Marina Apollonio. Oltre il cerchio, Edited by Marianna Gelussi, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Marsilio Arte, Venezia, 2024
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Dinamica circolare, Marina Apollonio, 1966
Marina Apollonio - Sin título 1, 2018
Apollonio was born in Trieste on 12 November 1940. She and her family moved to Venice when she was eight. In Venice she attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
In 1963, Apollonio produced her first work, Metal Reliefs with Alternate Color Sequences. She shared with other Op-Artists the interest in a depersonalized art, as opposite to Abstract Expressionism.
She used industrial material in her process, creating dynamic and fluctuating environments in the user's perception.
In 1965, she became part of the international Op art movement, meeting and exhibiting with artists such as Gruppo N Padua; Gruppo T Milan; Getulio Alviani; Dadamaino and Azimuth Milan.
In the same year she was invited to Nova Tendencija 3, an international group show held at the Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti in Zagreb, to Aktuel ’65 at the Galerie Aktuel Bern and, together with Getulio Alviani and Paolo Scheggi, the Oeuvres Plastiques et Appliquèes at Galerie Smith in Brussels.
Source : Wikipedia.