Italian artist Mario Loprete creates concrete sculptures & detailed paintings, creating a unique body of work.
Painting for my is the 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, it’s the base of my painting. The sculpture is my lover, my artistic betrayal to the painting. That voluptous and sensual lover that gives me different emotions, that touches prohibited cords…
Loprete, even created a series of works made from various personal effects.
“For my Concrete Sculptures I use my personal clothing. Throughout some artistical process, in which I use plaster, resin and cement, I transform them in artworks to hang. My memory, my DNA, my memories remain concreted inside, transforming the person that looks at the artworks a type of post-modern archeologist that studies my work as they were urban artefacts.”
His show “In Cemento Veritas” is currently showing at the following galleries:
- Gorelick Art Gallery, curated Amelia Zytka, at The Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, N.C., U.S.A.
- District Hall Art Gallery, curated by Katherine Gear Chamber in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
For more information on his work, find him on Instagram or Facebook.
