Mario Ceroli (1938) - Uomo vitruviano

Mario Ceroli(1938)
Man of Leonardo
etching 90 copies
80x80 cm with frame 85x85 cm
original contemporary frame

Mario Ceroli was born in Castel Frentano (Chieti) on May 17, 1938.

He moves to Rome at the age of ten where he enrolls in the Institute of Art, by error or serendipity:

“My father and my mother wanted me to become a state employee (…) they enrolled me in the Galileo Galilei School which includes three sections: the Technical Institute, the Industrial Technical Institute and the Institute of Art. One morning my mother took me there. She was afraid of taking the elevator and we climbed up on foot. On the first floor there was the Institute of Art, my mother was tired, she paused and enrolled me in that Institute.”
— Mario Ceroli

Ceroli’s work spans sculpture, painting, drawing, creation of objects, environments and stage designs. Ceroli is a polyhedral, mercurial, versatile artist. Complex one might say, like any artist, yes, but with that extraordinary ability to blend every art. It is difficult to separate a sculpture from its painterly aspect, furnishings from sculpture and from images.

A separate biography would deserve to be written for Ceroli’s activity with theater: here too sculpture and scenery blend together to bring to life majestic stages.

His sculpture is construction rather than shaping, the forms are tangible concepts and never abstractions, it is almost always about simple, objective, concrete ideas. In the use of bronze, the resulting idea is a series of stratifications, of successive planes, which do not give the work a character of plastic uniformity, even within a harmonious and consonant work.

Always at the Institute of Art he works under the guidance of Leoncillo Leonardi, Pericle Fazzini and Ettore Colla, where he experiments with ceramics. He holds his first ceramics exhibition in 1958:

“This thing that I am a sculptor of wood is not true at all, because I have had several experiences with materials: I have used wood, I made ceramics, I used marble, I created things with ice, with water, I made things of paper, things of fabric”
— Mario Ceroli

The years 2000 see Ceroli engaged in a continual mixing of natural elements, wood and ash, wood, ash and gold leaf.

There are works from 2007 such as La nuda verità (The Nude Truth), Guerriero Frentano: human figures carved in wood and scattered with ash, to symbolize the human being merging with nature. 2007 is also the year that sees the realization of the majestic Paolo and Francesca, with the reappearance of the theme of the staircase: human figures rise on a staircase, at their feet mounds of colorful paint.

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