Title: Mother Nature - 02 (n.680) Dimensions: 50,00 cm x 70,00 cm x 2,50 cm Technique: Acrylic painting on shredded paper on canvas (mix media) --- Artwork n.680 Dimensions: 56,50 x 76,50 x 2,50 (cm) The measurements are: - collage: 50,00 x 70,00 cm - collage + collage passepartout + wooden frame: 56,50 x 76,50 cm; thickness 2,50 cm We are slapping Mother Nature, we are punching her. Like a woman who is subjected to violence. Like a doll. She endures, without batting an eyelid and always remains there, waiting for us. Ready to forgive. And we continue to slap her. We bruise her but we will never be able to kill her. But she is always there. Hosting us. Waiting for us. Patiently. She knows that we will never change and that the damage we are doing is to ourselves, not to her. We will cease to exist. Not her. --- It's a collage made with acrylics and lots of little pieces of paper on which you can read words and phrases scattered here and there. It is often like this when we really get close to the other person: we perceive their secret messages sometimes yes, sometimes no. This is sold framed, ready to hang with a hook on the back. The surface has small reliefs and I love to caress it, feeling it... I also use acrylic resin in surface that gives a glossy effect and protect colors against sunshine and dust. Signed and dated in back.

Alessio Mazzarulli

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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.