04 Feb Let’s create a huge mosaic together
The Moulin Jaune creative laboratory continues to produce new works: master mosaicist Verdiano Marzi is here to create a large mosaic. If you’d like to learn this traditional technique alongside him and take part in the birth of this artwork, become his assistant for a few days.
Conditions
Dates: every day from 21 October to early November 2025; from February to April 2026.
Duration: at least 2 full days, and up to several days or weeks for the most motivated participants.
Hours: 9/10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Languages: a basic knowledge of French, Russian, or English.
Participation is free and voluntary. Meals — and possibly accommodation — on site are provided by the Moulin Jaune Association.
How to take part
Write us a letter at info@moulinjaune.com with the subject line “mosaic”, stating your last name, first name, place of residence, and the dates you are available.
Biography of Verdiano Marzi
At the age of 11, Verdiano Marzi discovered mosaic art when his schoolteacher, noticing his talent for drawing, advised his parents to enroll him in the city’s new art school — the “Institute of Mosaic Art” — in a town called Ravenna. He immediately became passionate about this artistic technique.
After the Institute of Art, he studied at the city’s School of Fine Arts and then worked for six years in the studio of Carlo and Renato Signorini, practicing restoration, the execution of monumental mosaics, and the interpretation of major contemporary painters.
In 1973, he moved to Paris and studied with Riccardo Licata at the Fine Arts mosaic workshop until 1978.
This encounter proved decisive for the rest of his career as a mosaic artist, particularly in the field of creation, because Verdiano Marzi belongs to the first generation of mosaicist-creators who do not work from a painter’s cartoon but conceive and develop their work entirely themselves.
His career has unfolded mainly in France, but he has also worked extensively abroad. His monumental works have been installed in various French cities (Lille, Denain, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Paris, etc.), as well as in Italy, Germany, Russia, and Japan. He has led restoration projects in France, Italy, Hanoi, and Cuba.
He taught for more than thirty years at the municipal workshop in Bagnolet and for twenty years at the “The Fragmented Image, Mosaic” workshop at the Louvre Museum, as well as in Moscow, Dharamshala (India), and Chicago.
His solo exhibitions have been held in Ravenna, Ferrara, and Brescia; in Dallas and Chicago; and in France, in Chartres, Paris, and Obernai.
His book Secrets d’Ateliers: Mosaic was published by Solar in 2005.