Sardinian art arrives in Rome. On Sunday 13 October at 4 pm the solo exhibition of the artist Tinamaria Marongiu entitled “Box-Es Arte Compatta” will be inaugurated, under the patronage of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Also at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Palazzo Valentini will be the Honorable Cristina Michetelli, Councilor delegated to the Budget and Heritage of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital and the Honorable Nicola Galloro.
Marongiu, an island sculptor, has made the use of waste material her most intimate artistic signature. Her “Compact Art”, an expression that translated into art in 2013, describes a specific way of creating 3D art, combining old waste materials and new materials, inorganic and organic, metals, pastes and colors, which joined together become a single and compact body, fragments of the universe and events of our existence.
Marongiu's attentive gaze falls on contemporary man, who in his relationship with nature has triggered a real "war", continuously implementing structural and climatic changes in such a pervasive way as to negatively impact the natural processes of geology. The sculptor's art takes inspiration from this conflictual relationship, becoming a careful seismograph that uses a very particular "toolbox", capable of manipulating "what-it-finds" in its continuous wandering in search of organic and inorganic materials, thrown by that human army during its state of siege towards nature.
“Compact Art” is the expression that Tinamaria uses regarding her artistic perspective: objects call her, often capture her, discovering in her the “serial accumulator” with a taut ear whose purpose is to unite, amalgamate, color five “U”s: Uniqueness, Universality, Union, Humanity, Equality, where her hand is magically guided by the universe world enclosed in that waste material, fabrics, pills, string, vials, wires, feathers, pieces of paper, stones and more. A wider space opens up before her eyes in which to immerse herself and, at the same time, immerse those who observe the result obtained, namely sculpture, an essential essence at the basis of human existence.
They form a whole, designed to “compact”, to make the found material “coexist” harmoniously with the materials shaped at the moment, mixed, in turn, with colors and resins, creating, re-proposing, as the artist herself had occasion to affirm, images of nature and fragments of events of our social life. A journey towards new universes made by a “Compact Whole” respecting, even of the smallest fragment, its importance and uniqueness. Unity and Uniqueness, characteristics considered intrinsic because every entity, starting from the human being, is united and unique.
To reach this artistic conception, Marongiu began his journey based on two basic constants: the plexiglass case renamed as “Box-Es”, with an evident reference to the child who Freudianly acts on the basis of his sole impulses, playing and building free horizons without any planning, and the pill and everything that cures, a symbol at the same time of both the comfort and the discomfort of the Anthropocene. The exhibition is supported by a catalogue with a critical text by Domenico Segna.
Maria Cristina Marongiu, with the baptismal name "Cristina", was born in Cagliari in 1961. She approached the world of art as a performer of pop music. At the end of the 1970s she moved to Rome, where she published her first 45 rpm. At the beginning of the 1980s, with the album entitled "Contremano", always using her baptismal name, musical success arrived. In 2010, with the stage name "Tinamaria" she created her first works of ARTE COMPATTA Box-Es. In 2011 she participated in the Chianciano Biennale and won the 3rd "Leonardo Prize" in the "Applied Arts" section. In October 2020, at the 43rd International Medusa Aurea "AIAM" Award, she was first place, gold medal, for sculpture. In June 2021 she exhibited at the "London Art Biennale" and received the 4th Prize ex aequo with further exhibition in London. In 2022 she exhibited at the “Biennale di Chianciano” and won the first prize in the Applied Art section. The fame and originality of her Box-Es led her to exhibit successfully in Europe and the USA.
(Online Union)
