
HUGO DE MARZIANI (b. 1941, Argentina)
“For me, art has to do with science. I investigate like a scientist. Neither beauty nor narrative are important to me. I look for form and I see how, along with line and color, I can place them in space...”
Born in Ciudad de La Plata, Argentina, Hugo De Marziani studied drawing and printmaking at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata from 1956 to 1958. While there, he carefully collected avant-garde art publications, such as Arte Nuevo and Nueva Visión, and he meticulously studied reproductions of works by artists Piero Della Francesca, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitsky and Kazimir Malevich, among others. He took classes with Adolfo de Ferrari, where he learned the basics of Cubism, and he was in dialogue with the important Concrete artists in Buenos Aires during the 1950s. His early work looks to the optical effects of movement through his use of color and geometric forms. By repeating a basic form, and using black and white, he developed images that seem to be in flux. In his early works, De Marziani was especially interested in the color blue, which he believed could function as both space and form at the same time. In his use of color, De Marziani looked to the color theories of Joseph Albers and his seminal text The Interaction of Color, to research the interactions of different colors.
In the mid-1970s, De Marziani traveled in France and Italy. From 1975-76, he lived in Milan, after receiving the Francesco Romero painting award from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Italian government. During this period, he began making abstract paintings with landscape themes. Art critic Marta Traba includes him in a generation of artists interested in a new kind of realism. She writes, “In opposition to the excesses, ironies, criticisms, and disfigurations of fantastic realism we find synthetic realism, which emphasized economy of means and fusions of forms, rather than dissolutive irreality. In the landscapes of a number of artists active in the years between 1950 and 1970 there is a visible intent not only to describe a given space but also to provide an element of lyric surprise.”
In 1984, De Marziani received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he moved to New York in 1985. While there, he studied the drawings of Georges Seurat. In the late 1990s, he taught drawing and painting classes in the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova in Buenos Aires. Since the early 2000s, De Marziani has been returning to early abstractions. His newest body of work incorporates volume through the superposition of planes and textures.
Hugo De Marziani currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 | Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2006 | Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2004 | Hugo De Marziani: Antología 30 Años, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2003 | Galería Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería Niko Gulland, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2000 | Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1999 | Homenaje a Jorge Luis Borges: Dibujos sobre tela, Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1998 | Hugo De Marziani en el MNBA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1997 | Galería Niko Gulland, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1996 | Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1994 | Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1993 | Galería Niko Gulland, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1991 | Galería Clásica y Moderna, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1990 | Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1989 | Galería Hoy en el Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1988 | Galería Niko Gulland, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1987 | Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de La Plata, Argentina |
1986 | Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1984 | Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1983 | Abril Cultural Salteño, Fundación Banco del Noroeste, Salta, Argentina |
| Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Paisajes 10 Años 1973/1983, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1982 | Encuentros entre un pintor y su memoria, Fundación Unión Carbide, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1981 | Galería de Arte 9 de Lima, Peru |
| Vermeer Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1980 | Galería Nelly Tomas, La Plata, Argentina |
1979 | Galería Áurea, Rosario, Argentina |
1978 | Galería ELE, Cordoba, Argentina |
| Arte Nuevo Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería del Mar, Mar del Plata, Argentina |
1977 | Galería Víctor Najmías, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería Scheinsohn, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería Birger, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1976 | Galería Artemúltiple, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería Birger, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1975 | Arte Nuevo Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1974 | Galería LAASA, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1973 | Galería Carmen Waugh, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería LAASA, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1972 | Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1969 | Galería Austral, La Plata, Argentina |
1968 | Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1967 | Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1966 | Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Centro Cultural de Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Colección Chateau CAC, Córdoba, Argentina
Colección Embajada de Italia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Fundación Delmar, La Plata, Argentina
Colección Fundación Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Marcos Curi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Pablo Birger, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección S.A. ALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duncan Collection, New York, NY, USA
Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Galería del Libertador, San Lorenzo, Santa Fe. Argentina
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Cancillería Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Conteporáneo Latinoamericano (MACLA), La Plata, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Fundación Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Córdoba, Argentina
Museo Municipal de Arte (MUMART), La Plata, Argentina
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata, Argentina
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Dr. Genaro Pérez de Córdoba, Argentina
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio A. Caraffa, Córdoba, Argentina
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes René Brusau, Chaco, Argentina
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez de Santa Fe, Argentina
Museo Provincial de San Luis, Argentina
National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India
Palais de Glace, Salas Nacionales de Exposiciones de Buenos Aires, Argentina