Marina Mancuso

She was born in Lecce, the city of the Baroque, where she works and lives. Her passion for art began when she was a teenager; she portrayed friends and relatives. Marina started as a student at the Istituto Statale D’Arte G. Pellegrino in Lecce and then, transferred to L’Aquila, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila. Marina had an important collaboration with the artist Fabio Mauri from 1990 to 1995 in the project IDEOLOGIA E NATURA as a performer in Rome, Milan, Florence, London, and Paris. In 1996 she opened a studio in L’Aquila and, after an excellent production of oil paintings, portraits, large murals, trompe l’oeil in interiors, she had his first personal exhibition in 2006 during the last Celestinian Forgiveness entitled “DONNA BETWEEN LAND AND SEA.” In 2008 she moved to Milan with collaborations with the Driade and Minotti brands. In spring 2009 he participated with a solo show in the Fuori Salone event “HEART ATTACK” during the Salone del Mobile with large format paintings. Marina returned to Lecce in 2012 where he continued his production and collaborated with VERNICE ARTE, an appreciated gallery in Bari. In 2014 she started a project of pop works with applications under the pseudonym MARINAIA, and after some personal and collective exhibitions she collaborated with the journalist and writer Silvia Mobili illustrating with 22 tables the last book “Le Fiabe Mobili.” In 2014 – Personal Exhibition at Hula Hoop Gallery in Rome 2015 – Reggio Emilia Fair with Neoart Galley 2016 – Fiera di Forlì with Neoart Galley 2016 – Personal Exhibition at Maryarte Gallery – Bitonto. 2016 – Exhibition – Collection – Ancona 2017 – Foggia Fair with Ugallery 2017 – Collective exhibition – Alauda project – Adelfia – 2019 – Exhition SyArt Festival in Sorrento Foundation, Villa Fiorentino – 2019 SyArt Gallery Sorrento.