The Art of Mario Loprete
Curator Ariana Mehrzad
“Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which I want to send a message to transmit my message, is the base of my painting. The sculpture is my lover, my artistic betrayal to the painting. That voluptuous and sensual lover that gives me different emotions that touches prohibited cords…”
“In this year, I worked exclusively on my concrete sculptures. For my concrete sculptures, I used my personal clothing. Throughout some artistic processes, in which I used plaster, resin and cement, I transformed them into artwork. My memory, my DNA, my memories remain concreted inside, which transforms the person that looks at the artworks (a type of post-modern archeologist that studies my work as they were urban artifacts).
I like to think that those who look at my sculptures created in 2020 will be able to perceive the anguish, the vulnerability, the fear that each of us had felt in front of a planetary problem that was Covid...under a layer of cement there are my clothes with which I lived this nefarious period. Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii, capable of recounting man's inability to face the tragedy of broken lives and destroyed economies. In the last 3 years about 400 international magazines wrote about my work turning on the spotlight on my art project, attracting the attention of important galleries and collectors.
Links to his socials
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