Angelo Marinelli was born in Monteiasi (Taranto).

After studying engineering, he moved to Rome in 2004, where he graduated in industrial design.

He inherited his passion for photography from his father and began experimenting with the camera as a self-taught photographer from an early age.

During the early 2000s, while studying, Angelo worked as a graphic designer and photographer; it was during this period that he refined his lighting and post-production techniques.

Between 2010 and 2013, he lived in Asia and began a series of journeys that expanded his artistic and cultural horizons while deepening his connection to his roots.

Angelo Marinelli’s photographic research seeks to rediscover a new identity of vision through choices that immerse themselves in light, reorganizing the portions of time that determine the formation of the image. His monolithic and silent panoramas of modern society represent a new way of managing the metaphors of vision, avoiding clichés and unnecessary baroquisms. In the poetics of abandonment and the search for emptiness as a perfect point of ascetic reflection, the artist brings to light a universe made up of minimal movements and dense architectural stratifications. These characteristics contribute to building a perfect and delicate mythopoiesis, resting on time itself as a generator of images. Angelo Marinelli’s eye is capable of rediscovering beauty through a different way of seeing reality, rekindling that taste for the enigma hidden behind everyday things. His research has something Homeric about it, combined with a subtle dose of melancholy, which transforms each photograph into a metaphysical environment frozen in memory; it is precisely this memory that self-generates in the viewer’s mind, who absorbs and makes the vision his own. The choice of colors and tones—often cold and desaturated—achieves a structural composition and a soft, sensual linguistic technique that heightens the sense of curiosity and fascination in every frame. The images thus become a private form of dialogue between the formation of all things and the retina that observes them from every possible angle. An omniscience dictated by the camera lens, which rediscovers the pleasure of choosing and surprising through beauty and a new way of seeing.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2016 “Quasi Altrove”, Italian Cultural Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, curated by Micol Di Veroli
• 2015 “Periferias Romana”, MACRo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Argentina, curated by Massimo Scaringella
• 2015 “Periferias Romana”, Italian Cultural Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Massimo Scaringella
• 2014 “Identidad del presente”, Borges Cultural Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Massimo Scaringella
• 2013 “Playground”, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Massimo Scaringella
• 2012 “The Gift”, Teatro Quirino, curated by Teresa Emanuele

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2016 “The Silk Road”, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, curated by Alessandro Riva
• 2016 “A Fish in a Marble”, Palazzo dei Papi, Viterbo, curated by Maria Elena Piferi
• 2016 “Contemporary Archetypes”, Lajatico (PI), curated by Matteo Graniti
• 2016 “In-Perfectione”, Municipal Art Gallery, Ruvo di Puglia, curated by Carmelo Cipriani
• 2015 “The Others”, Palazzo Dolfin Bollani, Venice, Italy
• 2015 “BIPA 2015”, Valid Foto Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 2015 “In Nomine Sancti”, Art and Ars Gallery, Galatina (Lecce), Italy, curated by Carmelo Cipriani and Katia Olivieri
• 2014–2015 “Bienal del fin del mundo”, Casa del Puente, Mar del Plata, Argentina, curated by Massimo Scaringella
• 2014 “Pop Art Italian Show”, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China, curated by Alessandro Riva
• 2014 “Contemporary Art for Social Good”, La Pelanda del Macro, Rome, Italy, curated by Graziano Menolascina
• 2014 “35>trentacinque” - Spazio Cerere, curated by Angelo Cricchi
• 2013 “3Small”, Laranarossa Gallery, Latina, curated by Ersilia Sarrecchia
• 2013 “Zooart 2013”, Ortona (Chieti), Italy
• 2013 “Beyond Vision”, PerPiacere, Auditorium Rome, curated by Laura Scaringella
• 2013 “Crossover”, Corderie, Tesa 113 - Venice, curated by Alessandro Riva and Ji Shaofeng
• 2012 “Zooart 2012”, Ortona (Chieti)
• 2010 “Artist in Wonderland”, Tsagarada, Greece, curated by Molecular Project

AWARDS

• 2016 Under 40, Modena Foundation, finalist
• 2015 BIPA Barcelona International Photography Award, winner