Marina Rizzelli, born in Genoa the 30th of September 1960, now lives in Recco and works in her studio "Terrenergia" in Via Ageno 21. She collaborates with her daughter Debora Massone since 2014.

MARINA RIZZELLI

The Artist gets closer to the artistic experience through the glass expression. She attends a course for the production of artistic glass walls using the Tiffany technique in Milan, experimenting one of the strongest expressive elements of her artistic flair: light.

Some years later she gets closer to pottery, attending Raku pottery courses with Nicoletta Breda and freehand drawing course with Master Sergio Antola, adding the other funding element to her artistic expression: soil.

Then in 2006 thanks to the meeting of the great master Giovanni Cimatti she was able to increase the contemporary pottery technique, enriching her artistic and expressive abilities.

Light and soil are the elements of her home and her life.

Her works range from glass walls to mixed-media paintings and to pottery, in an apparent discontinuity marking an endless research.

In her works there is a spontaneous usage of every-day life's natural materials, which become original creative expression.

She is member of the “Sculturaceramica” Association.

Talking about her, marina says;

"I believe I am an artisan artist who loves working all the materials I need to create, such as wood, ceramic, glass, gypsum, cloth.

I devoted myself to glass modeling for a long time, using the tiffany technique for big glass walls and decorative items.

In the last few years I developed an unbridled desire for something new and I left my instinct take over."

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HER

Marina expresses the joy and the beauty of a creative path which was born as expression of her subconscious.  Her works are similar to dreams that take shape and speak about her through some kind of art-therapy.

EDUCATIONAL PATH:

• 1997: Artistic Glass walls in Milan;

• 1998: Creates, on demand, artistic glass walls for privates and architects.

• 2003: Painting course with Prof. Sergio Antola

• Raku pottery course with Nicoletta Breda

• 2005: creates and exhibits permanently mixed-media panels, pottery and glass walls in her laboratory at B&B Azalea.

• Watercolor course with Prof. Maurizio Immovilli

• 2006: Paper Clay course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2007: Raku Dolce course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• High temperature glaze course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2008: Raku Dolce course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2010: Paper Clay course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2011: High temperature slipware Collage with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2012: Paper Clay course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• High temperature glaze course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti
• 2013: Naked and colored Raku Dolce course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2014: Glaze overlapping course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• Porcelain single firing course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2015: Plates course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• Slipware course with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

• 2015: 4 resin corse held in  Recco by Alberto Valentini from TopResine, (MI)

• 2016: stoneware Paper Clay with Maestro Giovanni Cimatti

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2005 – May – “Una donna e le sue Mani” – Recco (GE)

• 2006 – September – “Se è un sogno...non svegliatimi” – Recco (GE)

• 2008 – February – “Le forme dell’anima” – Villa Boriglione – Grugliasco (TO)

• 2016 – March – “ConTempo(ranea)Mente” – Galleria Le Petite Fugassette – Camogli

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

• 2005 – November – “Segni”, UGC Cine Citè – Torino (TO)

• 2006 – June – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)

• 2007 – April – Collective Exhibition – Recco (GE)

• 2009 – February – “Festival Internazionale della Maiolica” – Palazzo della Borsa (GE)

• August – “Festad della Ceramica” Open Gates – Bassano

• November – Collective Exhibition – Sala Privata Nervi (GE)

• 2010 – May – Collective Exhibition – Sala B. Ferrari – Bogliasco (GE)

• Collective Exhibition – Sala Privata Nervi (GE)

• “Festival Internazionale della Maiolica” – Palazzo Ducale (GE)

• June – Collective Exhibition – Galleria San Donato (GE)

• 2012 – June – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)

• Argilla Sostenibile – Palazzo Verde (GE)

• 2013 – April – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)

• July – Collective Exhibition – Recco (GE)

• 2014 – July – Exhibition “Le Colonne” – Sala Polivalente – Recco (GE)

• September – Exhibition “Argillà”, with SculturaCeramica – Faenza

• ‘15/’16 – Oct/Feb – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)

• Permanent Exhibition at AC Hotel – Genova

• 2016 – February – Exhibition “ArteGenova” – Genova

• May – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)

• June – Collective Exhibition – Art Gallery “La Mongolfiera” – Sanremo (IM)

• July – Collective Exhibition – Camogli (GE)