Today we’d like to introduce you to Fred Marinello.
Fred, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
Designer toy, art toy, custom toy, mash-up toy, neo-kaiju toy, indie toy, urban toy, outsider art.
I make toys and other collectibles produced in limited editions. The toys are made of a variety of materials; resin and polymer clay are most common, although wood, metal, and epoxy are used. I also do scratchboard illustration, photography, digital & fine art, ATC, multi-media and, printmaking. As an artist, I like dealing with personal imagery, myths, science fiction, and symbolism. I have backgrounds in graphic design, photography, art education, and lowbrow art.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Art is art, and the medium merely evokes the message.
It is a process that is personal and in the end, is all that I own. The thing created by this process is the documentation, and it will always have value to me… to the viewer, it becomes that which their experiences are able to be evoked by the documentation.
Exploring my own vision is essential. I am experimental, radical, primitive, spiritual, abstract and truth-seeking. I use ideas, feelings, fantasies and the unconscious (dreamed and imagined). I have often thought of my work as that of a Modernist, with a heavy dose of Dada, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. My main art philosophy is based on the Japanese aesthetics of Shibui: *Shibui (adjective), shibumi ) (noun), or shibusa (noun) it has been the main engine driving my visual work. I am a photography, digital, fine art, printmaker and toy artist dealing with personal imagery and symbolism.
Life…
I am an agnostic with strong atheist leanings.
I believe each and everyone is a unique individual, who I accept based on their actions and inactions
I am mostly grunted in life and attitude.
I live in the day…. “carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero,” which can be translated as “Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future).” YO – no matter where I go I have always loved the arts of the people and cultures I lived with. I enjoy the experience of things new and have been assertive and “Shoot from the Hip” I have found that I am comfortable in the position of facing a new situation, and of taking quick action, without bothering about the formalities. This is risky. This “shoot from the hip” does have the possibility of consequences in the future. But I have always believed that only I have the power to make today my best of times. This is my today, and it is the only time that I, not others, have to create my possible futures.
Have things improved for artists? What should cities do to empower artists?
It is what you make of it.
It is more difficult, more artist, fewer venues for new talent, less support of established artist, because of internet-less support for local artist. Since the deconstruction of the idea of fine arts in the mid-1960. There is no dominant art movement for audiences to understand.
Cities should give the artist more public commissions, make vacant retail spaces available to artist and support low rent studio space.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
Fred Marinello on Facebook.
#fredmarinello
fredmarinello42@gmail.com
Contact Info:
- Email: fredmarinello42@gmail.com
- Website: www.fredmarinello.net
Image Credit:
Selena Marinello
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