In 1995, following the longstanding friendships from the Studies in Milan and the collective experiences of the Early Collaborations, Mariangelo co-founded, along with longtime friends, Gruppo Koiné, a new intangible space of shared projects that is still active today.
The foundation of Gruppo Koiné was inaugurated in 1995 at Spazio Palomar.
Standing as the conceptual framework and reference field for one's artistic practice, Gruppo Koiné is to him another and evolving work of art - where by the term another, it is not meant to allude to a sense of rupture, as in the expression Art of Another Kind coined by Michel Tapié in 1952, but rather to denote a difference in register.
Koiné is a Greek word meaning common language. The word is here used to designate an open space characterized by a dialogue between the autonomy of one's research and the sharing of a common spirit and projectuality.
Gruppo Koiné engages with places, whether they are natural or urban spaces, often public but not exclusively so.
Operating throughout Italy, acting gazes, through the conception of over eighty independent and site-specific art projects.
Under its conceptual framework, Mariangelo develops new series, such as the Traces series, and advances his own Poetics: among Actions, sometimes irreverent, traces, often imperceptible, and the elaboration of new Artworks.
