Article: Carlo Maria Mariani's eternal cities: in a recent series of U.S. exhibitions, Mariani, a veteran of Rome's avant-garde, pays tribute to New York City, his adopted home. With their Neo-Classical appearance, his idealized figures are unexpected denizens of the contemporary urban environment.(Critical Essay)(Biography)

In his refined images featuring idealized, Neo-Classical figures, painter Carlo Maria Mariani evokes the rarefied atmosphere of antiquity and the lush perfection of Arcadia. Yet the artist has little interest in replicating the past and even less in nostalgia. Born in Rome and currently based in New York, Mariani prefers to live and work in big cities, and his paintings address issues pertinent to contemporary art and urban living. Nowhere are these concerns more evident than in his recent series of large canvases and works on paper centered on the theme of the "City," which has been the focus of several gallery exhibitions held in the past year in New York and San ...

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