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 tiny recycled paper pieces: 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 far too often victims of violence, and these are the latest works produced.

"Not your doll" - "Not my doll" is a series where I intend to represent female faces with features reminiscent of the most classic dolls and the message is: "even though I look like a real doll, I am not a doll, your doll, and you can do to me whatever you want" with all that lies behind it, unfortunately, including 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 aside and dedicating myself to acrylic paintings.
I love painting abstract landscapes but in the last period I am pushing myself to paint faces of people both imaginary and real.

For me painting is to "freeze 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.
The passing 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 that are easily perceptible both to the touch and to the naked eye.

Recently, after several years in which my works were made from 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 up close seem to form an abstract colorful painting but the further you go 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 report 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 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 “Tribute 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 the 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 Hues 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
Freedom in the Visual Arts / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2016
Introspective Hues / Arte Borgo Gallery - Rome, Italy
2016
Caput Mundi Art / Palazzo Ferrajoli - Rome, Italy
2016
Art Salerno 2016 / Palazzo Fruscione - Salerno, Italy
2016
Art Rome / Flyer Art Gallery - Rome, Italy
2016
Weavings of the Artist / Merlino Bottega d'Arte Gallery - Florence, Italy
2015