About Me


Mario Zampedroni was born in Milan (Italy) in 1945. Not thirteen years old yet, in 1958 he attended the Castello Sforzesco’s High School of Art in Milan, were he followed drawing and painting courses as a pupil of the Italian Maestro Felice Mina and distinguished himself being awarded many prizes. Until the end of 1970s he took part in painting competitions and won six times. He graduated in Graphics and advertising and studied architecture at Polytechnic in Milan. He worked as designer and executive in the furnishing industry. Today devotes all his time to painting. His abstract landscape and floral paintings are in demand and collected in Italy and abroad. This website provides a gallery with the latest works and a link to the artist’s interview and a poster gallery where to purchase exlusive prints of his abstract painting. Large historical vanguards of ‘900 have portrayed the nature and then analyze it and push the limits of informal solutions. The conceptual route Mario Zampedroni is ‘exactly the opposite: he does not ever copy from the real. His works come directly from an abstract dimension where a world of pure colors and forms are developed in his paintings are naturalistic, such as rivers, forests and fields of flowers This creative journey allows him to express a form of reality ‘natural tense unknown sequences characterized by spontaneous gestural color charges of matter, whose forms never fall into the banal description of particular but synthesize unpredictable rhythmic sequences as in a concert of Richard Wagner. The subjects of his works, though very pleasant, are merely a pretext to give vent to caught her powerful gesture ‘and to considerable coloristic compositions that are the true protagonists of his art, through which he often returns to informal painting.




ARTIST INTERVIEW ARTQUOTES.NET


+1 ::: Why are you an artist Mario?

I don’t know what exactly art is, therefore I don’t know if I’m an artist. I am a painter, I paint and people say that I am an artist.

+2 ::: Could you tell us some more about your paintings?

My paintings are the materialization of my aesthetic sense and of my emotive tensions which are my creative energies.

+3 ::: Is the subject important to you, or do you simply paint to express yourself?

No, subject is not important. It is only a pretext to give vent to shapes and colors.

+4 ::: What artists have influenced you, and how?

I have learned something from all the artists of old times, especially the British artist Turner. He has been an important example of how it is possible to reach an abstract and exciting dimension beginning with a natural subject.

+5 ::: What do you do for fun (besides painting)?

I listen to music, read books, do sports, and organize dinners with friends.

+6 ::: What inspires you to paint and how do you keep motivated when things get tough in the studio?

Life in general is something very exciting and inspirations are endless. Even a difficult moment is something creative.

+7 ::: How have you handled the business side of being an artist?

As all other artists.

+8 ::: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Hopefully in good health and in my studio with a lot of canvas and colors.

+9 ::: Could you talk about your latest series of paintings and what you are trying to achieve with them?

I’m working on an expressive kind of image executed with free “gestuality” but not totally abstract. My intention is to transmit the same energies and feelings that I experience during the execution.

+10 ::: What advice would you give to an artist just starting out?

I can suggest continuing only if he is really convinced of what he is doing. This work doesn’t admit uncertainty. Uncertainty is the enemy of creativity.



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