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Artist Statement for Marco Giollo
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Marco Giollo was born in Bellinzona in 1953.
In 1970 he studied at the Architect School STS of Trevano.
Realizing all the massive technical data he had to study in order to design and create, in 1971 he joined the School of Art CSIA, where he got trained from the best artists and teachers
like Nag Arnoldi, Giancarlo Piffaretti, Giuliano Togni, the brothers Clay, Rissone and many others.
In 1973 he wins the second price at the Villa Saroli Exhibition out of 150 participants.
In 1974 he wins the Bariffi price at school conclusion and one of his works is accepted and produced in the restaurant of the Congress House of Lugano.
This turned to be his entry ticket into the art scene of Switzerland, but he same year, knowing somewhere within himself that art would never fully satisfying him deeply and that he had to travel, he left Switzerland without even seeing his work finished and for 3 years continuously traveled with out money from Greece to Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Thailand, Shree Lanka and Indonesia, living with Afghani tribal warriors and Indian sadhus, traveling from the highest peeks of the Himalayas to the dryest deserts, from deep forests to deserted beaches, living naked and living out all his desires totally and fully ... but with out managing to quench that thirst that was burning continuosly within him.
In 1976 finally he meets Osho, a radical Mystic and Master and stayed with him until his death in 1991.
Changed his name to Devakrishna and started practicing all the meditations the Master had to offer.
He still practiced art and a lot of music, but the main focus was now to find out who one is, where one is coming from and where one is going from this earth.
One day Osho said to him:
"There are two types of creators in the world:
one type of creator works with objects - a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things;
the other type of creator, the mystic, creates himself, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being.
And he is the real creator, the real poet, because he makes himself into a masterpiece.
Art can be divided into two parts.
Ninety-nine percent of art is subjective art.
Only one percent is objective art.
The ninety-nine percent subjective art has no relationship with meditation.
Only one percent objective art is based on meditation.
The subjective art means you are pouring your subjectivity onto the canvas, your dreams, your imaginations, your fantasies.
It is a projection of your psychology.
The same happens in poetry, in music, in all dimensions of creativity - you are not concerned with the person who is going to see your painting, not concerned what will happen to him when he looks at it; that is not your concern at all.
Your art is simply a kind of vomiting.
It will help you, just the way vomiting helps.
It takes the nausea away, it makes you cleaner, makes you feel healthier.
But you have not considered what is going to happen to the person who is going to see your vomit.
He will become nauseous.
He may start feeling sick".
Osho
So since then Giollo's art, without pretensions, is more concerned with beauty and esthetic's, than to try something no one else did or give a message, a meaning, or pointing a finger.
Now his art is designed only to bring a little more peace, silence, joy and aesthetics to whoever looks at it.
Now his art is created from a peaceful, silent and meditative space.
"When i paint i am lost in the act of painting,
time disappears ...
I disappears ...
only the act remains ...."
says Giollo.
In 1982 he starts travelling again all over the world, from Oregon to California, from New York to Sydney, from Singapore to Hong Kong exhibiting the new styles of his work all over the world.
In 2003 he returns to Switzerland, where he works & lives now in his two atéliés in Allschwill and Magadino
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