Naturally Unnatural
Andrea Marini
Curated by Spela Zidar
Ldm Gallery, Via de’Pucci 4, Firenze
Opening: Thursday April 10th, from 5 to 8PM
From Apr 10th to May 7th 2025
Opening hours: Mon/Thu/Fri 4-7pm, Tue/Wed 10am-2pm
The LdM Gallery is pleased to present Naturalezza Innaturale – Un mondo nuovo (Naturally Unnatural – A New World) by Andrea Marini. The show is a container for Marini’s captivating synthetic but lifelike sculptures and drawings. At the same time disturbing and fascinating, his work exists in the boundary between real and imaginary. Despite their diversity, the works still manage to coexist peacefully in the gallery space, as if it were a sort of biodiversity in a non-natural ecosystem.
The artist uses ever-innovative techniques, exploring new possibilities of creation and transformation each time. His mutant creatures provoke a sense of alienation, but also of curiosity. In the viewer, this awakens a desire to understand and explore them even when they may be dangerous.
The artwork employs diverse materials to evoke nature and corporeality, depicting organic forms, growth, and transformation.
The exhibition therefore becomes a desire for a new birth, a corporeal metamorphosis, and a poetic transformation for a different vision of reality. An unnatural nature in the materials used, but created with such naturalness that it convinces the spectator to enter and listen to it, realizing the consequences that a lack of balance and respect have on our world.
About the Artist:
Born in Florence on April 19, 1948, Andrea Marini is an Italian artist whose work explores the delicate boundary between nature and artifice. Marini pursued studies in architecture, obtaining a degree in the arts. Since the late 1980s, Marini has devoted himself to his artistic research, particularly in sculpture and installation. Marini’s work is deeply rooted in an exploration of organic forms, evoking a sense of balance between simplicity and complexity, the familiar and the unknown. His career has seen him participate in numerous prestigious exhibitions in Italy and internationally, including: “Borderless” – Solo Creative Room, Pietrasanta (2024) “Nomads from the Infinite” – Spazio Cappella Marchi, Seravezza (2024) “SuperNatura” – Die Mauer Contemporary Art, Prato (2019) “Novi Mundi” – Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich (2018) “Genesis” – Lu.C.C.A. Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca (2010) “Italian Spring in Japan” – Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (2007). A critical voice in contemporary art, Marini’s works navigate the thresholds of organic and inorganic, blending the scientific with the poetic.
The LdM Gallery is a project by Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, an interdisciplinary space where academic research and artistic experimentation meet within a professional setting.