Marina Apollonio

Marina Apollonio (b. 1940, Trieste, Italy),  daughter of the theorist and art critic Umbro Apollonio and Fabiola Zannini. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where she followed Giuseppe Santomaso’s lessons, she devoted herself mainly to designing architecture for interiors.

In the 1960s, he began experimenting within the International Kinetic-Optical Movement, and in 1962, he presented his first metal reliefs with alternating colour sequences. During these years, he met Getulio Alviani. In 1965, he took part in a group exhibition of artists from the international movement Nova Tendencija 3, and his solo shows followed: in 1967 at the Galleria Il Cenobio in Padua, in 1968 at the Galleria Sincron in Bergamo and in 1970 at the Galerie Historial in Venice. From 1975, he produced works based on the orthogonal relationship of coloured, vertical and horizontal parallel lines on a black background. In 1981, she began to dedicate herself to weaving, and in 2007, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt commissioned her Spazio ad Attivazione Cinetica (1967-1971/2007), a work conceived for the international Op Art exhibition. The artist currently lives in Padua.