Alessio Mazzarulli

I was born in 1974 and I live and work near Pescara, Italy. My first experience with art was at school, thanks to the art education professor I took a brush for the first time and it was love right away. After this scholastic approach I was able...

I was born in 1974 and I live and work near Pescara, Italy. My first experience with art was at school, thanks to the art education professor I took a brush for the first time and it was love right away. After this scholastic approach I was able to get closer to the comic by collaborating with a local magazine. I made satirical cartoons (which I have never abandoned so much that still today it happens to publish some satirical cartoons). Thanks to comics, I was able to meet a teacher who, in addition to teaching me the techniques of drawing, directed me towards sculpture starting with the processing of a block of homemade soap by my grandmother. Then I discovered the clay and the whole world that revolves around it. The first years of 2000 were years of very intense production having also created an artisan oven for baking clay. Since December 2014, after a long period of "standstill", I have resumed with the "two dimensions" leaving out the sculpture and dedicating myself to the creation of acrylic paintings, producing a lot of works. I love to paint abstract landscapes but in the last few years, I was been fascinated with portraits - whether an abstract subject or a real one. Painting is locking in the exact moment, so mine paintings are often a faded memory or something erased from time. Sometimes the objects of my paintings are glimpses of walls that are eroded by time, with moss and mushrooms that grow over time. The time that passes inexorably is the main theme of my work. Thanks to my background with sculptures, I'm familiar with the third dimension and the sense of touch. I apply these to mine paintings, which are characterized by touches that are well perceived to the naked eye. In my last works I'm using my own technique recycling office paper and day life paper such as bills, receipts, invoices, financial statements, Tax collection folders, business plans, magazines. This shredded paper became an artwork. During the compulsory quarantine due to COVID-19, having finished all the supplies of A4 paper to be recycled, I started shredding all the paper in the house considered (clean) waste. Thus the latest works have a greater consistency and materiality due to the presence of less delicate paper than the simple A4 sheet. The wrapping paper present in the products purchased and consumed in daily life, reappears in another form, avoiding landfill: containers of pasta, flour, cans of tuna, toothpaste, drugs, ice cream, advertising flyers... all papers I transform in art doing my little part to save the world.