Alessio Mazzarulli - Downtown - 02 (n.753)

Downtown - 02 (n.753)
The measurements are: 70,00 cm x 48,00 cm x 1,20 cm
Unframed; ready to hang.
Acrylics dissolved in epoxy resin on OSB - Oriented Strand Board (mixed media)

This work is made on an OSB panel (Oriented Strand Board) on which I applied layers of acrylics and resin, leaving the wooden slats that compose it clearly visible.

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Downtown Series - With the Downtown series you perceive a vibrant, metropolitan energy, almost frenetic. Moving from the portraits and the intense, focused social themes of "Not your doll" to this urban landscape, I intend to explore the chaos and the lights of the city and how we position ourselves in this era on this planet.

The depicted metropolis does not seem to be only a physical space, but a visual representation of the weight of our era.

From a virgin forest that was our planet, humankind has arrived at colonizing and upending the environment, creating and shaping a habitat with its economic and social evolution.

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Born in 1974 I am self-taught.

After an initial period devoted to sculpture there was a long pause lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I resumed with the "two dimensions" for reasons of time and space, setting 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 actually existing.

For me, painting is "freezing 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 glimpses of walls also eroded by time, with moss and mushrooms that – over time – grow on the surface.
Time that passes inexorably 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 clearly perceivable by touch and to the naked eye.

In this recent period, after several years in which my works were made from bits of recycled paper forming figures, I am pushing 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 a colorful abstract picture but the further you move away the more a portrait figure emerges from the many discs painted.

Violence against women is a theme that characterizes almost all 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 that they are not their partner's dolls and cannot be mistreated or, worse, victims of violence.

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Below are the recent exhibitions:

Solo:
2017
Solo exhibition / Maison des Arts - Pescara, Italy

Group:
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 “Omaggio a Costantino Barbella” / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2020
Andy Warhol And Friends / Galleria D'arte Art Events Mazzoleni - Alzano Lombardo (BG), Italy
2019
“Liberty 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
Dialogo Tra Generazioni / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018
The Magical Shades of Time / 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
Libertà nelle arti visive / Museo Michetti - 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