Angelo Marino was born in
Frattaminore. In 1991, he founded the gallery dirartecontemporanea in Caserta. In 2001, he organized a group of seminars at the Belvedere
San Leucio Caserta,
Scavare il futuro: nuovi spazi antichi, in collaboration with Elmar Zorn and City of
Caserta. In the same year, he collaborated to the installation of the exhibition
Plus Ultra at the
Royal Palace of Caserta. In 2003, he curated ''Un anfiteatro per la Pace: stendardi d'artista
, an exhibition featuring the work of Carla Accardi, Arcangelo, Angelo Bellobono, Elisabetta Benassi, Dafni & Papadatos, Gianni Dessi, Francesco Impellizzeri, Jannis Kounellis, H.H. Lim, Mafonso, Luigi Mainolfi, Fabio Mauri, Sukran Moral, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Luigi Ontani and Giacomo Zaza in Piazza Dante in Caserta. In 2005, he organised Il senso del male'', an exhibition conceived as a reflection on the tense political climate following 9/11 questioning the meaning of evil at Chiostro di S. Agostino in Caserta. In 2012, Marino converted dirartecontemporanea into a virtual gallery where artists were invited to create works specifically in a web-related context. His idea was to propose a new way to experience contemporary art, without geographical and temporal boundaries. The first exhibition was
Max Coppeta: visioni transitorie. Works 2001.2012. In 2013, the project was expanded to the
Independent Web-Pavilion of the Indigenous Tribes of the Amazon Basin, a tribute to the tribes of native tribes from the Amazon forest still unaffected by Globalisation. This was followed by the
2nd Independent Web Pavilion: Humanity, Betrayed & Traitors. In 2016, he created the
D2.0-box, an exhibition space where a large screen would enable the audience to meet and discuss online exhibitions. Marino was also a friend and mentor of many artists from the
Campania region, including, Antonio Biasiucci,
Nino Longobardi, Mafonso, Piero Chiariello, Arturo Casanova, Luigi Auriemma, Bruno Fermariello, Gloria Pastore and Mariano Filippetta. In 2016, he celebrated this connection in the exhibition
Friends Marino died on October 10, 2018. == Exhibitions ==