Alessio Mazzarulli - Not your doll - 45 (n.755)

Not your doll - 45 (n.755)
The measurements are:
- collage: 50,00 x 40,00 cm
Acrylic painting on shredded paper on canvas

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 works created.

On these scraps of paper you can read words and phrases scattered here and there.
Often this happens when we truly approach another person: sometimes we perceive their secret messages, sometimes not.

"Not your doll" - "I am not your doll" is a series where I intend to represent female faces with features reminiscent of 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 with me whatever you want" with everything that is behind, up to, unfortunately, violence.

The surface features small reliefs and I like to caress it, feel it...
I also use acrylic resin on the surface, which gives a glossy effect and protects the colors from sunlight and dust.

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This work is unique and original.

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This work will be shipped unframed and unstretched as the piece will be shipped rolled. The canvas is larger than the painted dimensions because the larger surface will be useful and necessary to stretch the canvas on a frame.
It is advised to have the work stretched and mounted by a trusted professional who can also advise on a possible and appropriate frame.

The images showing the work in interior settings are for illustrative purposes only and the proportions may appear different. The actual dimensions are those indicated in the description.

Different light sources can give different colors to the photos.


For more photos and information, contact me!
Thank you.

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Born in 1974 I am self-taught.

After an initial period devoted to sculpture there was a long halt 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 "freezing time" at that exact moment; my painting 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.
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 well perceptible to touch and to the naked eye.

In this recent period, after several years in which my works were made from scraps of recycled paper forming figures, I am pushing myself to explore Optical Art where I use painted wooden discs arranged in lines and repeated grids with mathematical rigor that up close seem to form an abstract colorful painting but the farther you go the more a portrait emerges from the many 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 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:
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

“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

Dialogo Tra Generazioni / Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Italy
2018

Le Sfumature Magiche Del Tempo / 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

La 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