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Marco Santi
Marco Santi in 2021
Born (1963-02-11) 11 February 1963 (age 62)
NationalityItaly
EducationAccademy of Fine Arts in Ravenna
Websitehttps://gruppomosaicisti.it

Marco Santi (born 11 February 1963) is an Italian artist, art restorer, businessman and mosaicist, director of the Gruppo Mosaicisti Ravenna since 2008.[1]

Life

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Santi was born in Ravenna. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna and currently lives and works in Ravenna.[2]

Career

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Marco Santi in 2017 - Carbo Spiritualis

He began his artistic career in 1979, working as a mosaicist and restorer at the Cooperativa Mosaicisti, a workshop of Ravenna mosaics of which he became president from 1989 to 2006.[3] In 2008, he liquidated the Cooperativa Mosaicisti,[4] reconstituting the "Gruppo Mosaicisti Ravenna," a company founded in 1948 with the aim of restoring Ravenna's cultural heritage damaged during World War II and creating contemporary mosaic works.[5][6]

Since 2008, Santi and his group have conducted numerous works in Italy and abroad, including in the United States of America (including St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York) and several European and Middle Eastern countries.[7][8]

He contributed to the birth of MUMO, the Open-Air Mosaic Museum of Tornareccio, in collaboration with Alfredo Paglione.[9]

The artist's largest work, however, is in Beirut. In fact, for over ten years, the artist has been working with his company on the St. Anthony Greek Melkite Church, where the mosaic becomes three-dimensional and the subjects of the work emerge from the walls.[10]

Marco Santi is the inventor of mosaics for the blind, thus giving the opportunity to perceive the three-dimensionality of the mosaic to all those people who have visual impairments.[11]

With Santi's Mosaicists Group he has carried out numerous restoration interventions in Ravenna (including the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe) and in several Italian cities, also teaching the art of restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, the University of Bologna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata.[12][13]

Works

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Un fine e non un mezzo. I 100 anni della Scuola di Mosaico di Ravenna". www.finestresullarte.info (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  2. ^ "Santi, il giro del mondo con l'arte: "Dalla Cooperativa Mosaicisti alle lezioni, fino in Medio Oriente"". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 2024-12-15. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  3. ^ "Marco Santi e i mosaici a Ravenna". annamariasantoro.yolasite.com. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  4. ^ "Project Manager". Gruppo Mosaicisti Ravenna (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  5. ^ "Patrimonio culturale dell'Emilia-Romagna". bbcc.regione.emilia-romagna.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  6. ^ "Gruppo Mosaicisti di Ravenna di Marco Santi". Ravenna Città del Mosaico (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  7. ^ "St. Charbel Shrine at St. Patrick's Cathedral | Studio Kraeher Architects". Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  8. ^ "Ravenna, Marco Santi, artista a tutto tondo: «I nostri mosaici anche a Beirut»". Settesere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  9. ^ "Un Mosaico per Tornareccio - Un sogno diventato realtà". unmosaicopertornareccio.it. Archived from the original on 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  10. ^ admin (2022-10-31). "Marco Santi e il Gruppo Mosaicisti". IN Magazine Romagna (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  11. ^ "Un pannello per non vedenti". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  12. ^ "A Classe analisi all'avanguardia dei mosaici". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  13. ^ "Restauri". Gruppo Mosaicisti Ravenna (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
  14. ^ "Lavori_abside reggio calabria- Giampaolo Silvestri & Cristina Bucchi Architetti1". digilander.libero.it. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  15. ^ "Giovanni Paolo II, un mosaico per lui al Santuario del Divino Amore". RomaToday (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  16. ^ Amministratore (2011-03-26). "Una sirena per Punta Marina". Ravenna24ore.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  17. ^ "Scultura e mosaico: tre mostre al Museo Nazionale di Ravenna". RavennaToday (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  18. ^ "Mosaico con raffigurazione di Nereide". Restituzioni (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  19. ^ "Nuovo look per la rotonda Andorra. Inaugurata un'opera in mosaico". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  20. ^ "Opera musiva a Fornace Zarattini sulla rotonda Andorra". Comune di Ravenna (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
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Category:Living people Category:People from Ravenna Category:1963 births Category:Italian businesspeople Category:21st-century Italian male artists Category:Italian contemporary artists