Burnt wood table sculpture with yakisugi technique and wabi-sabi philosophy by sculptor Dean Marino

Burnt wood table sculpture with yakisugi techinca and wabi-sabi philosophy by sculptor Dean Marino.

Title: " Sail " (version x)

"Soul of the Trees" series
Artist: Dan Marino
Year: 2022
Material: Wood
Technique: Yakisugi
Wabi-sabi philosophy
Measures 35x24x10cm approx
Single piece
Certificate of authenticity included

The images are an example.
You will receive a similar sculpture in shape, size and color but it will be a unique piece carved just for you.
The unique and unrepeatable veins and the workmanship performed by hand by the sculptor Dean Marino, guarantee you to own a unique object, with a certificate of authenticity included and signed by hand.
I need 3-5 days to get it and deliver it to the courier.


Presentation by Dino Santina (director of the Brescian Artists Associations)

Dean Marino (Marino Piotti)

A seven-hectare atelier to create his sculptures
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 goats, 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 him come back to life with his art, with his honest message.
Sometimes he also works metal as if to redeem it from the damnatio ad metalla, the sentence to forced labor practiced in ancient Rome
The works of Marino Piotti, depending on their size, can be placed on the table, in the entrance of the house, in a corner of the room. They are not furnishings, 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 the sculptures of Dean Marino.

Wabi-sabi
Wabi-sabi (侘 寂?) Constitutes a Japanese worldview, or aesthetic, founded on the acceptance of the transience and imperfection of things.

This vision, sometimes described as "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete beauty" [1] derives from the Buddhist doctrine of anitya (Sanskrit, Japanese 無常 mujō; impermanence).

Andrew Juniper states that "if an object or expression can cause within us a feeling of serene melancholy and spiritual ardor, then that object can be said to be wabi-sabi."

Yakisugi or Shou Sugi Ban (焼 杉 板) is an ancient Japanese woodworking technique dating back to 1300.
Given the absence of advanced treatments, the boards were expertly carbonized in order to provide the wood with more durability, increase its resistance to mold and insects, atmospheric agents and flames.
In my opinion, this technique lends itself very well to representing the passage of time and the challenges that life places before us