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  • Julien Marinetti, Bastet Cat, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Bastet Cat, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 6 x 12
  • Julien Marinetti, Bastet Cat
    Julien Marinetti
    Bastet Cat
    Painted bronze sculpture
    79 x 28 x 63
  • Julien Marinetti, Cat, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Cat, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 6 x 12
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Blue Quartz
    18 x 19 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    31 x 21 x 30
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Doggy John, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Doggy John, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    24 x 17 x 20
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    24 x 17 x 20
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    24 x 17 x 20 in
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2022
    Painted bronze sculpture
    59 x 50 x 55
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2022
    Painted bronze sculpture
    59 x 50 x 55
  • Julien Marinetti, Panda Ba, 2023
    Julien Marinetti
    Panda Ba, 2023
    Painted bronze sculpture
    15 x 10 x 13
  • Julien Marinetti, Skull
    Julien Marinetti
    Skull
    Bronze
    15 x 14 x 20 in
    38 x 35 x 50 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Skull - Black
    Julien Marinetti
    Skull - Black
    Bronze
    15 x 14 x 20 in
    38 x 35 x 50 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on Canvas
    52 x 82 in
    132.1 x 208.3 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    34 x 41 in
    86.4 x 104.1 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    40 x 53 in
    101.6 x 134.6 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    48 x 37 in
    121.9 x 94 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    40 x 53 in
    101.6 x 134.6 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    37 x 53 in
    94 x 134.6 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    81 x 104 in
    205.7 x 264.2 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    41 x 34 in
    104.1 x 86.4 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    47 x 59 in
    119.4 x 149.9 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    79 x 53 in
    200.7 x 134.6 cm
  • Julien Marinetti, Untitled, 2022
    Julien Marinetti
    Untitled, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    79 x 53 in
    200.7 x 134.6 cm
Biography

"I am neither a painter nor a sculptor, but rather both at the same time. I resort to a form of perpetual syncretism. The language of sculpture is certainly more direct than that of painting. It is also simpler to interpret. With sculpture, the artist has the advantage, the privilege, of being able to move around his work as he creates it." – Julien Marinetti

Born in 1967, Julien Marinetti grew up in Paris's Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, along the banks of the River Seine. He inherited his taste for culture and knowledge from his father, a photographer, and from his mother, who ran a school of theatre and dance. He began salvaging, recycling and tinkering with old objects, out of which he created his first sculptures.

 

When not sculpting, he spent his afternoons at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, a Paris art school specializing in live models, where he studied the nude form and French academic drawing methods. After a brief spell of just a few days at Paris' Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National School of Fine Arts), Marinetti was determined to make his own way as an artist. He continued learning and perfecting his mastery of painting and sculpting techniques, but also of engraving, ceramics and stained glass. He showed his first realistic bronze sculpture, the bulldog Doggy John, at the Galerie LC in Paris, which was promptly sold within the hour.

 

Doggy John rapidly became an icon and must-have item, and potential collectors were put on a waiting list. Marinetti created a series of collages using front pages from the International Herald Tribune newspaper, then a series of tributes - notably to Keith Harring and Andy Warhol - with a mix of collage and painting techniques. His sculpture became the preferred medium for his own painting, or what he termed "the syncretism of art."

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