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MILAN IS MEMORY. PLAQUE DISCOVERED IN MEMORY OF THE ARTIST MARINO MARINI 
The artefact placed on the wall of the house in Piazza Mirabello 2, in Brera, where he lived from 1946 to 1980 

Milan, 27 February 2023 – In Piazza Mirabello 2, a stone's throw from the Brera Academy, a plaque placed on the wall of the house where he lived and worked for over thirty years will remember the artist of Tuscan origin, Marino Marini. An internationally renowned sculptor and painter, with his professional activity and teaching at the Academy, he brought prestige to Milan by becoming its honorary citizen in 1972. 
 
Today, the day of his birth in Pistoia in 1901, the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Milan, Tommaso Sacchi, the President of the Marino Marini Foundation, Carlo Ferdinando Carnacini, and the representative of the condominiums in via Mirabello 2, David Pambianco, participated in the ceremony in memory of the artist which culminated with the unveiling of the plaque.  

Marino Marini has lived in his Milanese home from 1946, as soon as the war ended, to 1980, the year of his death. Divided between Milan and Florence, he dedicates his life to art and creativity, exhibiting his collections in the most important museums in the world. 
Precisely to testify to the privileged bond with the city of Milan, Marino Marini and his wife, Mercedes Pedrazzini, donated an important group of works signed by him in 1972 and 1986. These works, together with others acquired by the Municipality of Milan, are now exhibited on the fourth floor of the Museo del Novecento in a splendid room dedicated to the artist, set up by the architect Italo Rota in 2019 in direct dialogue with the Duomo. 

"Like many other artists from all over the world, it was in Milan that Marini found the ground to establish himself, first in Italy and then internationally, becoming one of the most iconic Italian sculptors of the last century - stated councilor Sacchi -. But Marini gave back, in terms of training and gratitude, much of what he received from our city: he was in fact the holder of the sculpture chair at the Brera Academy from 1942 to 1970, training numerous young and future sculptors. Furthermore, the portraits that l The artist donated to the Municipality of Milan depict some of the protagonists of his time, those critics, gallery owners and collectors who were the first to support him, accompanying his artistic journey to success". 

In Florence, in the former church of San Pancrazio, the city's Marino Marini Museum is located and in Pistoia, at the Palazzo del Tau, is the headquarters of the Foundation named after the artist, owner and custodian of an important collection of approximately 3000 sculptural works and pictorial. 
 
The initiative, created on the initiative of the condominium citizens of Piazza Mirabello 2, is part of the program of initiatives of Milan è Memoria, the platform created in 2017 to highlight and remember people, facts and events that testify to the history and identity of the city ​​of Milan.