We Offer You Unique Creations and Sculptures Created by Dean Marino Sculptor
Presentation written by: Dino Santina (President of the Brescian Artists Association)
Dean Marino (Marino Piotti)
An adult vocation, a self made artist, a great freedom of expression.
Here is Marino, there is no need to ask him many questions because he is a river in flood (like his Mella, which comes from the Maniva and flows into the Oglio after 96 kilometers, when it is swollen after heavy rains). On the other hand he worked as a merchant for a lifetime, he did not talk about art and only in 2019 did he discover his vein, following, as much as he needs, the wabi sabi, the Japanese philosophy that praises simplicity and imperfection in the beauty that passes.
In his mountain house, surrounded by seven hectares of meadows and woods, together with his dogs and sheep, he finds energy, inspiration, he does not draw, he does not paint, he chooses the materials, recycled wood, stones without hiding their defects, indeed them. exalts with the work of his hands, under the dictation of the heart and intuition.
On the other hand - he says - Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a physically small woman, not beautiful, she came from Albania, a country then behind the curtain, yet she became a great world star, known, loved, appreciated.
And he did good, so much good.
Here the art of Marino Piotti is a bit like the human story of this nun. He does not cut the tree, when a living being, like a piece of wood, like the pole of a roller shutter, has finished its use, he takes it back and makes it come back to life with his art, with his honest message.
He prefers, as if to propose a unity of purpose, to create pairs or triplets, for example three poles of wood, chestnut, but also of fir and elm, brush them by hand, dig them to a minimum, create an armor with fire, giving the material a state of intangibility from external elements (remember? when a pole is planted in the ground it rots quickly if it is not treated with suitable materials or, as Marino does, with the gentle and wise use of fire); and then, in nearby Mella, look for the stones to put on top of the pole, more than a hat it is an element that completes the work, the shape is essential, not all stones are good, they must sink into the wood almost to become one body.
Sometimes he also works metal as if to redeem it from the damnatio ad metalla, the sentence to forced labor practiced in ancient Rome. room.
They are not furnishings, they are works of art that adorn your home; they are regenerated material with a new life that temper the spirit and wisdom of our daily life.
Many have understood this and in fact closely, as from France, the United States and elsewhere want Marino's TOTUS.
Philosophy:
Wabi-sabi (侘 寂) constitutes a Japanese worldview, or aesthetic, founded on the acceptance of the transience and imperfection of things. This view, sometimes described as "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete beauty" derives from the Buddhist doctrine of anitya (impermanence)
Dean Marino (Marino Piotti)
An adult vocation, a self made artist, a great freedom of expression.
Here is Marino, there is no need to ask him many questions because he is a river in flood (like his Mella, which comes from the Maniva and flows into the Oglio after 96 kilometers, when it is swollen after heavy rains). On the other hand he worked as a merchant for a lifetime, he did not talk about art and only in 2019 did he discover his vein, following, as much as he needs, the wabi sabi, the Japanese philosophy that praises simplicity and imperfection in the beauty that passes.
In his mountain house, surrounded by seven hectares of meadows and woods, together with his dogs and sheep, he finds energy, inspiration, he does not draw, he does not paint, he chooses the materials, recycled wood, stones without hiding their defects, indeed them. exalts with the work of his hands, under the dictation of the heart and intuition.
On the other hand - he says - Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a physically small woman, not beautiful, she came from Albania, a country then behind the curtain, yet she became a great world star, known, loved, appreciated.
And he did good, so much good.
Here the art of Marino Piotti is a bit like the human story of this nun. He does not cut the tree, when a living being, like a piece of wood, like the pole of a roller shutter, has finished its use, he takes it back and makes it come back to life with his art, with his honest message.
He prefers, as if to propose a unity of purpose, to create pairs or triplets, for example three poles of wood, chestnut, but also of fir and elm, brush them by hand, dig them to a minimum, create an armor with fire, giving the material a state of intangibility from external elements (remember? when a pole is planted in the ground it rots quickly if it is not treated with suitable materials or, as Marino does, with the gentle and wise use of fire); and then, in nearby Mella, look for the stones to put on top of the pole, more than a hat it is an element that completes the work, the shape is essential, not all stones are good, they must sink into the wood almost to become one body.
Sometimes he also works metal as if to redeem it from the damnatio ad metalla, the sentence to forced labor practiced in ancient Rome. room.
They are not furnishings, they are works of art that adorn your home; they are regenerated material with a new life that temper the spirit and wisdom of our daily life.
Many have understood this and in fact closely, as from France, the United States and elsewhere want Marino's TOTUS.
Philosophy:
Wabi-sabi (侘 寂) constitutes a Japanese worldview, or aesthetic, founded on the acceptance of the transience and imperfection of things. This view, sometimes described as "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete beauty" derives from the Buddhist doctrine of anitya (impermanence)