Joseph Marioni

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Joseph Marioni was the painter of liquid light. He was a modern painter working out of the tradition of Ryman and Rothko. For the past 40 years he has practiced the fine art of painting with acrylic paint on linen canvas over wooden support. The presentation of a single color image in his work is accomplished by layering translucent and transparent layers of liquid color over the field of linen. Marioni said he was a glaze painter like Vermeer, not Rembrandt, in that Rembrandt often paints his subjects in full light and then used his final glazes to close down the light, Vermeer, on the other hand, builds an environment of light with color – his subject is the light. Marioni continued the mandate of modernism for clarity and full disclosure of the form itself. It is the painted quality of his color that is the image of his form. In the architecture of painting, function follows light and Marioni’s subject is liquid light.

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    Joseph Marioni

    Recent Acquisition

    1 March 2024 – 31 May 2024 01.03.2024 – 31.05.2024
    National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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    Joseph Marioni

    Vom Geschmack eines Apfels, eine Sammlungspräsentation mit Gästen

    23 April 2023 – 17 September 2023 23.04.2023 – 17.09.2023
    PEAC Museum, Freiburg, Germany

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    Joseph Marioni

    Centre Pompidou acquires a work by Joseph Marioni

    15 March 2023 – 30 April 2023 15.03.2023 – 30.04.2023
    Centre Pompidou, Paris

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    Joseph Marioni

    The Phillips Collection acquires works by Joseph Marioni

    23 November 2022 – 31 December 2022 23.11.2022 – 31.12.2022
    The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, US

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    Joseph Marioni

    Dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

    8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019
    dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

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    Joseph Marioni

    NOW IS THE TIME - 25 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    24 April 2019 – 29 September 2019 24.04.2019 – 29.09.2019
    Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)

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    Joseph Marioni

    Liquid Light

    29 June 2018 – 14 October 2018 29.06.2018 – 14.10.2018
    Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (GE)

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    Joseph Marioni

    APERTURA

    31 March 2018 – 13 May 2018 31.03.2018 – 13.05.2018
    APERTURA, Albert Baronian - Yoko Uhoda Knokke, 731, Zeedijk, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

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