COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection

FINAL WEEKEND – CLOSING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23!

Peter Marino Collection Brings World Class Artwork to Southampton Arts Center

Contemporary Art Exhibition this Summer at SAC will Include Works by Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Hirst, Haring, Kiefer, Baselitz, and others.

Includes daily 12 pm screenings of the opera Orfeo et Eurdice in the theater, commissioned by and performed in the NYC living room of Peter Marino.

PRESENTING SPONSOR:

WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT BY:

SIMONE & DAVID LEVINSON

In 1978 architect Peter Marino acquired an artwork from Andy Warhol. Since, The Peter Marino Collection has grown to hundreds of paintings and mixed media pieces representing some of the most notable artists of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries, a select number of which will be presented as part of COUNTERPOINT.

A longtime resident of Southampton, Peter Marino’s architectural work includes award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide.  Well known for integrating art within his designs, Marino has commissioned more than 300 site-specific works. COUNTERPOINT continues Marino’s cross disciplinary practice, revealing influences that have shaped the architect’s career and life-long connection to art.

COUNTERPOINT is organized into four thematic chambers designed on site by Peter Marino:

• Gardens Gallery serves as a connection to the Southampton community with a Jason Schmidt photograph of Marino’s Southampton garden, nine bronze Grand Moutons de Peter by Francois-Xavier Lalanne from the garden itself, and a series of screens showing a selection of Marino’s local architectural projects.
• Pop Art Gallery features works by Tom Sachs, Damien Hirst, Joel Morrison, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol.
• Treasury Room focuses on photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Marino’s sculptural bronze boxes.
• Modern German Art Gallery includes a selection of works by Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz.

Among the notable pieces that will be on public display for the first time are Glenn Brown’s sculpture, We Reeled in Drunkenly from Outer Space (2014), and Zhang Huan’s painting, Sea No.1 (2011), and in the Pop Art Gallery will hang a watercolor of flowers signed, “To Peter, Andy Warhol.”

“I am very glad to have this opportunity to bring a part of my art legacy to the community of Hamptonites that shares my love of this wondrous sand dune in the sea.” – Peter Marino

Gallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 12 to 6 PM 

About Peter Marino:

Peter Marino is the Principal of Peter Marino Architect PLLC, the New York-based architecture firm he founded in 1978.  He received his architecture degree from Cornell University and began his career at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, George Nelson and I.M. Pei/Cossutta & Ponte.

In 2012 Marino was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture was honored with the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017 for his work in art and architecture.  Marino was the recipient of the Museum of the City of New York’s City of Design Award and the Trophee des Arts Award from the French Institute Alliance Française also in 2017.

Cultural design projects include Fire and Water an exhibition of his sculptural bronze boxes at Gagosian Gallery in London, Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs from the Peter Marino Collection in Tokyo and Kyoto (2017), One Way: Peter Marino at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2015) and Beauty & Power an exhibition of his Renaissance and Baroque bronze collection at the Wallace Collection in London (2010). Marino, who has amassed the largest private collection of sculpture by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, designed the retrospective of their work entitled Les Lalanne, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and sits on the board for the Committee of L’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs.

Marino is Chairman of the Venetian Heritage Foundation and is currently supporting the restoration of three life-size Antonio Rizzo statues for the Ducal Palace. He has supported the restoration of Pierre Chareau’s 1925 Bureau de l’Ambassade Française, one of the museum’s famed period rooms.  He designed the exhibition space for Art and Industry: Contemporary Porcelain from Sèvres at the American Craft Museum in New York.

For additional information, please visit www.petermarinoarchitect.com    @petermarinoarch

Image: Glenn Brown; We Reeled Drunkenly from Outerspace, 2014. Photo by BFA.