Hugo De Marziani

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 Lissitzky 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.

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