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| A Rigor di Spot N° 42 - Mario Mariotti ItalY, 1988, 5’30” AUTHOR: Alberto Gagnarli EDITING: Sandro Nardoni PRODUCTION: Videomusic programma televisivo sulla comunicazione pubblicitaria |
Sole Mani GermanY, 1989, 3’42” BY AND WITH: Mario Mariotti EDITING: Jochen Hessel MUSIC: Andrea Mariotti DIRECTOT: Horst Schier PRODUCTION: Infafim MĂĽnchen |
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| Spot 3M Giappone, 1993-1995, 1’28” BY AND WITH: Mario Mariotti serie di 5 spot televisivi per la multinazionale 3M Calcio di mano 26”; 12” Gioco di mano 26”; 12” Mario Mariotti 12” |
Carnevale degli Animali Germania, 1991, 6’43” DIRECTOR: Horst Schier IDEATION AND IMAGES: BY Mario Mariotti CAMERA: Horst Schier EDITING: Ingrid Endres MUSIC: Andrea Mariotti PRODUCTION: Infafim MĂĽnchen |
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| Photo courtesy: Roberto Marchior, Archivio Mariotti | ||
Presented at The Screen of the Arts 2011In collaboration with Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato,
in occasion of the exhibition Mario Mariotti
A Florentine, Mario Mariotti (1936-1997) is unanimously recognized as the “painter of hands”, which he transformed into fantastic figures in photographs, books, ads and films. A magmatic author and assiduous experimenter in visual languages, Mariotti personified the popular soul and artisanal skill of Florence: the city’s corrosive irony and challenging nature, poetic identity and daily identification with art, as represented in scenic form and in actions organized for parties in town squares.
In 1987, he won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival with an ad for the multinational 3M corporation. The next year, the Videomusic TV channel dedicated an episode of the program A Rigor di Spot to him. Starting with images from the ad that won the prize at Cannes and moving along to his pictorial work on hands, the program reveals secrets of Mariotti’s “laboratory of inventions” and traces some of his spectacular projects for urban space in order to reflect on the question: are communications and advertising art? In 1988, Mariotti made the film Sole Mani, which won the International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro in 1990. The film is a fantastic concert interpreted by human figures painted on hands; the representation “suggests that there is no separation between the image proposed and the body that produces it.” (Mariotti).
In this manner, the author attributed “form” and “magic” to the manual skill required to produce those images. In 1991, he also made the film Carnival of the Animals, re-proposing his amused and amusing menagerie of animal figures painted on hands, inspired by Saint-Saëns’ music.
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