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Criticism by Rosa Spinillo
Zago and the Neo-Informal-Materico
Gianantonio Marino Zago doesnt want to be labelled nor pigeonholed; he is a multifaceted artist, versatile, deeply affected by the art of the second half of the XX century to which he belongs for birth but not for training or education.
He learnt on the road, gathering with other maudits artists like himself, among the many there was Mario Schifano. Zago has well absorbed Schifanos and Rauschenbeurgs styles and hes been deeply influenced by those, even if unconsciously.
Its impossible not to think of Warhol or Manzoni; a shade of our dear old 1900 is in the imagination of this artist who didnt study History of Art but he quotes it through his sensations and emotions. Hes completely subjugated to a passion for strong colours, a full red or a vivid blue which he makes sliding on the canvas like the Jackson Pollock dripping. And then, we dont have to forget about Burri with his bags and his combustions, nor Fontana with his neat lines; Zago is all this, and even more. He is ceaselessly in the process of researching even when he goes around collecting wastes, such as coke tins, syringes, condoms, smashed rackets, old shoes, lighters, cigarette butts, food remnants; I figure Zago in my head Daniel Spoerri in action, his infinite ideas which will inexorably turn rubbish into true Art; always with a whip of irony. What makes of an artist a real artist is irony, not taking oneself too seriously, the challenge, an open mind and high intellingence make the rest. And then the magic is done: a master piece is born as from a manufacturer demiurge God, a sort of protective numen living in every artist.
Art is the expression of ones real inner self, its the language reflecting the spirit of the artists time, its to communicate a message and to abandon provincialism. This is the only way to create the greatest Art, otherwise it is only an amateur work.
Zago has dedicated his life to Art; in his loneliness he has infinite ideas, fascinations, sensations. His beginnings are figurative; in the Nineties he exhibits in New York a collection of twenty landscapes picturing Verona, his beloved city. At the end of the Nineties he abandons Figurativism for Neo Divisionism melting into Abstraction. His mosaic works are the most famous of this period. But today, his attention is directed to Informal Art, with very powerful material dripping colour which dominates the surface, with cohexistence of still objects worn out by time, assemblage and ready-made post-duchampian; its almost a riedition of the Dada fairy tale omnipresent in our history. Art as provocation? Provoking has become a dominating element in any kind of language, very welcome if it serves the purpose of stirring consciences, but useless if it doesnt communicate anything. And the Monnezza, as Zago calls it, doesnt lay only on the corners of the streets but also in the conscience of our minds passively observing our fates with no will for intervening and change them. Zago is not only an artist, he is a dreamer who believes in a better world, a special person with no hypocrisy, loyal, real as a very few are. Not to forget the Zago photographer, digital artist; unquestionably remarkable. But to be honest, I prefer the latest Zago, the neo-Informal artist he is, with his creations of Monnezza; there he reaches the full potential of his creativity. I would suggest to him to keep on following this path researching new materials because Art is continuous research, research, research
You are a researcher born and bred; I am sure you understood me, with my best wishes!
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Marino Gianantonio in art Zago,was born in Trieste,north of Italy on 30/12/1949 and moved in Verona in 1957 where he still lives.
Self taught, with a degree in graphics advertising, begins to paint in the early 70, partecipated to a few collective exhibitions and still less personnels.
In 1996 he had one of his interesting exhibitions near Hofstra University in New York with about twenty of his works representing unpublished and interesting parts of Verona.
From 1994, he abandoned the figurative and landscape painting for an informal and figurative abstract mosaic style.
In love with colours, it dominates on the painting, but never in contrast among them.
From 1999 Zago was also ventured with a digital-art, because of his innate and intrinsic imagination and artistic versatility.
Currently spend's a lot of time for the creation of polimateric paintings composed by materials he recycle's or picks up from the streets.
Cans, plastic pieces, telephone cards, corks and all things the consumer society turns into rubbish.
Zago doesn't limit himself to only assemble paintings but enriches them artistically, using spry, acrylic, enamels and oils.
All these paintings he made will preserve segments of history of our times to leave to the meditation of the future.
From www.artmajeur.com/zago1949
Comments:
Stacho St.Szypura:
Dear Gianantonio. A pleasure hear from you. Thank you very much for favouriting. Your works are everytime absorbing. Friendly greetings Stacho
Posted 1 day ago.laserato:
Ciao Carissimo, grazie per le preferenze! ,-) ma che bello questo sito! ci sono molti bravissimi pittori, :-O e quanta gente simpatica.. Io ero abituato agli Str...i di Equi!! :-) saluti laserati Ferruccio
Posted Jul 10, 2008 10:37am.laserato:
ciao Egregio! .-)
Posted Jul 9, 2008 4:19pm.ERICK DATOR:
salamat! your works so nice
Posted Jun 27, 2008 11:04pm.Natalia Rudzina:
Thank you.
Posted Jun 27, 2008 12:41pm.souhir:
very nice.i like yor work
Posted Jun 20, 2008 11:08am.walter togni:
Grazie Gianantonio per il tuo commento e per le opere favorite, stimo molto il tuo talento, complimenti per le tue opere.
Posted Jun 11, 2008 3:33pm.Joerg Becker:
Hi ZAGO, thanks for your favorising of my pictures
Posted Jun 10, 2008 6:03pm.Kseniya:
Many thanks for your favoriting...:)
Posted Jun 9, 2008 9:07pm.Raluca Cristina Cirti:
wanderful! very creative work! compliments!
Posted Jun 9, 2008 6:28pm.Joseph Wyss:
Grazie Gianantonio!
Posted Jun 9, 2008 4:46pm.montrove:
Thanks for favouriting my painting" MIX 2" You art works , fantastic and good ompositions.Bravo!!
Posted Jun 9, 2008 7:25am.Joerg Becker:
Thank you for fovorizing my pictures INFERNO and SOUTHWEST..
Posted May 28, 2008 5:57pm.Ringfort:
Thank you :-)
Posted May 25, 2008 6:19pm.gitano:
cool man good spirit..god work
Posted May 16, 2008 11:21pm.Norbert Fleischer:
Very interesting technic. Famous pictures! Norbert
Posted May 13, 2008 12:20pm.Stacho St.Szypura:
Very interresting your works. Some of them let me asking, how do you do this. Thank you for added me to friends. Greetings Stacho
Posted May 5, 2008 2:15pm.Sylvea:
You have some very nice paintings, keep it up = )
Posted Apr 29, 2008 9:07pm.monet63 (Mimmo Ceccarelli):
Marino, sei sempre un grande... sei il motivo per cui ho iniziato ad apprezzare l'arte digitale. A proposito, dato che diventeremo ricchi e famosi insieme, il problema non si pone. ;)
Posted Apr 27, 2008 12:58am.montrove:
Thanks for choosing my painting to you favorite
Posted Apr 22, 2008 7:17pm.montrove:
very nice art works,exelent composition, bravo
Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:20pm.rabenstern:
Exciting artwork, well done!
Posted Apr 21, 2008 5:41am.C.S.Lawrence:
sorry didnt than you earlier for favouriting "Whitewash" (new to this site and the reciprocal commenting)..ooh just spotted your "Red & Black" figurative...cool! so much imaginative and fun stuff in your works
Posted Apr 20, 2008 6:35pm.michelangelo71(Brunella Neri):
Grazie,Sig.Zago! :) Bentrovato anche qui!
Posted Apr 17, 2008 8:40pm.Nazim Mehmet:
grazie Gianantonio...İ like your works and compositions..
Posted Mar 24, 2008 3:01pm.Julie_Huntsinger:
Thank you for visit and liking my Oak King....I see a little of you in him!
Posted Mar 24, 2008 1:54am.eddie lim:
Nice portfolio!
Posted Mar 23, 2008 1:44pm.Azlan545:
Thank you for being my friend
Posted Mar 17, 2008 9:30pm.Azlan545:
Fantastic...Amazing ideas
Posted Mar 14, 2008 9:04pm.Anita Dielen:
Cool stuff
Posted Feb 24, 2008 9:25am.FABIOLA BARNA:
perche' amico mio, questi fantastici lavori non li posti anche su equi......ho scitto fantastici e non esagero.....;)
Posted Feb 20, 2008 9:36am.amen:
Grazie Gianantonio, per il tuo comentario al mio lavoro.
Posted Feb 18, 2008 3:49pm.FABIOLA BARNA:
AIUTOOOOOOOOOOOO......COME FACCIO A CANCELLARLO?
Posted Feb 17, 2008 8:29am.FABIOLA BARNA:
EHEHHEHE TU SEI OVUNQUE.....SONO CONTENTA AMICO MIO.....EHEHEHEH
Posted Feb 17, 2008 8:04am.Justin Sharma:
Nice stuff
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