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Paola Marzotto

Donna Paola Marzotto (born 25 May 1955) is an Italian photographer,[1] journalist[2] and fashion designer.[3] She is also known for her work as an environmentalist[4] and environmental activist.[5][6][7] She is the founder of Eye-V Gallery, a collective of international photographers specialized in artistic and natural photography.[8]

Donna
Paola Marzotto
Born (1955-05-25) 25 May 1955 (age 69)
NationalityItalian
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • fashion designer
  • journalist
Partner(s)Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo, Count of Arona
Children
Parents
RelativesGaetano Marzotto – grandfather Margherita Lampertico – grandmother

Early life and education

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Marzotto is the first daughter of Count Umberto Marzotto,[9] and Marta Marzotto.[10][11] She attended the Liceo Classico Ennio Quirino Visconti in Rome. She then proceeded to study anthropology and art at the John Cabot College. In 1973, her mother moved to the Spanish Steps to a house that she turned into a gathering place for international artists and intellectuals.[12][13] Here, Marzotto grew up, surrounded by the artistic milieu of the 70s, due to her mother relationship with painter Renato Guttuso.[10]

In the early 1970s, she started working as a journalist, interviewing, among others, Andy Warhol.[2] Interested in theater, television and film reportage, Marzotto participated in taking photographs on the set of Apocalypse Now (1976). From 1977 she worked for broadcasting companies such as Antenna Nord (which later became Italia 1) and RAI.[2]

Career

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Fashion

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Paola Marzotto had her first fashion appearance in 1987, reworking Tirolo's Dirndl costumes for her first show in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In 1989, she made her debut in the Milan Collections calendar with Paola Marzotto ready to wear (prêt-à-porter),[14][15][16] and in the Italian Haute Couture.[17][15]

In 1992 she was invited to go to Japan for the Nagoya Film Festival, and then she was selected by the Ministry of Industry to rework the ancient Shibori.[18] Marzotto applied this traditional Japanese technique to Western fashion styles, gaining recognition for her creativity in the fashion world. Some dresses from this collection are exhibited at the Arimatsu Museum in Nagoya.[19]

Between the 1980s and 1990s she participated in thematic exhibitions like Futurismo at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome,[20][21] L'abito oltre la moda at the Fortuny Museum in Venice,[22] with the installation The Dress of Light,[23] and The Reggi-secolo along with influential designers, stylists and architects of that period.[24]

Politics

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Marzotto entered politics as a candidate for the 1999 European Parliament[25] with the party The Democrats (Italy) by Romano Prodi, affiliated to Antonio Di Pietro's Italy of Values.[26] In 2001–2002, she became a candidate for both the Lombardy Region as well as the Municipality of Milan,[27] where she emerged as group leader of Italy of Values at the Milan Zone 1 Council (2002–2006).[27]

Photography

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In early 2020, Paola Marzotto traveled to Antarctica, where she realized the damages of climate change.[28][29] She collected a series of photographs which were displayed in the exhibition Antarctica, Melting Beauty[30][31] in the calendar of the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale[32] on architecture in 2021. Her collection was displayed at the School of Mines and Energy in Madrid in February 2022 on the occasion of the award celebration of the Nature photography contest dubbed #BetterEarthThanMars.[33]

In October 2022, Marzotto's photographic collection was displayed on the occasion of the C40, the world mayors' summit on climate change.[34] The event took place at the Gallery of the Atlantes in the Legislature Palace of Buenos Aires,[35][36] where in recognition of her work, Marzotto was designed as Guest of Honor by the City's Legislature. The exhibition was also presented at the Museo Ralli in Punta del Este, Uruguay in January 2023.[7] In August 2021 Marzotto founded Eye-V Gallery to promote and organize cultural events related to artistic-natural photography.[8] Eye-V Gallery hosts an international community of photographers and it is based in Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Milan and New York.[37] In 2022, Eye-V Gallery hosted its first exhibition, Ode to Nature in collaboration with the Pool NYC.[38][39] The exhibition explored the spiritual relationship with Mother Nature through the work of 13 photographers, all with different technological and cultural backgrounds.[38]

Personal life

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In February 1978, Marzotto met her parents' friend Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo, Count of Arona with whom she started an 18-year relationship.[40] Borromeo and Marzotto have two children; Carlo Ludovico Borromeo, designer, and Beatrice Borromeo,[41][42] journalist and TV presenter, daughter-in-law of Princess Caroline of Monaco.[43][44]


References

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  2. ^ a b c Coltelli, Giovanna (2012). "Belle Arti 131" (PDF). Belle Arti 131 (1): 127. ISSN 2281-4817.
  3. ^ "Paola Marzotto | Umberto Pizzi Photographer". www.umbertopizziphoto.com. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Así piensa y habla Paola Marzotto, la madre activista y fotógrafa de Beatrice Borromeo". HOLA (in Spanish). 15 May 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Paola Marzotto. La condesa, fotógrafa y activista ecológica nos recibe en su departamento de Recoleta". La Nación (in Spanish). 6 November 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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  10. ^ a b Pianigiani, Gaia (2 August 2016). "Marta Marzotto, Italian Designer and Socialite". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Marta Marzotto – Cronaca". il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  12. ^ Marta Marzotto: Una finestra su Piazza di Spagna: La mia vita. SugarCoEdizioni. 1990.
  13. ^ "Salute, gli occhiali di Marta Marzotto contro la fibrosi cistica". Reuters. 25 June 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Paola Marzotto: Ode alla Natura di Francesca Bianchi". www.ftnews.it. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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  16. ^ "Féerique Marta Ce Qu'elle Préfère" (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2023 – via PressReader.
  17. ^ Paola Marzotto Fall 1991/1992 Haute Couture Rome – Fashion Channel, retrieved 22 April 2023
  18. ^ "The 10th International Shibori Symposium". The 10th International Shibori Symposium: 76.
  19. ^ Shamir, Orit; Baginski, A. (2014). "Ancient Silk Textiles in the Land of Israel". In A. Luximon (ed.). Resist Dye on the Silk road: Shibori, Clamp Resist and Ikat. Proceeding of the 9th International Shibori Symposium in Hangzhou, China. pp. 25–31.
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  21. ^ "Stupefacenti futurismi moda, musica, pesia per una serata happening" (PDF). Le Repubblica. 22 April 1991.
  22. ^ Tosa, Marco (1991). L'abito Oltre La Moda (in French). Mondadori.
  23. ^ Mateo Gómez, Isabel (30 December 1996). "Un retablo toledano en el Museo de Arte de la Duke University de Durham (USA)". Archivo Español de Arte. 69 (276): 435–438. doi:10.3989/aearte.1996.v69.i276.612. hdl:10261/26791. ISSN 1988-8511.
  24. ^ Pedrini, Augusto (1930). "Il Ferro Battuto e Cesellato nell'Arte Italiana, dal Secolo Undicesimo al Secolo Diciottesimo". Books Abroad. 4 (1): 65. doi:10.2307/40046666. ISSN 0006-7431. JSTOR 40046666.
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  27. ^ a b "Dati definitivi elez. circ.ni amministrative". fc.retecivica.milano.it. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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  29. ^ ""Me enamoré de Argentina". En su piso de Recoleta, Paola Marzotto habla del viaje a la Antártida que le cambió la vida". La Nación (in Spanish). 24 October 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  30. ^ "Paola Marzotto presenta "Antarctica, Melting Beauty" en el Museo Ralli". Diario Correo de Punta del Este (in Spanish). January 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  31. ^ Marzotto, Paola (18 October 2022). "Antarctica, Melting Beauty". Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  32. ^ "Antartica, Melting Beauty". Exibart.service (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  33. ^ "Better Earth than Mars, el concurso de fotografía que te anima a salvar el planeta – E-Politécnica". www.upm.es. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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  35. ^ Rivero, Diego E. "La Legislatura inauguró la muestra "Antarctica, Melting Beauty"". www.legislatura.gob.ar. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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  37. ^ "Eye-V Gallery Trademark – Paola Marzotto – New York, NY". www.bizapedia.com. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  38. ^ a b "Ode to Nature". The Pool NYC POOL NYC. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  39. ^ "Ode to nature". 5vie.it (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  40. ^ "Bigino completo sulla storia della famiglia Borromeo, icona della nobiltà milanese". Elle (in Italian). 2 March 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  41. ^ Vogue (28 November 2017). "Princess diaries: meet the next generation of royal women".
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