Italian painter, sculptor, woodcarver, designer and cabinetmaker. He was born on the 19th February, 1940 in Montecosaro, a little town in the centre of Italy. He attended the art Academy (Institute of Fine art) in Macerata with a group of very talented friends: Dante Ferretti the famous production designer, the sculptors Valeriano Trubbiani and Francesco Bonanotte, and Giorgio Cegna, Guido and Carlo Bruzzesi and Danilo Bergamo, most of them famous painters.
    This group of young artists were fascinated by the poetics of Futurism, with its exaltation of aggressive movement, feverish insomnia and the running pace, which was to lead them to different stylistic solutions. Febrile eagerness, love of danger, courage and rebellion were the essential traits distinguishing Tonino’s youth.
     In his father’s workshop he started to create his first wooden sculptures: artworks full of movement which reflected his feelings and were greatly appreciated by various dealers in Rome and Milan.
After a few years in Milan, he began to attend the Brera academy where he was able to experiment, but it was the meeting with Ivo Pannaggi, one of the most important Italian exponents of Futurism, that was to change Tonino Maurizi’s life, taking him far away from his country towards Germany and Sweden, where he encountered the ideals of the Bauhaus. The simple, geometrical and precise style of the Bauhaus and its aim of bringing art, craft and technology together, led the artist back to his origins, to plastic and neoclassical forms, to industrial and product design, to the functionality of the object and to interior decor.
    The expansive character of his work caused him to branch out into scenography, interior design and fashion. In this period, he also worked with the Dior fashion house in Paris, where the ephemeral world of fashion world came together with the rigour of geometrical form, helping him to discover his own, personal style where beauty is always yoked to function. In his sculptures, paintings, drawings and furniture we can always discern the fusion between the memory of the past and the present, the harmony between beauty and function, form and its idea.
Since the beginning of 2000, Tonino Maurizi has resumed an intense activity of exhibitions abroad (China, India, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Spain, Lebanon, USA, Germany, Japan, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina). Last solo exhibitions in Macerata at the terra- ferma art Gallery (Italy, 2014), in Civitanova Marche (Tonino Maurizi and the art of wonder, italy, 2015) ad in Beijing (798 art district, 2017).