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 | Devakrishna Marco Giollo Via Cantonale 125 CH 6573 Magadino Ticino Switzerland Tel: 0041 (0)61 481 71 86 E mail:otoons@yahoo.com web: www.giollo.com web: www.otoons.com |
| The Landfall Art Center 2003: a group of 30 international artists doing art on the spot. We had to use 2/3 garbage materials as an ecological statement. I used the polyesters floating everywhere in the sea and rounded smooth from the waves, plastic plates and plastic caps and empty plastic bottles which are everywhere in the beaches. That was real fun! The title was more Outer Alchemy, transforming garbage into beauty. But for my experience it became 'Inner Alchemy', transforming my emotional inner garbage into silent blissful energy trough meditation ... a long way .... with the help of my beloved master Osho. Devakrishna M. Giollo | |
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| Devakrishna Marco
Giollo was born in Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland in 1953. In 1970 he studied at the Architect School STS of Trevano. Realizing all the massive technical data he had to study in order to design and create, in 1971 in Lugano he joined the School of Art CSIA, where he got trained from the best contemporary artists and teachers like Nag Arnoldi, Piergiorgio Piffaretti, Giuliano Togni, Daniele Cleis, Emilio Rissone, Gianni Realini and many others. In 1973 he wins the second price for sculpture at the Villa Saroli Exhibition out of 150 participants. In 1974 he wins the Bariffi price at school conclusion and one of his works is accepted and produced in the size of 3 x 15 meters at one of the 2 restaurants of the Congress House of Lugano. This turned to be his entry ticket into the art scene of Switzerland, but the same year, knowing somewhere within himself that art would never really fully satisfying him deeply and that he had to travel, he left Switzerland without even seeing his work finished and for 3 years continuously traveled with out money from Greece to Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Thailand, Shree Lanka and Indonesia, living with Afghani tribal warriors and Indian sadhus, traveling from the Himalayas heights to the driest deserts, from deep forests to deserted beaches, living simple and living out all his desires totally and fully ... but with out managing to quench that thirst that was burning continuously within him. In 1976 he has been found by Osho, a radical Mystic and Master and stayed with him in Puna, India until his death in 1991. Changed his name to Devakrishna and practiced all the meditations Osho had to offer. He still practiced art and a lot of music, but the main focus now was to learn how to live life totally in the 'here & now', how to clean up one's emotional garbage, how to increase awareness, how to witness one's own body mind emotions, how to feel one's own bio-energy, how to find out who one really is, where one is coming from where one is going from this earth. One day Osho said to him: "There are two types of creators in the world: one type of creator works with objects - a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things; the other type of creator, the mystic, creates himself, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet, because he makes himself into a masterpiece. Art can be divided into two parts. Ninety-nine percent of art is subjective art. Only one percent is objective art. The ninety-nine percent subjective art has no relationship with meditation. Only one percent objective art is based on meditation. The subjective art means you are pouring your subjectivity onto the canvas, your dreams, your imaginations, your fantasies. It is a projection of your psychology. The same happens in poetry, in music, in all dimensions of creativity - you are not concerned with the person who is going to see your painting, not concerned what will happen to him when he looks at it; that is not your concern at all. Your art is simply a kind of vomiting. It will help you, just the way vomiting helps. It takes the nausea away, it makes you cleaner, makes you feel healthier. But you have not considered what is going to happen to the person who is going to see your vomit. He will become nauseous. He may start feeling sick". -- Osho So since then Giollo's art, without pretensions, is more concerned with beauty and aesthetic than to try something new no one else did or give a message, a meaning, or pointing a finger. Now his art is designed only to bring a little more peace, silence, joy and aesthetics to whoever looks at it. Now his art is created from a peaceful, silent and meditative space. "For me painting is a meditative act not different of when I clean the dishes, my teeth, my flat, or take care of my garden. When I paint I am totally lost in the act of painting. It is a no mind experience. What I am left with afterwards it's a canvas that wants to go, wants to make someone or some place happy. When that happens I feel honored, thankful and grateful, I feel I gave a little something, a little beauty to the world." says Devakrishna Marco Giollo. In 1982 he also starts traveling again all over the world, from Oregon to California, from New York to Sydney, from Singapore to Hong Kong exhibiting the new styles of his work. In 2000 lives in Freiburg Germany. In 2003 he returns to Switzerland, where he works & lives now in his two ateliers in Shoenenbuchl and Magadino |
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