ABOUT ME
Maria Marinelli was born in Spoleto on May 23, 1992. At the age of three, she moved to Peru with her family. She returned to Italy alone at 19 to continue her artistic studies.
In 2014, she graduated in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia. Passionate about engraving, she continued her studies in Urbino, attending a one-year course in Edition and Illustration for Art Graphics, before returning to the Accademia in Perugia to complete her master’s degree in 2018.
Her life has been marked by various relocations: from Lima to Perugia, a temporary stay in Urbino, and then back to Umbria to settle on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. This constant movement reflects her desire to enrich her artistic experience.
A constant and strong theme in her research is the transformation of her personal relationship with the environment that surrounds her. Unusual, unknown, and foreign spaces gradually become an intimate presence that she feels compelled to materialize and represent. This process is expressed through the engraving, installations, artist’s books, and painting/collage.
THE VISION
Her artistic research is born from an intimate solitude, from a feeling of not belonging. Italian by nationality, but having spent her youth in Peru, she grew up adopting and internalizing a foreign culture that, over time, became her own. After returning to Italy sixteen years later, she felt like a stranger, out of place. She no longer recognized herself in Italian culture and, over time, not even in the Peruvian one, giving rise to a void, a conflict a feeling she named solitude.
As the years went by, that solitude took on the name of silence, a truce in her inner conflict. Her abstract landscapes, rich in detail and texture, create a space that offers a pause to the viewer someone who, deep down, might also find themselves without a place to belong.