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Fireworks 9
2023
Mario Picardo
Painting
210 x 140 cm
Acrylic and polyurethane on canvas
From the ephemeral spectacle of fireworks, of which only the memory of childhood remains, the artist absorbed the magic to immortalize it years later on his canvases. These fragile moments of wonder first left their traces on paper before being painted. From the page of paper to the monumental format of the painting, the artist multiplies the layers of material as well as the registers of the image to let a finely studied final bouquet burst.
From his father, a construction painter, Mario Picardo inherited a taste for construction material, that he favours over the one used for fine arts, and a certain predilection for rigour. During thetime he spent in his father’s truck, a true travelling studio, he developed aliking for the optimisation and recycling of both materials and spaces.
The urban environment is a source of daily inspiration for Mario Picardo. There, he films, photographs, and collectst races of our society that he stores in a library of signs and shapes: the many drawings filling quantities of notebooks. It is from these plentiful harvests that Picardo, influenced by semiology, American painting, and 90s pop culture, paints.
Artwork of
Mario PICARDO
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