Arnaldo Marcolini Biography
Born in Ascoli Piceno in 1937, where he lives and works. Having graduated from the Art High School in Rome, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in via di Ripetta, where he met the painter and set designer Toti Scialoia and attended the studio for a short period. He then enters the atelier of the sculptor Alfio Castelli, in via Canova, and meets his highly intelligent wife Maria Teresa Dirre. Towards the mid-sixties, he met the Mara Coccia gallery, owner of the ''Arco d'Alibert'' art gallery and here he met and frequented many artists of the Roman school: Angeli, Festa, etc. At the beginning of the sixty, held exhibitions in Venice at the ''Numero'' gallery in Fiamma Vigo, meeting the art critic Umbro Apollonio (then secretary of the Venice Biennale), in Brescia, at the ''Leonessa'' art gallery and an exhibition at the ''Portici'' art gallery in Cremona, where they met Dr. Elda Fezzi (art critic) who later died prematurely. In Rome he met the critic Enrico Crispolti. AVenezia also met the gallery owner Gianni De Marco (owner of two galleries ''Traghetto 1 and Traghetto 2'') and agent of the maestro Virgilio Guidi, of whom Marcolini became a close friend. In Venice he frequented the house of the critic and architect Federico Bondi, who often came to visit him in Ascoli, in his studio and frequented his house. At the end of the sixties, through the critic Ciro Ruju, he began to frequent Naples and the Neapolitan irony painters. In 1970, he held his first exhibition at the ''S. Carlo'' in via Chiatamone, then to the ''Cajafa'' art workshop and the ''La Parente'' art gallery. By the gallerist Fiamma Vigo, he was invited to the Antifiorino in Florence, then taking his graphic works to the ''wash Art'' of Washington and the Bologna Art Fair. He meets the photographer Oliviero Toscani, of whom he is a great admirer. He meets the theater actor Alfredo Piano, who comes to visit him in the studio to see his latest production every now and then. In 1975, he began to frequent the studio of the painter and engraver Nino Anastasi and became a close friend of him and held several important exhibitions with him: in Venice, Verona, Milan and at the Bari and Bologna expo. In the nineties, he began to frequent the house of the art collector Serafino Fiocchi and became an admirer and friend and 5 works by Marcolini also became part of his important and international collection.
