Alessio Mazzarulli - Not your doll - 33 (n.699)

Artwork n.699
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 latest pieces I have made.

In this work is depicted a vase of flowers symbolizing nature, Mother Nature. She herself is mistreated by man and endures daily violence. Two subjects apparently fragile, apparently...

"Not your doll" - "I am not your doll" is a series where I intend to represent female faces 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 do with me what you want" with everything that lies behind, 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 prolonged halt lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I resumed with the "two dimensions" for reasons of time and space, leaving sculpture behind and dedicating myself to acrylic paintings.
I love painting abstract landscapes but lately I am also pushing to paint faces of people both imaginary and real.

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

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

In recent times, after several years during which my works were made from pieces of recycled paper that formed figures, I am pushing to explore Optical Art where I use painted wooden discs arranged in lines and grids repeated with mathematical rigor that when viewed 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 my works when I reproduce female faces, precisely to give them a voice when they do not have the strength or courage to denounce the fact that they are not their partner's dolls and cannot be mistreated or worse, victims of violence.

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Here are the recent exhibitions:

Solo:
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
"Liberty in Visual Arts – Second Edition" / Mumi - Michetti Museum - 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 Between Generations / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018
The Magical Shades of Time / Aurum Arts - Pescara, Italy
2017
In stubborn 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
Liberty in Visual Arts / Michetti Museum - 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 Weavings / Merlino Bottega d'Arte Gallery - Florence, Italy
2015