Victor Mazzucconi

painting 2000, exhibition n.9, PAPERS

from 12 June to 3 July 2023

Retrospective divided into 9 exhibitions:

1977-78 beginnings

1978-79 Eurydice

1980-86 The night of the soul

1987-89 Toward Awakening

1989-91 Proserpine

1992-93 Freedom

1993-98 Psyche

1999 Last pictures

1999 Cards

Painting is, for Vittorio Mazzucconi, an "inner journey" that goes from eros to transcendence, with images that present themselves with astonishing truth. His path passes through the women he loved and who, in the exhibition, take the names of mythological figures, suggesting the deepest presence of the fundamental archetypes of life.

With eyes fixed on this "super-reality", the events of contemporary art appear only as the superficial, ideological and commercial inventions of the "external" path, so far from the internal one of true art.

Exhibition n.9, painting 2000, PAPERS

Painting on paper was born on the occasion of the artist's travels, to then sometimes be pasted onto canvas upon returning to the studio. After some papers from 1990, "The dancer", "The prison" and others from 1992, the papers of the last period - "The human condition", "Why don't I listen to you?", "Sphinx", "Beyond" - which they speak of the same desperation that had animated the last paintings, moreover from the same year, to then reach a rebirth, above all with "Who am I?" which can be seen as a magical inner self-portrait