He was born in Cuba in 1976 and lives in Miami. He is concerned with questions of the cosmos, nature and time.  Acknowleged as a master who “catches our relation to the cosmos as between the infinite flick of the brush and the instant of the photograph, combining the language of each into symbiotic accordance”.

In the series of paintings, Nada (Nothing) and Obsession, Marino uses one or other of these words, writing it with a brush in thin white paint, over and over, onto black canvas.  This obsessive repetition transforms the flat surface into space, as vast and monumental as a photograph of a galaxy.  The viewer is caught in an oscillating pulse of conceptual referal between abstract and cosmic reality; simply, with the Nada series, Marino has produced a dialectic which creates the cosmos.  In 2005 Marino completed his series, Agua en el Humo y Cielo en el Fuego (Water in the Smoke and Sky in the Fire), where he continues to paint structures, that in this instance recall the random forms of fire, clouds and waves, in which images alternate between abstraction and reality.  Abstract art to representational art, which in a specific way also proves to be conceptual art.

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