Mario Loprete is a graduate at Accademia of Belle Arti, Catanzaro (ITALY).

Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the

spasmodic research of a concept with which I want to transmit my message this is the

foundation of painting for me. The sculpture is my lover, my artistic betrayal to the painting that

voluptuous and sensual lover that inspires different emotions which strike prohibited chords.

For my concrete sculptures, I use my personal clothing. Through my artistic process in which I

use plaster, resin and cement, I transform these articles of clothing into artworks to hang. The

intended effect is that my DNA and my memory remain inside the concrete, so that the person

who looks at these sculptures is transformed into a type of postmodern archeologist, studying

my work as urban artefacts.