Alessio Mazzarulli - My explanations (n.574) - I and I series

Artwork no.574
Dimensions: 85,00 x 85,00 (cm)

I create paintings using acrylic paints 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 completed.

"Not your doll" - "I am not your doll" is a series where I intend to represent the faces of women with features that recall the most classic dolls and the message is: "even if I look like a real doll, I am not a doll, your doll, and you can do whatever you want with me" together with everything that lies behind, which unfortunately leads to violence.

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Thank you.

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Born in 1974 I am self-taught.

After an initial period dedicated to sculpture there was a prolonged pause lasting almost twenty years. Since December 2014 I resumed with the "two dimensions" for reasons of time and space, leaving sculpture and dedicating myself to acrylic paintings.
I love painting abstract landscapes, but recently I have been pushing myself to also paint faces of people, both imagined and real.

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

Coming from a wonderful experience with manipulating clay, I love sculpture, the third dimension, the sense of touch, and my paintings are often characterized by reliefs well perceptible by both touch and sight.

Recently, after several years in which my works were made 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 rigor that up close seem to form a colorful abstract 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 the faces of women, precisely to give them a voice when they lack 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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Below are the recent exhibitions:

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

Group exhibitions:
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 / Galleria D'arte Art Events Mazzoleni - Alzano Lombardo (BG), Italy
2019
“The 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 Hues of Time / Aurum Arts - Pescara, Italy
2017
In stubborn and contrary directions / 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 Hues / Arte Borgo Gallery - Rome, Italy
2016
Caput Mundi Arte / Palazzo Ferrajoli - Rome, Italy
2016
Art 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