote about his artistic research.
Marignana Arte
Spazio Berlendis