The brand
Visiting Arte Marena's workshop seems to be in an art gallery, in fact here you can hardly perceive the limits between the craft made world and the artistic one.
Even the everyday objects seem to have both the signs of hands and brain and of passion and fantasy.
Consoles and clothes stand, let you think of ancient laces: everything captures your eyes.
The history
Michele Marena's artisan firm was established in 1964 in S. Andrea di Conza (AV) by Michele Marena himself. He inherited his artistic tradition by his father who was a blacksmith.
When he was only 14 he emigrated to South America where he lived for 15 years, then he spent a short period of his life in Spain where he attended to an art and craft school.
In 1964 his firm in Italy was very small but, as the demand of his goods was more and more increasing, he opened a larger and a more modern workshop to supply the demand of his customers.
Awards
Michele Marena's works were soon known beyond the limit of Irpinia. First, he was present at local and regional exhibitions, after he promoted his works in many Italian and foreign cities.
By 1978 he took part in several exhibitions in: Toronto, Frankfurt, Paris, Nice, Adelaide, Dallas, Rio De Janeiro. His works were appreciated everywhere and he received a lot of prizes. In 1984 he took part in a ECC project called Petra.
(October 1990 - European School of San Servolo (VE)
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