Alessio Mazzarulli - Not your doll - 27 (n.693)

Artwork n.693
Dimensions: 85,00 x 65,00 x 2,50 (cm)

I create paintings using acrylic paints and thousands of small pieces of recycled paper: everyday paper is transformed into art rather than ending up in the trash. In my latest works I have focused on the theme of women treated as objects (dolls) and too often victims of violence, and these are the latest pieces I have created.

"Not your doll" - "I am not your doll" is a series where I intend to represent the faces of women with features that evoke the most classic dolls and the message is: "even if I look like a real doll, I am not a doll, your doll, and you can do with me whatever you want" with everything that lies behind it, up to, unfortunately, violence.

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Born in 1974 I am self-taught.

After an initial period devoted to sculpture there was a long stop lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I have returned to the "two dimensions" for reasons of time and space, leaving sculpture behind and dedicating myself to acrylic paintings.
I love painting abstract landscapes but recently I have been pushing myself to paint faces of people both imaginary and actually existing.

For me painting is "freezing time" in that exact moment; a painting of mine is often a faded memory and therefore my works are "worn, eroded by time". Sometimes the subjects of my paintings are views of walls also eroded by time, with moss and mushrooms that — over time — grow on the surface.
Time that passes inexorably is the main theme of my works.

Coming from a wonderful experience with clay manipulation, I love sculpture, the third dimension, the sense of touch and my paintings are often characterized by reliefs well perceivable to the touch as well as to the naked eye.

In this recent period, after several years in which my works were made from small pieces of recycled paper forming figures, I am pushing myself to explore Optical Art where I use painted wooden discs arranged in lines and grids repeated with mathematical rigor that, viewed up close, seem to form a colorful abstract painting but the farther you go, the more a portrait emerges from the 768 painted wooden discs.

Violence against women is a theme that characterizes almost all of my works when I reproduce female faces, precisely to give them a voice when they do not have the strength or courage to report that they are not their partner's dolls and cannot be mistreated or, worse, victims of violence.

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Below are the latest exhibitions:

Solo:

2017

Solo Show / Maison des Arts - Pescara, Italy

Group exhibitions:

Naarden The Art Fair / Amsterdam - Naarden, Netherlands
2026

Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam / De Kromhouthal, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231, 1021 KP Amsterdam, Netherlands - Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025

X Edition of MumArt “Homage to Costantino Barbella” / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2020

Andy Warhol And Friends / Galleria D'arte Art Events Mazzoleni - Alzano Lombardo (BG), Italy
2019

"Freedom in Visual Arts – Second Edition" / Mumi - Museo Michetti - Francavilla Al Mare (CH), Italy
2019

Internationale Art Price - Tamara De Lempicka / Milano Art Gallery - Milan, Italy
2018

Archipelago #2 / Galeri Sveva - Stockholm, Sweden
2018

Dialogue Across Generations / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018

The Magical Hues of Time / Aurum Arts - Pescara, Italy
2017

In obstinate and contrary direction / Simultánea Spazi Arte - Florence, Italy
2017

World Wide Art Show – New York 2017 / 508/526 West 26th Street, Suite 315, New York, NY 10001 - New York, USA
2017

Freedom in Visual Arts / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2016

Introspective Hues / Arte Borgo Gallery - Rome, Italy
2016

Caput Mundi Arte / Palazzo Ferrajoli - Rome, Italy
2016

Arte Salerno 2016 / Palazzo Fruscione - Salerno, Italy
2016

Art Rome / Flyer Art Gallery - Rome, Italy
2016

Trame D'artista / Merlino Bottega d'Arte Gallery - Florence, Italy
2015