Mario Pitocco was born in Letino (Caserta) in 1931. He completed the first cultural development at Naples secondary school specialized in scientific studies; after the two year course of study of Engineering in Bologna, he enrolled in the Architecture faculty at Naples University and at the same time he cared much for painting: he has made exhibitions in Naples since 1954. After 1956 followed a five years period in which he matured a personal expressional language through a slow process and he had a lot of experiences of scene-painter and journalist. Since 1961 he has increased his pictorial activity, constituted by participating to international, national, common, extemporary exhibitions: he has drawn attention and won prizes several times. In 1982, in New York, during the ""CULTURAL MEETING ITALY-USA"" , he gained the ""NEW YORK PRIZE"". His pictures are the expression of a contemporary awareness, solving current doubts and problems, interior anxieties and necessities: the personages,( women expecially), are the protagonists of an inner tragedy being always universal and for this reason comprehensible for everybody. Through a painting, evident mirror of a suffered idea of life, Pitocco is always looking for an excitement, a poetic truth and just through the unexpected disposition of the things, the originality and oddness of the chromatic matchings, he gets examples of fresh, light and dreamy contemplation. In a period of extra-artistic adventures and revivals, Mario Pitocco has found a personal way of which he becomes part, peacefully, with harmony and great themes sensitization. A thin and winding graphic art envelops in a nearly invisible net the subject, and always is towering the white, appeasing and upsetting at the same time. |
