Marcel Fiorini

Abstract Composition - Original Etching by Marcel Fiorini - Late 20th Century

Late 20th Century

Marcel Fiorini was a French painter and engraver, born in Algeria of an emigrant Italian family, who suffered the innovative influences of painting promoted by Italian Fascism. In 1941, he moved to Paris, creating a "Study of painting" together with the "pieds-noirs" Louis Nallard and Maria Manton. The French academician Roger Chastel promoted him in the Parisian artistic circles when he made his first successful exhibition at the "Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger" in 1953. Since then, his graphic and pictorial art has been exhibited in numerous European exhibitions and galleries. Fiorini also exhibited at the "Biennale" of San Paolo in Brazil and was awarded by the local authorities. He experimented with avant-garde techniques in his graphic compositions. He made much use of xylography and metal engraving. One of his greatest contributions was the use of linoleum to create graphic compositions in modern painting. Fiorini in the early ‘50s specialized a lot in carving and in 1963, he gained international fame when he recorded the pages of the book Un Herbier des dunes (a poem by Jean Lescure) in the Studio Leblanc in Paris.