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'''Tom Marioni''' (21 May 1937, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American sculptor, performance and installation artist, and curator. He was a key figure in the [[conceptual art]] movement in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the 1970s. | '''Tom Marioni''' (21 May 1937, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American sculptor, performance and installation artist, and curator. He was a key figure in the [[conceptual art]] movement in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the 1970s. | ||
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After attending Cincinnati Art Academy from 1955 to 1959, Marioni moved to [[San Francisco]], where he still lives. His first museum show was in 1970 at the Oakland Museum of California. Titled ''The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art'', it was an early example of social art as a sculpture action. Over the years, Marioni was invited to repeat the work in various contexts around the world. | After attending Cincinnati Art Academy from 1955 to 1959, Marioni moved to [[San Francisco]], where he still lives. His first museum show was in 1970 at the Oakland Museum of California. Titled ''The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art'', it was an early example of social art as a sculpture action. Over the years, Marioni was invited to repeat the work in various contexts around the world. | ||
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Drawing is central to Marioni’s art, and in 1999 he had a drawing retrospective, with a catalog, at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland. In 2006 the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati presented a survey of his work and published a catalog. Marioni is the author of ''Beer, Art and Philosophy'' (2003), a memoir, also ''Writings on Art 1969-1999'', and ''Fabliaux Tom Marioni Fairy Tales''. He was editor/designer of ''VISION'' magazine published by Crown Point Press (1975-1981). Issues were titled “California,” “Eastern Europe,” “New York City,” “Word Of Mouth,” (phonograph records) and “Artist’s Photographs,” and published prints, since 1974. | Drawing is central to Marioni’s art, and in 1999 he had a drawing retrospective, with a catalog, at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland. In 2006 the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati presented a survey of his work and published a catalog. Marioni is the author of ''Beer, Art and Philosophy'' (2003), a memoir, also ''Writings on Art 1969-1999'', and ''Fabliaux Tom Marioni Fairy Tales''. He was editor/designer of ''VISION'' magazine published by Crown Point Press (1975-1981). Issues were titled “California,” “Eastern Europe,” “New York City,” “Word Of Mouth,” (phonograph records) and “Artist’s Photographs,” and published prints, since 1974. | ||
| − | Tom Marioni received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1970s. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stadtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and other museums. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, the Margarete Roeder Gallery in New York, and the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. | + | Tom Marioni received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1970s. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stadtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and other museums. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, the Margarete Roeder Gallery in New York, and the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. [http://tommarioni.com/gallery/about/ (Source)] |
| − | + | == Publications == | |
| − | * editor, ''Vision'', | + | * editor, ''Vision'', 6 numbers, Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1975-1981, 2019. Magazine. [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3579 Issue 1: California], [https://archive.org/details/visioncalifornia00unse/ IA]; [[Media:Vision_2_Eastern_Europe_1976.pdf|Issue 2: Eastern Europe]], [https://archive.org/details/visionesterneuro00unse IA]; [[Media:Vision_3_New_York_City_1976.pdf|Issue 3: New York City]], [https://archive.org/details/visionnewyorkcit00unse IA]; [[Media:Vision_6_San_Francisco_Art_and_Food_2019.pdf|Issue 6: San Francisco Art and Food]] (2019), [https://archive.org/details/visionsanfrancis00unse IA]. [https://store.crownpoint.com/search?q=vision] |
| − | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20409 Tom Marioni: Beer, Art and Philosophy (The Exhibition), 1968-2006]'', Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, 2006, 68 pp. | + | * ''[[Media:Overview Tom Marioni 1993.pdf|Overview. Tom Marioni]]'', San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1993, [8] pp. |
| − | * http://www.tommarioni.com/wp-content/images/tommarioni-book.pdf | + | * ''[[Media:Tom Marioni Zen Stories 1994.pdf|Tom Marioni. Zen Stories]]'', San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1994, [4] pp. |
| + | * ''[[Media:Tom Marioni Sculpture and Installations 1969-1997 1999.pdf|Tom Marioni: Sculpture and Installations 1969-1997]]'', San Francisco: Tom Marioni, 1999, 72 pp, [https://archive.org/details/sculptureinstall0000mari IA]. [https://store.crownpoint.com/products/tom-marioni-sculptures-and-installations-1969-1997] | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Tom Marioni Trees and Birds 1969-1999 1999.pdf|Tom Marioni: Trees and Birds, 1969-1999]]'', Oakland, CA: Mills College, 1999, 56 pp, [https://archive.org/details/tommarionitreesb0000tann IA]. [https://store.crownpoint.com/products/tom-marioni-trees-and-birds-1969-1999] | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Marioni_Tom_Writings_on_Art_1969-1999_2000.pdf|Writings on Art, 1969-1999]]'', San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2000, 84 pp, [https://archive.org/details/wtitingonarttomm00tomm IA]. [https://store.crownpoint.com/products/tom-marioni-writings-on-conceptual-art Publisher]. | ||
| + | * ''Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir'', San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2004, 223 pp. [https://store.crownpoint.com/products/beer-art-and-philosophy-a-memoir-by-tom-marioni Publisher]. | ||
| + | * ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20409 Tom Marioni: Beer, Art and Philosophy (The Exhibition), 1968-2006]'', Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, 2006, 68 pp. Exh. catalogue. | ||
| + | * ''[http://www.tommarioni.com/wp-content/images/tommarioni-book.pdf Out-of-Body Free-Hand Circles]'', San Francisco: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2007, 32 pp. Exh. catalogue; essay by Marcia Tanner. | ||
| + | * ''[[Media:Marioni Tom Fabliaux Short Comic Coarse Cynical Tales in Verse 2009.pdf|Fabliaux: Short Comic Coarse Cynical Tales in Verse: Fairy Tales]]'', San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2009, [https://archive.org/details/fabliauxtommario00tomm IA]. | ||
| − | + | == Interviews == | |
* Robin White, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/4b/View_1_1978-1979.pdf#page=74 "Tom Marioni"], ''View'' 1:5, Oakland, CA: Crown Point, Oct 1978, 16 pp. | * Robin White, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/4b/View_1_1978-1979.pdf#page=74 "Tom Marioni"], ''View'' 1:5, Oakland, CA: Crown Point, Oct 1978, 16 pp. | ||
* [http://siteworks.exeter.ac.uk/interviews/tommarioni "Tom Marioni, Interviewed by Nick Kaye, San Francisco 24 October 2012"], ''SiteWorks'', University of Exeter, 2012. | * [http://siteworks.exeter.ac.uk/interviews/tommarioni "Tom Marioni, Interviewed by Nick Kaye, San Francisco 24 October 2012"], ''SiteWorks'', University of Exeter, 2012. | ||
| + | * Terri Cohn, [http://web.archive.org/web/20171214000636/https://www.artpractical.com/column/interview-with-tom-marioni/ "Interview with Tom Marioni"], ''Art Practical'', Oct 2017. | ||
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| + | == Literature == | ||
| + | * Nick Kaye, [[Media:Kaye Nick 2013 One Time Over Another Tom Marionis Conceptual Art.pdf|"One Time Over Another. Tom Marioni’s Conceptual Art"]], ''PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art'' 35:2, MIT Press, May 2013, pp 26-38. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376129] | ||
| − | + | == Links == | |
| − | * http://tommarioni.com/ | + | * [http://tommarioni.com/ Website] |
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Latest revision as of 11:06, 15 July 2023
Tom Marioni (21 May 1937, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American sculptor, performance and installation artist, and curator. He was a key figure in the conceptual art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the 1970s.
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After attending Cincinnati Art Academy from 1955 to 1959, Marioni moved to San Francisco, where he still lives. His first museum show was in 1970 at the Oakland Museum of California. Titled The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, it was an early example of social art as a sculpture action. Over the years, Marioni was invited to repeat the work in various contexts around the world.
In 1970 Marioni founded the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), which he described at the time as “a large-scale social work of art.” Until the museum closed in 1984, he organized many groundbreaking shows, including Sound Sculpture As in 1970. MOCA has entered history as one of the first alternative art spaces. Marioni had one-person shows in several significant venues for early conceptual art, among them the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh in 1972 and Gallery Foksal in Warsaw in 1975. In 1977 he had a solo show, The Sound of Flight, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
He has done installation/performance works at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (1972), the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (1973), the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1980), and the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany (1982), among other museums. He has produced sound works for radio stations KPFA in Berkeley and WDR in Cologne, Germany. In 1996 he organized The Art Orchestra and the group performed at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco.
Marioni was included in For Eyes and Ears (1980) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, Live to Air (1982) at the Tate Gallery in London, and From Sound to Image (1985) at the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie in Germany. His work was shown in Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object (1998) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (2009) at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Drawing is central to Marioni’s art, and in 1999 he had a drawing retrospective, with a catalog, at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland. In 2006 the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati presented a survey of his work and published a catalog. Marioni is the author of Beer, Art and Philosophy (2003), a memoir, also Writings on Art 1969-1999, and Fabliaux Tom Marioni Fairy Tales. He was editor/designer of VISION magazine published by Crown Point Press (1975-1981). Issues were titled “California,” “Eastern Europe,” “New York City,” “Word Of Mouth,” (phonograph records) and “Artist’s Photographs,” and published prints, since 1974.
Tom Marioni received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1970s. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stadtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and other museums. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, the Margarete Roeder Gallery in New York, and the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. (Source)
Publications[edit]
- editor, Vision, 6 numbers, Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1975-1981, 2019. Magazine. Issue 1: California, IA; Issue 2: Eastern Europe, IA; Issue 3: New York City, IA; Issue 6: San Francisco Art and Food (2019), IA. [1]
- Overview. Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1993, [8] pp.
- Tom Marioni. Zen Stories, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1994, [4] pp.
- Tom Marioni: Sculpture and Installations 1969-1997, San Francisco: Tom Marioni, 1999, 72 pp, IA. [2]
- Tom Marioni: Trees and Birds, 1969-1999, Oakland, CA: Mills College, 1999, 56 pp, IA. [3]
- Writings on Art, 1969-1999, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2000, 84 pp, IA. Publisher.
- Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2004, 223 pp. Publisher.
- Tom Marioni: Beer, Art and Philosophy (The Exhibition), 1968-2006, Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, 2006, 68 pp. Exh. catalogue.
- Out-of-Body Free-Hand Circles, San Francisco: Gallery Paule Anglim, 2007, 32 pp. Exh. catalogue; essay by Marcia Tanner.
- Fabliaux: Short Comic Coarse Cynical Tales in Verse: Fairy Tales, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2009, IA.
Interviews[edit]
- Robin White, "Tom Marioni", View 1:5, Oakland, CA: Crown Point, Oct 1978, 16 pp.
- "Tom Marioni, Interviewed by Nick Kaye, San Francisco 24 October 2012", SiteWorks, University of Exeter, 2012.
- Terri Cohn, "Interview with Tom Marioni", Art Practical, Oct 2017.
Literature[edit]
- Nick Kaye, "One Time Over Another. Tom Marioni’s Conceptual Art", PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 35:2, MIT Press, May 2013, pp 26-38. [4]
