Julien Marinetti (born 1967) is a French painter, sculptor and visual artist. He is the creator of "Doggy John" series of sculptures.
Biography edit
Julien Marinetti was born on 19 January 1967, in Paris.[1] He spent his childhood in the neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, next to the School of Fine Arts, which he attended a few years later.[2] He also worked at the workshops of artists Paul Belmondo and Edmond Heuzé, in the same area.[3]
Later, he studied the nude at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière[4] and developed a great interest in the academic drawing.
In 1997, a meeting with the painter Jean Dewasne became a turning point for Marinetti.[5] He discovered the constructive abstraction concepts and antisculptures. Not only the represented object is important but the additional treatment on it (such as paintings).[clarification needed].[6]
His first exhibitions in the 1990s (Salon des Independants, Salon de la Jeune Peinture etc.) were focused on the reinterpretation of the major issues of religious painting - Crucifixion, Transfiguration, Adam and Eve in different styles; classicism, realism, figuration libre.[7]
In 2004, he returned to sculpture and invented "Doggy John", a bronze bulldog on which he applies a pictorial treatment, mixing painting and sculpture. He developed a syncretism of art where the sculpture is not a figurative object by itself but becomes the support of a pictorial work. In 2007, his work "Doggy John-Obama" was presented at the Grand Palais. Since then, his sculptures have been exhibited in several countries and galleries worldwide.[7][8]
In 2009 and 2010, while exploring the relationship between painting and sculpture, he created other models - "Skull" (a human skull), Kwak (a duck) and Popy (a teddy bear).[9] His stay in Asia in 2011 led him to imagine the Bâ family of pandas, which are found in the cities of Singapore and Chengdu.[10]
In July 2021, an exhibition took place in Strasbourg, France.
Artistic style edit
Julien Marinetti is known for his syncretic approach that treats the bronze object as a three-dimensional painting, expressing a figurative art. Drawn then sculpted in clay each model, he uses bronze as his primary material. The lacquer enhances colors of his sculptures.[11][12] Doggy John the bulldog, Kwak the duck, Popy the teddy bear, and Bâ the panda feature in several of his works.
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- ^ Julien Marinetti - Panda family. YouTube. 13 July 2012.
- ^ "Modern, Colorful Sculptures of La Mamounia, Marrakech". Cool Hunting. 19 May 2015.
- ^ "Marrakesch: Bunte Hunde im La Mamounia". travel4news.