CV - NOVEMBER 2009

Music video

. Charlie Winston. I love your smile, 2009, featuring famous actress Audrey Tautou. 
. Pascal Obispo. Idéaliste, 2009
. Pascal Obispo. Drapeau, 2009
. Pierre Guimard. Les beaux souvenirs ne meurent jamais,2009
. Adam Vadel. Laisse aller, 2009
. Charlie Winston. Like a Hobo, 2009
. Tunisiano. Je porte plainte. 2008
. Tunisiano. Le regard des gens. 2008
. Empyr. New day. 2008
. Soha. Programmes courts France2. 2008
. Soha. Tourbillon. 2007
. Thierry Amiel. De la haut. 2007
. Live aids. L'or de nos vies. 2007
. Pleymo. L'instinct et l'envie. 2007
. Vegastar. Maître de ma vie. 2006
. Minimum Serious. Goodbye California. 2006
. Mayane. L'homme en noir. 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stephanie. 2006
. Pleymo. Adrenaline. 2006
. Laurent Wolf. Another Brick. 2006
. Kyo. Ce soir. 2005
. Melatonine. Prozak. 2005
. Brett. Indochine cover. 2005
. Kyo. Qui je suis?. 2005
. Kyo. Contact. 2004
. Pleymo. On ne changera rien. 2004
. Pleymo. Modaddiction. 2004
. Kyo. Je saigne. 2003
. Pleymo. Divine Excuse. 2003
. Kyo. Je cours. 2003
. Kyo. Tout envoyer en l'air. 2003
. Patricia Kaas. Où sont les hommes. 2003
. Louis Chedid. Au jour le jour. 2003
. Mayane. Comme ci comme ça. 2002
. Pleymo. New Wave. 2002
. NTM. Le clash (D.A). 2000

Feature Film
In writing :
. Johnny Christ / Shooting May 2010

TV programm
In production :
Art director and concept designer :
. Anatane and the children of Okura. (Animation 26X26) France 2. 2009

Short film
. Thelma. USA. 2007 (award "best film 2008" at Paristoutcourt film festival)
. Sad day. 2004
. Pascal Obsipo. Pop. 2001 (animation)

Book
. In writing : Soleils Mauves. Release 2010
. Helmet Boy.
Release march 2007. HugoRoman/ France.

Commercial
. L'Oreal. Eau jeune (2005)
. Côte d'or. (2005)

Album cover
. Anahy. 2008
. Sinclair. Morphologique . 2006
. Pleymo. Alphabet Prison . 2006
. Pierre Guimard. Stéphanie. 2006
. Kyo. 300 lésions 2005
. Pleymo. Rock. 2004
. Kyo. Le chemin. 2003
. Mayane. Ce monde ailleurs. 2002
. Funky Collector. Serie. 2000
. Hubert Felix Thiéfaine. Best of
. Watcha. Veliki Circus
. Pleymo. Keçkispasse?


Diplôme
Ecole superieur d’Arts Graphiques. Juin 2000

PAINTING EXHIBITION IN LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 2009 - about 300 people came for the opening.

BLOG REVIEW FOR THE ART SHOW IN LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 2009

BLOG REVIEW FOR THE ART SHOW IN LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 2009

BIOGRAPHY

MARK MAGGIORI 

Mark Maggiori was born on June 16th 1977 in the town of Fontainebleau, about an hour south of Paris, in the middle of the forest.
He is an artist with many skills. He is a photographer, painter, writer, and also a film-maker with his own recognizable and unique style. He makes you plunge in his universe wich is both dream-like and realistic.
Also a musician, he was the lead singer of the rock-metal band « Pleymo » (1998-2007), with which he recorded 5 albums on the music label Epic. From that musical experience, he’ll manage to shift the energy he had on stage into a lively creativity.
Mark has bred his own style throughout the years, using his time and his environment an its colors to perfect his art.

In 1996, he decides to enter an art school, without much of a knowledge about the artistic world. Through a hard-working discipline, he manages to come up to his teachers’ expectations . It is by passion that he’s going to throw his whole body and soul in the learning of the History of art. He makes his hand on making copies of famous paintings, as part of the formation he follows.

After graduating in 2000, he begins to work on numerous music videos, and on an anime TV show called « the children of Okura ». It is after the broadcast of that TV show’s presentation file on the web, that he finds himself being the object of plagiarism reproaches and accusations made on the internet and within the french animation environment.
Fact is, he used a Miyazaki backdrop to illustrate one of his pictures. That scandal really struck Mark, and it has been a switch to him. From that day on, he decided to become his own and only reference, despite his lack of confidence, and his artistic youth.

In 2004, he starts painting with oilpaint, portraying friends, and faces his inner self and his potential that is still yet to come. Step by step, drowned in his studio’s shade, he learns to form his own eye and perception.

In 2005, he spreads his search to image and photography, through his band’s tours and the music videos he directs. That quest leads him through the U.S.A, Cuba, Russia, Japan. Back home, he transcribes his pictures in paintings in his parisian studio.

So it’s on the field that he eventually finds the themes that really fit his mind and really resemble him, such as american suburbs’/projects’ culture, drenched in the skateboard atmosphere which he practiced his whole youth. It’s like a rebirth to him, when he sets his eyes on the U.S. for real, the one he dreamed about, staring pictures and videos of it, when he was a kid. It is that universe that he sets on paper through his first novel « Helmet boy », published in 2007 by « Hugo and Cie». That novel won the prestigious Bourgogne’s litterary price the next year. That same year he also directs a short movie « Thelma », the sad story of a fat girl in the Los Angeles suburb, acruel and sensuel portrait of a bored youth, which will be rewarded by the 2008 best movie award during the « Paris Tout Court » festival.

Deeply inspired by the subcultures, and attracted to social minorities and the notion of « community », he leads his artistic stand towards themes often linked to some form of marginalization, a marginalization which he persist to sublimate , giving these unconventional peoples a rough beauty.
He has the will to show and underline the inner personality of men and women he runs into by chance during his wanderings. Through the potography, he isolates these characters out their context, and pull out of it an image fitting the emblematic characters that are scattered across his universe.
Pictures or paintings are tools that allow him to memorialize strangers and to raise them to an iconoclast stage. « I bring people home with me. They are features I meet for 10 minutes, only for the time of a picture, and whom will never leave me again ».

Mark Maggiori’s universe becomes more and more refined. He tries to make his artistic approach more and more unique, even if he agrees being eternally unsatisfied… which is maybe what drives him and makes him never to stop working.

NATIONAL NEWSPAPER - REPORT FOR MUSIC VIDEO - SEPT 2009 - about 500 000 copies

FRANCE SOIR - WEBZINE - 2009

TV report about me.

tv for Captain Samourai Flower

tv show about Captain Samourai Flower.

TV shows for a big project i directed

Press release about a huge project i create with french singer PAscal Obispo

Press release about a huge project i create with french singer PAscal Obispo

award web review for my short film THELMA

CINEMA - WEB - 2008

2008 Paris tout court festival.

 

The Paris tout court festival rewarded this year Mark Maggiori for his movie Thelma. Shot in Los Angeles’suburbs with a 35mm, the 12-minute short length film tells the story of an obese young girl and her confrontation with the young people of her neighbourhood. Cruel, sweet and sensitive at the same time, it is a rough portrait without any concession from an idle generation. Mark Maggiori, who was the past singer of Pleymo rock band, is from now on devoted body and soul to the image. Photography, painting, video, he also exhibits his photography works taken a little everywhere while the band was on tour.

Texas, Russia, Louisiana, Cuba, he describes with compassion a certain group of the impoverish population. Thelma reflects those shots, rough and magic.

The movie is in English. Must be seen.

PHOTO MAGAZINE WEB - 2008

 

Former singer of Pleymo band,  Maggiori, nowadays, goes on the other side of the camera. He just won the jury’s prize at the 2008 Paris tout court festival.

 

 

JALOUSE MAGAZINE - 2008 - 20 000 copies in France

JALOUSE MAGAZINE – 2007 – 20 000 copies in France.

KIDS THAT KILL

 

Pleymo is a music band which is into skateboarding. His leader, Mark Maggiori, 30 years old, is also the author of a first novel which is rather rock’n’roll. Context :

Los angeles’outskirts, at the end of the 80’s.

A kid gang who are not even of age, saw terror there, hangs out with the underworld and touch the bottom.

The story is told in a flashback form, by two forty-year-olds who belonged to the gang.

Be careful, Tarentino atmosphere!

 

STUDIO magazine. Big CINEMA magazine

STUDIO MAGAZINE - 2009 - about 30 000 copies in France

STUDIO MAGAZINE – about 30 000 copies in France.

CHARLIE WINSTON AND MARK MAGGIORI

 

The director Mark Maggiori knows well the big American spaces and the pictures of across the Atlantic. It is in that state of mind that he took with him the English singer Charlie Winston for its first clip “Like a Hobo”.

The video clip shows Charlie as a hobo, kind of a roving beggar, who travels non-stop with a friend. They busk and sing in villages. The clip begins like a western worthy of the biggest ones and ends with a “hat tricker” show. It is actually in movie theaters …

ROCK mag / award best MUSIC VIDEO

PHOTO magazine.about 30 000 copies in France

ALLIGATORS BETWEEN TEXAS AND LOUISIANE – 2008

About

Former singer of Pleymo metal band, Mark Maggiori dedicates his actual time to video clip productions ( NTM, Obispo, Kaas), painting and photography. Provided with a medium format Pentacon camera, he recently travelled through the south of the United States looking for people who survived from hurricane Katrina. He met there happy and broken souls, exhausted faces and street kids. Those pictures will be exhibited in the trendy area of Paris called the “Marais”, from June 10^th to September 1^st.

“Alligators Riversides” Basia Embiricos gallery, 14, Jardins St Paul street, 75004, Paris. Until September 1^st.

 

 

NUMERO - 2009 - about 50 000 copies in France.

NUMERO – 2009

CULTURE INC-

About 50 000 copies in France;

 

In February 1999, when “Numero” magazine was launched, Google was only a small browser lost among others. Since then, the development of communication tools has contributed to the exchange of ideas and to the media coverage all over the world. Especially, the one of cultures said contemporaries ( design, architecture, conceptual art …). Given media coverage but also radically overwhelmed and democratized, it is, nowadays, goods consumed in large numbers. This huge canvas allows everybody to have access to some artists and to give themselves a panoramic view of arts. For this issue, we shed lights on the work of Mark Maggiori, more known as the singer of Pleymo band. Mark Maggiori produced a large number of video clips and recently a short length film that attracted considerable attention, Thelma …

 

ROCK mag.

ELLE MAGAZINE FRANCE - 2006 - about 400 000 copies in France

IF YOU LIKE L.A

Elle magazine – 2006- 400 000 copies

A teenager, lost and charismatic, got into a gang of kids that kill.

It is hard to believe the author of this whodunit is the singer of a French rock band which has metal tendencies, called Pleymo; as he seems to know his topic from the inside. It is a gloomy and harrowing book, which marked the birth of a writer.