Alessio Mazzarulli - Not your doll - 37 (n.743)

Artwork n.743
Dimensions: 70,00 x 50,00
Acrylics on small pieces of paper on canvas (mixed media)

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

"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, I am 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 standstill lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I have resumed with the "two dimensions" for reasons of time and space, leaving sculpture aside and dedicating myself to creating acrylic paintings.
I love painting abstract landscapes but recently I have been pushing myself to paint faces of people, both imaginary and real.

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

Coming from a beautiful experience with clay manipulation, I adore sculpture, the third dimension, the sense of touch and my paintings are often characterized by reliefs perceivable both by touch and 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 repeated grids with mathematical rigor that, seen up close, seem to form an abstract colorful painting but the more you move away 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 faces of women, 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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Here are some recent exhibitions:

Solo shows:

2017

Solo exhibition / Maison des Arts - Pescara, Italy

Group shows:

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” / Michetti Museum - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2020

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

“The Freedom in the Visual Arts – Second Edition” / Mumi - Michetti Museum - Francavilla Al Mare (CH), Italy
2019

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

Archipelago #2 / Galeri Sveva - Stockholm, Sweden
2018

Dialogo Tra Generazioni / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018

Le Sfumature Magiche Del Tempo / Aurum Arts - Pescara, Italy
2017

In direzione ostinata e contraria / 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, United States
2017

La libertà nelle arti visive / Michetti Museum - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2016

Sfumature Introspettive / 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