Livio Marzot Biography
Livio Marzot was born in 1934 in Induno Olona. In 1959 he exhibited for the first time at the Salone Annunciata. In 1968, he set up a personal room of large minimalist sculptures at the Venice Biennale, but decided to close it and refuse the invitation to the next Biennale not for ideological reasons, but for the sense of claustrophobic suffocation caused by police charges in the narrow Venetian streets and by the blackmailing pressures of the excluded, highly politicized artists. Subsequently, he moved to the United States, where he presented his conceptual work on creative processes at the California Art Institute and, at the invitation of John Baldessari, at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the seventies, he returned to Italy and collaborated with Bruno Munari on educational games, also publishing some books with Emme Edizioni and Einaudi. In 1981, he exhibited his exhibition "Un Ricercare e Cento Variations" at the Studio Grossetti gallery in Milan, followed by exhibitions at Philippe Daverio's gallery, in which Marzot's painting evolved towards the evocative rendering of sunny Mediterranean landscapes and mythical, animated by an invisible and panicky presence. Since 1991, he began to exhibit mainly pictorial works of landscapes and animals, with exhibitions at the Antonia Jannone gallery and at Jean Blanchaert. In 2009, the Mudima Foundation dedicated an anthological exhibition to Marzot with works from 1961 to the most recent.
