Mauro De Martino was born in Conegliano Veneto near  Venice, Italy,
in February 1963 and  since 1970 he lives  in Latina, a town in the South
of Rome.
He studied at Liceo Artistico. He lives and works in Latina.
 
 

            

           Atopia - Culture and Art Magazine

              "Gegenbewegung - Überlegungen zur Kunst von Mauro de Martino“

"Contromovimenti - Riflessioni sull'arte di Mauro de Martino”  (Jan Fusek) July 2004

 

Emanuele Alloa

" Mauro de Martino  Feritoie dell’aura" - June 2004 (italiano)

 

Vano Allsalu

"Mauro De Martino NÄGU"- KUNSTIKESKUS.EE - June 2004 (estonian)

 

Bohème Magazine Online

March 2004: Volume I, Issue 11 (english)

 

Double Dare Press Monthly magazine.

Issue #22  February 2004 (english)

 

Silvia Sfrecola

Operazione contemporanea- Latina / Velletri. Gennaio 2004 (english)

 

Silvia Sfrecola

"Contemporanea 1945 - 2003". "Mauro De Martino". Presentazione Mostra collettiva

Palazzo M -Latina 8/30. Marzo 2003.

 

Chiara Barbato

"Mauro De Martino". Gennaio 2003.

 

Marco  Bersanetti

"Linguaggi".

Presentazione Personale Biblioteca Comunale Pontinia. 16 Dicembre 2000 / 6 gennaio 2001.

 

Fabio Francione

"Da terra". Ideazione e Progetto Fabio Francione.

Presentazione Mostra collettiva Carraro Painter House Milano 7/20 Marzo 1994.

 

Viviana Gravano

Presentazione mostra personale Galleria Bianco Oro. Roma 22 Gennaio / 1 Febbraio 1992.

 

Cecilia Casorati 

"Il linguaggio de-costruttivo di Mauro De Martino"

Presentazione Personale Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati. Bologna 1/ 20 Dicembre 1990.

 

Michele Cossyro

"Mauro De Martino" Presentazione Personale Centro Di Sarro. Roma 9 /27 Gennaio1990.

 

Latina Oggi 24 gennaio 2004 p.12 - "Operazione Contemporanea"  Mauro De Martino.

 

Il Tempo 23 gennaio 2004 - p.35 - "De Martino".

 

Latina Oggi 5 gennaio 2003 p.10 - "Le ombre figurate di Mauro De Martino".

 

La Repubblica - Trovaroma nn. 140,141 "Mauro De Martino Ines Fontenla".

 

Proposte - anno IV n. 5 p.13.

 

 

 

            2007 Nov-dec La casa del critico - Velletri (ROMA) - group

            2006 June La casa del critico - Velletri (ROMA) - group

    

               2005 3/11 December -  Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea

                                  Florence Biennale -   Firenze - Italy  - Fortezza da Basso

 

                2005  September 1 - October 31   APOLLO SPAZIO CINEMA - MILANO (solo)

 

 

             2005 Artcard - Sharjah Art Museum - United Arab Emirates (group)

             2005 BIRD 2005 International Art Award at Beijing Natural Culture Center - Beijing - CHINA

 

     

            2004 Re:Connect-Creative Electric Studios - MINNEAPOLIS - MN - USA (group)

 

2004 Maggio Sermonetano  SERMONETA  (group)

 

2004 Operazione Contemporanea - LATINA (solo)

 

2004 Arsfabrica - VELLETRI (solo)

 

2003 Galleria Artealcontrario - MODENA (group)

 

2003 "Contemporanea 1945-2003 " - LATINA (group)

 

2001 Ex mattatoio Testaccio - ROMA (group)

 

2001 Spazio Zoe - ROMA (solo)

 

2000 Galleria comunale - PONTINIA (solo)

 

1999 "XI Porticato Gaetano" - GAETA

 

1994 Carraro painter's house - MILANO (group)

 

1993 Porticato Gaetano - GAETA

 

1992 "Italian Heritage and Culture Month" - NEW YORK (group)

 

1992 Galleria Bianco oro - ROMA (solo)

 

1990 Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati - BOLOGNA (solo)

 

1990 Centro Di Sarro - ROMA (solo)

 

1989 "Stato della ricerca formale a Latina e provincia" - LATINA (group)

 

1987 " III premio di Pittura " - Palazzo Della Cultura - LATINA

 

1987 Galleria Arti Contemporanee - LATINA (solo)

 

1987 "Estivia" - LATINA (group)

 

1986 Palazzo Comunale - Bassiano (solo)

 

1986 Galleria Aldo Manuzio - LATINA (solo)

 

 

 

              Double dare press

 

Bohème Magazine Online

 

Mental Contagion

 

KUNSTIKESKUS.EE

 

Quasart

 

ATOPIA  (german) (italiano)

 

Artemossa

 

Get Underground

 

Art Bureau

 

Pennysweet

 

Tangents

 

This is it magazine

 

 

 

I am generally attracted by the painting of those who do not know how to paint. I am interested not so much in the result or style of their work but in their inexperience, the fact of not having the least idea of how to go about their work.

 

Therefore, every time I start a painting I try and re-create this condition.

Without having any initial idea or project I alternate between intuitive phases and rational intervention.

In this way the elaboration of a painting is enriched by the unforeseen which makes the end result ever less predictable.

 

I do not use valuable colours, my materials are reduced to a minimum and my painting tools are often improvised in order to be forced to continually find new solutions with which to continue the work.

I like these signs to be evident, I want the mistakes and reconsiderations to show.

The wooden tablet on which I apply my colours is an integral part of the painting and it is often scratched, engraved, grazed.

Apart from increasing the expressive force of the painting, this also emphasises the corporeity of the painting, its physical presence, the material and non narrative or idealized aspect of my work.

 

My research is in part due to a process of subtraction, because I believe that it is not important to know exactly what one is creating in Art, but it is essential to know what needs to be taken away and avoided.

 

Even if figurative elements are present in my paintings, I intend to represent reality, not through images which make up its surrogate but through the painting itself.

The reality I am interested in is not isolated from the world, it is not abstraction.

If there is a visionary component, it is not found somewhere else, in idealized places, but it is part of the reality itself, captured in its totality and without any simplifying screens.

 

 Mauro De Martino