Mario Loprete says:
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, it’s 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…
During this year, I worked exclusively on my concrete sculptures .
For my Concrete Sculptures, I use my personal clothing. Throughout some artistic process, in which I use plaster, resin, and cement, I transform them into 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 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 has felt in front of a planetary problem that was Covid 19 … 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.
For my Concrete Sculptures, I use my personal clothing. Throughout some artistic process, in which I use plaster, resin, and cement, I transform them into 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 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 has felt in front of a planetary problem that was Covid 19 … 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.
About the Artist:
Mario Loprete is an Italy-based artist, who specializes in concrete-based artworks/paintings.
Links to his social media accounts:
https://it-it.facebook.com/mario.loprete.5
www.instagram.com/marioloprete/
