Giovanni Maranghi, born in 1955, is an internationally known Italian painter who lives and works in his birthplace near Florence, Italy. Born in to a family where art has been in the center for generations, Giovanni's father was an art merchant and his grandfather was the painter Alfonso Maranghi, his roots in the art world are strong. He began his training at a young age and he studied art at Liceo Artistico and Academy of "Belle Arti" in Florence. Already at the age of 20 Giovanni had the possibility to make a solo exhibition in Bari, Italy, and from that point on his art career took off with several solo- and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. It is in the 1990s, with an important exhibition in Milan, "La poltrona dei sogni" he becomes truly known to the major art collectors. Hereafter follows a series of exhibitions in USA where his success continues. Throughout the years Giovanni Maranghi has been exhibited in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and USA, editorials and specials in several magazines has been dedicated to his work, you find his work in museums and his art is collected worldwide. Giovanni Maranghi is a current member of the old Paiolo di Firenze Company (former Cultural Association dating back from 1512). In his works Giovanni uses a variety of techniques and display different styles of painting, such as the classical where he work with oil paint and different kinds of stucco/moldings and collage, which takes a long time to produce. Further there is the "encausto" (a form of engraving), an ancient painting technique where pigments are mixed with wax, kept liquid and are put on the surface using a brush or a spatula and then fixed with hot tools of metal, creating marbling effects and contours. Another technique which he use in many of his work is the "resina" where the base is a form of drip painting, used... (http://www.defreogallery.com/index.php/artists/giovanni-maranghi/about/) undefined

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