{"id":2116766,"date":"2026-08-27T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116766"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:40:38","slug":"inside-peter-marinos-foundation-and-its-summer-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116766","title":{"rendered":"Inside Peter Marino’s Foundation and Its Summer Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Peter Marino Art Foundation occupies the former Rogers Memorial Library, a charming historic building in Southampton, New York, that its namesake has transformed into something much stranger inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis summer, the iconoclastic architect and collector has placed portraits by Robert Nava alongside those by Y.Z. Kami; abstractions by Betty Parsons and Carla Accardi share a wall. Nearby is a magnificent room filled with Tiffany silver, while a luscious, red-painted space is filled with Viennese paintings and\u00a0objets d\u2019art<\/em>\u00a0from the 1900s. Elsewhere are bits and pieces from Marino\u2019s collection: a Rashid Johnson here, a Sanford Biggers there, a slew of Eug\u00e8ne Atget prints over yonder. There are more than 500 works at the foundation, and that\u2019s just a fraction of what Marino has acquired over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tPart of the joy of walking through Peter Marino\u2019s private museum is that there is quite literally stuff everywhere. Marino doesn\u2019t treat the building as a series of hermetically sealed exhibitions, instead art from one century flows into work from several centuries later.\u00a0\u00a0Ferdinando Tacca\u2019s 17th-century bronze,\u00a0Hercules Capturing the Cerynitian Stag<\/em>, for example, is flanked by photographs and prints by Andy Warhol. Peppering the room are carved wooden reliquaries from Central Africa, 19th-century ceramics by Th\u00e9odore Deck, and Les Lalanne\u2019s designs. The hang is constantly in flux; if Marino thinks an object belongs in another room because it will look better there, he simply moves it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Gold Gallery at the Peter Marino Foundation featuring silk screens by Andy Warhol (hanging on back wall). <\/span>Photo Jason Schmidt<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tDuring my visit, the Velvet Underground\u2019s first record played softly through the speakers, and I got the sense that I was strolling through Marino\u2019s mind. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a little bit of an amalgamation of all the things that he loves,\u201d Curtis Clarizio, Marino\u2019s chief of staff, told me as we walked through the foundation on a recent rainy morning.\u00a0
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Now 77, Marino has been collecting\u00a0since\u00a0he was 22, and his tastes have always extended well beyond the art of the moment. \u201cArt history\u00a0is\u00a0about 5,000 years and some people today are only interested in work made in the last three years,\u201d Marino told me later in the day at his palatial Southampton home. \u201cThat\u2019s not really collecting for me.\u201d\u00a0
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A collection, he explained, should equally include contemporary art, bronzes, antiquities, rare books, ceramics, arms and armor and design. A point of inspiration are European collections accumulated over generations, where hundreds of years of art coexist because they simply kept growing. On the foundation\u2019s second floor, for example, the room devoted to Viennese objets d\u2019art is next to one devote to all things Tiffany: silver, flatware, tea sets, hammered pitchers, vases, tankards, candlesticks\u2014 installed at different heights on mirrored or highly polished metal plinths.
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The Vienna Room at the Peter Marino Foundation.<\/span>Photo Jason Schmidt<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tMarino also has a penchant for seeing affinities in the work of two artists who paths likely never crossed, as is the case with his two-person exhibition of Parsons and Accardi. In the foundation\u2019s Cathedral Gallery, he has installed the two artist\u2019s paintings in a dense, salon-style hang, where large abstractions sit beside more modestly scaled ones. The juxtaposition of the gallery\u2019s double-height, vaulted timber ceiling with its warm parquet floor adds to this play in scale, giving this chapel-like space an intimate, domestic feeling.<\/p>\n

\n\tWalk through another door and the mood changes again. A wood-panel floor and black wall is the setting for a sparsely hung display dedicated to Kami\u2019s quiet, meditative dome paintings that mimic the ceilings of Byzantine churches and mosques.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Marino\u00a0has worked\u00a0with some of the world\u2019s top collectors, from Bernard Arnault to David Martinez, his taste is one that doesn\u2019t hew at all to market trends. Marino pays attention to prices, certainly, but has little interest in being told what he ought to want. \u201cI don\u2019t really care what other people think,\u201d he said. When dealers tell him an artist is \u201creally hot,\u201d he dismisses it as sales talk. \u201cThey should be selling shoes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A painting by Robert Nava at the Peter Marino Foundation.<\/span>Photo Jason Schmidt.<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThat comment made me think back to a room at the foundation devoted to Robert Nava, a market darling who had a show at Pace Gallery in New York that didn\u2019t strike a chord with me. At Marino\u2019s, I found myself surrounded by a funny menagerie of animals and mythical creatures: a lion here, a dragon there, a castle further along. The installation has the feeling of creatures moving around the room, as if in a carousel. These pictures don\u2019t take themselves too seriously, and neither does anything at the foundation.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow Marino approaches a new acquisition might have something to do with. His own test to decide on whether to purchase an expensive artwork is simple: He gives himself a week. If it keeps crossing his mind \u201cevery morning, noon and night,\u201d that\u2019s an indication he should buy it. \u201cI like to take my time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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