Mario Balsamo - Not Specified
About the artist
Member since the very beginning
Mario Balsamo, was born October 25 th 1967 in Milan (Italy), self-taught painter, alumnus advertising designer to Milan, decides to change road, he reaches the art for authentic passion, he learns day after day, and since 1997 he intensely works for the art in professional way.
His figurative art puts in scene the theater of our most secluded identities, that only the painting can make to emerge, without fears with the simplicity of the deepest truths.
The pictures of Mario Balsamo are flash, fragments of life in unstable balance between the methodic realism of the execution and the ability to maintain the fantastic part through atmospheres and small signs, anonymous details that are camouflaged with a surrounding environment that allows the spectator to analyze the work never falling in the banality and that they turn his pictures into hidden enigmas from the innumerable interpretations here and there.
His works are almost always constituted by a principal element - always from a human figure that dominates the central part of the picture and from used details, more intentionally, to put in crisis our inalienable safeties.
1997 “Il suonatore immaginario” Novel Library , Rome, Italy
1997 ”Il colore dell’Arte” L’occhio in arte Gallery, Rome, Italy
1998 “L’immagine dentro” L’occhio in arte Gallery, Rome, Italy
1998 “Biennale Young Artist”, Padova, Italy
1999 “10 opere per...” L’occhio in arte Gallery, Rome, Italy
2000 “My Paintings” ABC Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2001 “Enzimi” Terminal Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy
2002 “Various Artists Exibition” ABC Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2002 Finalist “Premio Carlo dalla Zorza” Ponte Rosso Gallery, Milan, Italy
2003 “Premio Nazionale di pittura” Fighille di Citerna, Perugia, Italy
2003 “Forma e Colore in Movimento” President of jury Achille Bonito Oliva, Fonopoli per l’arte, Instituto Cervantes, Rome, Italy
2003 “BP Portrait Award 2003” National Portrait Gallery, London
2003 Finalist “Premio Morlotti” President of jury Ernesto Treccani, Imbersago (Lecco), Italy
2003 Winner “Premio Nazionale di Pittura Citt� di Fondi” President of jury Maurizio Calvesi, Fondi, Latina, Italy
2004 “Forma e Colore in Movimento II” Fonopoli per l’arte, Instituo Cervantes, Rome, Italy
2004 “2004 immages” Bongiovanni Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2004 Winner “Premio Nazionale di Pittura e Scultura Citt� di Novara” La Riseria, Novara, Italy
2005 “Opere miste” Bianca Maria Rizzi Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2005 “Works in journey” The Oasis beach resort Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
2005 “West wind” Sekar Nusa Resort , Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
