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Noisy Garden 8
2022
Mario Picardo
Painting
190 x 130 cm
Acrylic and polyurethane on canvas
Mario Picardo doesn’t just reproduce what he saw and consigned in his notebooks, from simple packaging to lost objects. In his studio's private, closed space, he invests all his energy in expressing the external signs of the city. They appear and mix in collages and large canvases such as Noisy Garden 8.
In his work, flashy colours cohabit with black elements on covered surfaces, stretched on frames, paper, or other media. There manifests Picardo’s intention to elevate craftsmanship to the level of art.
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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