Italian painter, sculptor, wood-carver,
designer and cabinet-maker. He lives and works in Montecosaro Scalo, where he
was born (1940). The feverish eagerness, the love of danger, the courage, the
rebellion are essential elements that characterize the young hood of Tonino.
The father’s workshop becomes a hotbed to create his juvenile wooden
sculptures: artworks full of movement, reflecting his feelings and that will be
appreciated by Roma and Milan’s art merchants and galleries. After few years,in
Milan, his studies at Brera Academy let him do many experimentations, from the
handicraft to the art and vice-versa, with an intense and fruitful exchange.
The meeting with Ivo Pannaggi changed Tonino’s life, bringing him aloof from
his country towards Switzerland, France and Northern Europe, where he meets
Bauhaus ideals. These ideals introduce Tonino to industrial design, to
production reality, to object functionality and interior design: project,
scenography, interior design and fashion. These various and multiple juvenile
experiences bring him to present his artworks all over Italy. They are the
lifeblood of his entrepreneurial activity. In few years, he changes his
father’s cabinet-maker shop into a sort of a creative workshop-firm (company),
where he can think, draw, plan and realize his new ideas, his new vision of
home lifestyle, creating colourful furniture, objects, sculptures with
essential lines and expressive urgency full of colours.
Since the beginning of 2000, Tonino
Maurizi has resumed an intense activity of exhibitions abroad (China, India,
United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, Lebanon, Finland, USA,
Germany, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Singapore, Palestine,
France, Mexico, Thailand).
Last solo exhibitions in Macerata
(Italy 2014), in Civitanova Marche (Italy 2015, Tonino Maurizi and the art
of wonder), in 798 Art District of Beijing (China 2017), in Jerusalem
(Israel 2017, Tonino Maurizi, a thousand times Christmas), at Bab IdDeir
Art Gallery in Bethlehem (Palestine 2018), in Pesaro (Italy 2018, Tonino
Maurizi. L’ospedale: luogo di cura e cultura), Chongqing
(China 2019).
TONINO MAURIZI - EXHIBITION HISTORY
Selected Solo
Exhibitions
1956 Tonino Maurizi,
sculture, Il sestante, Milano; Italy
1957 Tonino Maurizi,
sculture, Miricae, Rome; Italy
1962 Galleria d’arte,
Trapani; Italy
1962 Pro loco, Mazara del
Vallo; Italy
1963 Pro loco, Marsala; Italy
1963 Hotel Mediterraneo, San
Vito Lo Capo; Italy
1963 Museo del Comune, Erice;
Italy
1964 Tonino
Maurizi. Antologica, Azienda Autonoma Soggiorno e Turismo, Fabriano; Italy
1980 Tonino
Maurizi. Opere recenti, Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo, Fermo; Italy
2007 Spazio Maurizi,
Civitanova Marche; Italy
2009 Spazio Maurizi,
Civitanova Marche; Italy
2014 Tonino Maurizi, Galleria
Terraferma, Macerata; Italy
2015 Tonino
Maurizi e l’arte della meraviglia, S. Francesco Multimedia Center, Civitanova
M. Alta; Italy
2017 Misericordina Gallery, D03 - 798 Art District, Beijing; China
2017 Tonino Maurizi, a thousand
times Christmas, Saint Saviour’s Monastery - Custody of the Holy Land,
Jerusalem; Israel
2018 Tonino Maurizi, a thousand
times Christmas, Bab IdDeir Art Gallery, Bethlehem; Palestine
2018 Tonino Maurizi, Mille Volte Natale. L’ospedale: luogo di cura e cultura, Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord,
Pesaro; Italy
2019 Tonino Maurizi 重庆个展, Hong Kong VA Galleries @WFC, Yuzhong
District, Chongqing; China
2020 Colour travel across time and space Online Exhibition of Miss
Yolanda & Tonino Maurizi 跨时空的色彩之旅| 中意艺术家黄超燕、莫利齐线上联展
Selected
Group Exhibitions
1957 Monaco di Baviera; Germany
1957 Premio
Scipione,
Pinacoteca civica, Macerata; Italy
1970 Pro loco, Jesi; Italy
1975 Galleria D’arte, Napoli;
Italy
1987 Spazio Maurizi, Via Ugo
Bassi, San Benedetto del Tronto; Italy
1987 Alberi
di Natale nel mondo, Arredamenti Maurizi, Montecosaro; Italy
1988 Complementi
d’arredamento, Società filarmonico-drammatica, Macerata; Italy
1991 Homage
to Ivo Pannaggi, Chiesa San Paolo, Macerata; Italy
2008 Olympic Fine Arts, Beijing International Exhibition Center, Beijing;
China
2008 13th Asian Art Biennale - Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka; Bangladesh
2010 Olympic Museum Sarajevo, Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina
2010 Municipal Hall for Exhibitions, Banja Luka; Bosnia &
Herzegovina
2012 International Flag Art Exhibition, Beirut; Lebanon
2014 Mail art; Finland
2014 Viaggio
dell’arte in Europa, Ex Pinacoteca Comunale and Sala delle Logge, Assisi;
Italy
2014 Segni x libri, International art exhibition of artistic bookmark,
Casetta della Musica, Latina; Italy
2014 UNESCO Intangible Heritage International Banner Art Exhibition,
Beirut; Lebanon
2014 Langkawi Art Biennale 2014, Langkawi Lagoon Resort, Langkawi;
Malaysia
2015 ON ART OFAA, Valencia; Spain
2015 My Country International
Art Exhibition, S. Francesco Multimedia Center,
Civitanova M. Alta; Italy
2016 Olympia Fine Arts International Exhibition & Symposium, Green
eARTh-OFAIES, Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, Panjabari, Guwahati, Assam; India
2016 150th AUB (American University of Beirut) Art Collection
2016, Abu Dhabi; United Arab Emirates
2016 G20 Hangzhou China Global
Arts Agenda 2016, Hangzhou; China
2017 AUB (American University of Beirut) Art Collection 2017, Abu Dhabi;
United Arab Emirates
2017 The 17th International
Art Exchange Exhibition”, Tokyo;
Japan
2017 Personal Structures-Open
Borders, Palazzo Mora, Venice; Italy
2017 International Art Fair Malaga 2017, Malaga; Spain
2017 7th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing; China
2017 Imagery – Italy
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Eden Art
Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing; China
2017 Spectrum Miami Art Show,
Miami; FL (USA)
2018 Le Stanze delle Meraviglie, Villa Giulia, Verbania; Italy
2018 A[Rt]dorable, VIP Fine
Arts International Art Exhibition, Jakarta and Bali; Indonesia
2018 Silk Journey to Art World
Tour Exhibition; Singapore
2018 Belt and Road (2018 - 3rd) - Qianjiang International Art Exhibition,
Hangzhou; China
2018 Salon Des
Beaux Arts 2018, Salle Le Nôtre, Carrousel du
Louvre, Paris; France
2018 1st Dafen
International Oil Painting Biennale, Red Cube Public Art Museum, Shenzhen; China
2018 ArtePadova,
29a Mostra Mercato d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Padova; Italy
2019 International
Oil Painting art exhibition, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen;
China
2019 SINERGIA,
First International Painting Exhibition and Artist Meeting, Mexicali, Tijuana and Ensenada, Baja California; Mexico
2019 Arab Art Fair, Downtown
Beirut; Lebanon
2019 Hubei Fine Arts Festival Belt and Road International Painting Art
Creation Exchange Exhibition, Dong Jining Art Museum, Xianning City; China
2019 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition,
National Art Center, Tokyo; Japan
2019 Salon Des Beaux-Arts 2019, Salle Le Nôtre, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris; France
2020 Mask Art, Creativity under Lockdown - UNESCO & MEADOWS
Artists against Covid-19 Online Exhibition
2020 The Holy Family Trip To Egypt 2020 - 5th Edition, Virtual Exhibition
2020 Art Exchange 2020:“Imagine” Artistic Dialects, Thinking
into Doing International Online Exhibition and Competition, Princess Sirivannavari
Cultivated Arts Foundation and Ministry of Culture; Thailand
2020 ExAequo, l’armonia del molteplice, Casa
Cava, Matera; Italy
2020 Forma & Materia, Villa Fermani,
Corridonia; Italy
2020 2nd Dafen
International Oil Painting Biennale, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen; China
Projects and
realizations
1962 Realization of “Il Lido del Fante” Trapani; Italy
1962 Realization of graffiti, Trapani; Italy
1978-1983-1985-2004 Projects and realizations for villas: Antognozzi,
Strappa, Cerolini, Spariglia, Soprani, Rossi; Italy
1986 Poster for the competition of Lions, Civitanova Marche; Italy
1998 Realization of the stele-totem for Villa Coloredo Museum, Recanati;
Italy
2000 Restoration of Navarra’s
chemist’s, Università degli studi di Ferrara, Ferrara; Italy
2006 Realizations for Ferretti’s Museum, Castelfidardo; Italy
2007 Permanent exhibition at Radiotherapy Department, AORMN, Pesaro;
Italy
2011 D’Annunzio
segreto, Installation,
Festival POPSOPHIA, Civitanova Marche, Italy
2011 Oltre
la forma neutra Vitra Classics, Installation and Symposium,
Civitanova Marche; Italy
2012 Il
Vangelo secondo Jobs. Apple tra tecnica e filosofia,
Installation, POPSOPHIA Festival, Civitanova Marche; Italy
2012
Permanent exhibition at the Pediatric Department ASUR 3, Civitanova Marche;
Italy
