Alessio Mazzarulli - Around Italy - 01 (n.757)

Around Italy - 01 (n.757)
The measurements are:
- collage: 40.00 x 50.00 cm
Acrylic painting on shredded paper on canvas

I create paintings using acrylic colors and thousands of small pieces of recycled paper: everyday paper turns into art instead of ending up in the trash.

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Series "Around Italy" - With the Around Italy series I explore the hidden soul of Italy through the art of fragment.
A tactile journey through the hidden beauties of the Italian peninsula. In this series, the architecture of the villages and lesser-known views of our Bel Paese are deconstructed and rebuilt through countless fragments of recycled paper and everyday cutouts.
“Around Italy” is a series of material works that re-read Italian landscapes and architectures through meticulous collage work. Bits of paper, fragments of daily life and color overlap. Not a simple landscape, but a real contemporary mosaic that returns the energy and colors of the Bel Paese.

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In the case of works that I frame directly, the dimensions may vary slightly as I personally prepare the wooden frame, stretch the canvas and then mount it on the frame.

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Born in 1974 I am self-taught.

After an initial period dedicated 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, leaving sculpture aside and dedicating myself to acrylic paintings.

I love painting abstract landscapes but recently I have been pushing myself to paint faces of people, both imagined and actually existing.

For me painting is to “lock 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 street scenes of walls also eroded by time, with moss and mushrooms that—in time—grow on the surface.
Time that passes inexorably is the main theme of my works.

Having had a beautiful 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 as well as to the naked eye.

In this latest period, 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 repeated with mathematical rigor that seen up close seem to form a bright abstract painting, but the further you move away the more a figure portrait formed by many painted wooden discs emerges.

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 don’t 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 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” / Museo Michetti - Francavilla al Mare, Italy
2020

Andy Warhol And Friends / Galleria D'arte Art Events Mazzoleni - Alzano Lombardo (BG), Italy
2019

“La Libertà Nelle Arti Visive – Seconda Edizione” / 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