From Peter Marino’s Collection to Southampton Village

Although works by Andy Warhol launched Peter Marino’s art collection in the late 1970s, the architect, whose clients have included Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Barney’s, Dior, Bulgari, and Giorgio Armani, was not yet in a position to buy them.

“I had no money at the time,” he told Architectural Digest’s Samuel Cochran in 2015. “I was working for Andy, and he paid me in art, almost all of which I still own. I sold one painting in 1979 to buy an apartment, and I regret it now. What I do have is very dear to me.”

Warhol is just one of the many notable artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries whose work will be on view at the Southampton Cultural Center in “Counterpoint: Selections From the Peter Marino Collection,” which will open with a reception tomorrow evening from 6 to 8. 

Mr. Marino’s architectural work includes award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide. Contemporary art has been an integral element of his architecture from the beginning of his career, and he has commissioned more than 300 site-specific works in addition to amassing a collection that ranges from carved African tribal sculptures to photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.

“Counterpoint” has been organized into four thematic chambers designed by Mr. Marino, a longtime resident of Southampton. The Gardens Gallery will reflect the architect’s connection to Southampton, with a photograph of his garden, nine of Francois-Xavier Lalanne’s iconic sheep sculptures from the garden itself, and a series of screens showing a selection of his East End architectural projects.

Works by Tim Sachs, Damien Hirst, Joel Morrison, Richard Prince, and Warhol will be hung in a Pop Art gallery. A Treasure Room will focus on photographs by Mapplethorpe and Mr. Marino’s sculptural bronze boxes, and a Modern German art gallery will include works by Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz.

Other notable pieces that will be on public display for the first time are Glenn Brown’s sculpture “We Reeled in Drunkenly From Outer Space” (2014)” and Zhang Huan’s painting “Sea No.1” (2011).

Mr. Marino received his architectural degree from Cornell University. “I went to Cornell because it had the most fine-arts-oriented architecture program, and I believed at one point that I would be an artist — that I was only tinkering with design,” he said in the Architectural Digest interview.

Since founding his eponymous architectural firm in 1978, he has been named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and honored with the Museum’s of the City of New York’s City of Design Award.

Other exhibitions from his collection have included “Memento Mori: Robert Mapplethorpe Photographs From the Peter Marino Collection” in Tokyo and Kyoto, “One Way: Peter Marino” at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, and “Beauty & Power,” an exhibition of his Renaissance and Baroque bronze collection at the Wallace Collection in London.

Mr. Marino will attend tomorrow’s opening reception and make an announcement concerning the cultural heritage of the Village of Southampton. “Counterpoint” will remain on view through Sept. 23.

The time of the opening reception was mistakenly listed as 5 p.m. in the print edition. The opening will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.