Room 33 - GIULIANO MAURI

BIOGRAPHY of Giuliano  Mauri

Giuliano Mauri Lodivecchio was born in 1938 and has lived in Lodi until May 29, 2009). At the end of the sixties had come into contact with the leading avant-garde art movements in Italy. The Seventies saw him as the lead in environmental performance. His videos and performances have been shown in several galleries: The nut of Padova, the towpath in Rome, Toselli, Milan and Brescia Cavellini. In the same year he presented his works to museums of modern art in Bologna, Modena and Warsaw. He also exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale (1976). In 1978, with its huge scale is present in the exhibition 'Metaphysics of Daily Life' at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna. In 1980 he built the "Windmills" completely unnecessary. The house "Bin Man" was created in 1981 (Bergamo, church of St. Augustine). The following year he built the imposing scale of Paradise (140m. long and 10 m in height). This consisted of a series of branches stuck in the ground at the ends tied with string. The same work was also presented at the Salt Market Gallery in Milan. In 1984 he began construction plant "Altars" on the banks of the Adda, Lodi. During the same year he exhibited "Zeppelin" How the Galleria in Milan and build "The City of the Sun." In 1985 he participated for the first time to 'Milanopoesia' presenting the work "Po Camp." A Redwing, near Savona, makes "The Man's house." In 1986 he made "The land of the sky" in the church of San Carpophorus in Milan. In the catalog, Vittorio Fagone describes this art as 'in kind' in the sense of the word. In 1987 he created "The Trumpets of Heaven" in Pegognaga (Mantua). The "Spore plants" are placed at Villa Barzini near Genoa in 1988, while the "songs of exile in the West" in Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna. In 1988 he built "The Wood" at the source of Tormo in the province of Lodi. The following year he was present at the exhibition "Shakti 1" in Copenhagen and at the same time took part in 'Milanopoesia' with 'Camp Po 2. " In 1991 he began the series of 'nests' (Monteciccardo, Pesaro). In 1992 he returned to Lodi with "The Field of Two hundred Pertiche" and "The Tree of One Hundred Nests". He was invited to the 37th Milan Triennale. "Altars plants" and "Creativity" are created in Borgo Valsugana (Trento). In June 1993, participates in the 'Nature in Art Symposium' in Hannover. In Chicago he was invited to 'Athenaeum "-Museum of Architecture Design IV (Italian Pavilion). in Denmark, Tranekær, builds "Wind Harp" for the 'project Tikon'. A Cottbuns, near Dresden, he created a great cathedral Plant. Pens Biennale in 1994. In 1997 he built the "House of Memory" on Laumier Sculpture, with sketches, models and drawings is at the Museum of St Louis, Missouri, 1998 USA.Nel participates in "European Art and Nature Triennial" Castle Dragsholm, Danimarca.Nel 1999 created the 'Footprints', for the Stour Valley Art Project at King's Wood, Challock in Kent. A Sgorzelec, realizes the "Observers estimate", NEYSA RIVER (2001). To Arte Sella, born in 2001 and striking the best-known work of Mauri, "The Cathedral plant", in the Val di Sella, composed of three aisles by 80 columns of twisted branches, 12 meters high and one meter in diameter at 'inside of each was planted a young hornbeam. In 2001 also makes the setting of the standard in the arena of the Sferisterio Andrico for scenes of James and directed by Daniele Abbado. In 2003, in front of the Milan Triennale exhibits Sphere "Zenobia" built for the exhibition dedicated to Calvino's novel "Invisible Cities" by Giuliano Mauri with four branches of chestnut intertwined and placed in front of the Palazzo della Triennale. In 2004, he realizes the "Walkway of jasmine lost on the river", with wood and jasmine trees. In 2006 built the "Aviary for humans" in the valley of Sighs in the Park of Monza. Concluded in July 2008 and opened the charming Soradore Bridge - San Vigilio Padernello village of Borgo San Giacomo (Brescia). As part of Territoria Luogomano # 3 opens in the "Amphitheatre of the Bisenzio Valley" at the Contemporary Art of Complex Cantagallo. "The amphitheater was one, if not the last work he created. Also in 2008 achieved the two bridges at the Castle of Padernello (BS), 50 and 30 meters respectively, seem to have an almost ghostly: the network of wood that rises from a maze passage is not magical island from the surrounding space but can transport you into the confines of nature become legendary, a dream of escape from reality and retreat into the past. For a long time on dialysis, died May 29 in Lodi in 2009.

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