Alessio Mazzarulli - Not your doll - 31 (n.697)

Artwork no. 697
Dimensions: 70.00 x 90.00 (cm)

I create paintings using acrylic colors and thousands of small pieces of recycled paper: everyday paper is transformed into art instead of 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 most recent works I have created.

In this piece a vase of flowers is depicted to symbolize nature, Mother Nature. She too is mistreated by man and endures daily violence.
Two subjects that appear fragile, apparently...

"Not your doll" - "I am not your doll" is a series where I intend to portray women's faces with features reminiscent of 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 what you want" with all that lies behind it, up to and including, unfortunately, violence.

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Born in 1974, I am self-taught.

After an initial period dedicated to sculpture there was a long stop lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I resumed with the "two dimensions" for time and space reasons, 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 real.

For me painting is about "freezing time" in that exact moment; one of my paintings is often a faded memory and therefore my works are "worn, eroded by time". Sometimes the subject of my paintings are glimpses of walls also eroded by time, with moss and mushrooms that, over time, grow on the surface.
The inexorable passage of time 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 that are clearly perceptible to the touch as well as to the naked eye.

In this recent period, after several years during which my works were created from bits of recycled paper forming figures, I am pushing myself to explore Optical Art where I use painted wooden discs arranged in lines and grids with mathematical precision that, when viewed up close, seem to form an abstract colorful picture, but the further 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 women's faces, precisely to give them a voice when they do not have the strength or courage to report the fact that they are not the dolls of their partners and cannot be mistreated or worse, victims of violence.

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Below are the 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” / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al mare, Italy
2020
Andy Warhol And Friends / Art Events Mazzoleni Gallery - 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 Lempika / Milano Art Gallery - Milan, Italy
2018
Archipelago #2 / Galeri Sveva - Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Dialogue Across Generations / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018
The Magical Shades 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, United States
2017
Freedom in Visual Arts / Museo Michetti - Francavilla Al Mare, Italy
2016
Introspective Shades / 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
Artist’s Weaves / Merlino Bottega d'Arte Gallery - Florence, Italy
2015