"The generative process that guides my work is meditative and tied often to boat trips, the connection with places, and the uncovering of their untapped narrative potential.
Coming from Benevento, in southern Italy, I have a profound bond with the sea and its dense surface, and the corporeity of the wind.
From the subjects, biographical memories emerge: marine landscapes and fishing harbours, UFO sightings at Es Vedrà, details of billiard games where I spent much of my adolescence, and the fortunate encounters with a magpie hovering around the communal garden of the house where I lived.
The monochromatic tones and composition of my works evoke the tradition of ancient painting and also reflect philosophical and literary references such as those of Conrad and Melville, who explore and confront the unknown in vast spaces like the sea, where I symbolically venture by inhabiting the canvases with a boat and a sense of nomadism.
The images explore the perception of spaces and the attempt to understand reality in its temporal and spatial complexity. Every detail results from an intention rooted in the idealization of forms within memory and nostalgia.
For me, beauty arises from the encounter with the other, from reflection on the finiteness of the human condition, and from the abandonment of a domestic perspective that we are used to."
Marco Pio Mucci
Education
2009-2014
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
2014-2017
Visual Culture BFA Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
Residencies
2017
Fondazione Zimei
2018
Box art, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Cosenza
2019
IIC – Italian Cultural Institute, Paris
Selected solo exhibitions
2016
“Maschile Romantico”, Armada, Milan
2017
“Asfalto Brillante / Romantico Cosmico / Strada Spettacolo”, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara
2019
“Risorgeremo”, Castiglioni Fine Arts, Milan
2021
“Nei giorni di luce perfetta”, supported by Collezione Agovino, Aquapetra, Telese
“Marco Pio Mucci, De Pisis”, Milano Drawing Week organizated by Collezione Ramo, Castiglioni, Milan
2022
“33 anni a gennaio”, CRIPTA 747, Turin
Selected group exhibitions
2012
“Fuoriclasse”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
2016
“Where Wild Flowers Grow”, Armada, Milan
2017
“Mirrors”, curated by Alessandro Buganza and Margherita Castiglioni, Milan
“Blade Banner”, Sprint, Milan
2019
“Le Monde ou Rien”, Sgomento at Via Mezzocannone, Naples
“Un maire en BD. Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità: Marco Pio Mucci, Matteo Pomati”, IIC – Italian Cultural Institute, Paris
2020
“The Wasserman Kids”, Et Al Etc, San Francisco organizated by Attilia Fattori Franchini and devised by Sgomento
“Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità” (Piero Golia, Marco Pio Mucci, Matteo Pomati), curated by Francesco Tenaglia
2023
“Desiderio 23”, Zaza, Naples/Milan
“Pick Poket” curated by Sarah Lucas and Massimiliano Scuderi, Pescara
2024
“Noi Spariamo”, Galleria Zero…, Milan
“Prove per un paesaggio di insieme”, curated by Francesca Blandino and promoted by Collezione Agovino at Zurich Bank, Naples
Fairs
2021
Art Verona, Verona
2022
“Sapore di Mare” (with Tarsia), organized by Salotto Studio, Forte dei Marmi
Artissima, a solo presentation with Castiglioni Fine Arts, Turin
2023
Art-O-Rama, a solo presentation with Castiglioni Fine Arts, Marseille
Editorial projects
2017
“SGOMENTO Comics”
“Il futuro è nel Pistacchio” / Cover by Jared Madere, Love Bar, Milan
“O’ Tauto” / Cover by Gianluca Belloni, Fondazione Zimei
2018
“Hooligans 3000” / Cover by Kaspar Müller, Swiss Institute, Milan
“La Bella Giornata / Cover by Pádraig Timoney, Museo Madre, Naples
“Folie des grandeurs” / Cover by Camille Blatrix, Balice Hertling, Paris
2019
“Peppe Satana” / cover by Giulio Scalisi, Castro Projects, Rome
“Pittore a Milano” / cover by Marcello Jori, Fanta-MLN, Milan
“Lotteria e Granito” / in collaboration with Valentin Carron, limited
edition of 5
“I Never Read”, Art Book Fair, Basel “Stella de Mattino” / cover by
Sydney Shen, Sundogs, Paris
“Stella de Mattino” / Plymouth Rock, Zurich
2020
“In the Bosom of…” / cover by Marco Rigoni, Motto, Berlin
2024
“Scarecars” / with Massimo Grimaldi, Matta Gallery, Milan
“SGOMENTO Comics”
Publications
2012
“Fuoriclasse. 20 anni di arte italiana nei corsi di Alberto Garutti”,
Kaleidoscope
2017
Arte e Critica City (October-November 2017)
2018
Flash Art, “Arte e fumetto In Italia” (#338 April 2018)
2021
“Paesaggio Italiano” IV Collana Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, a
cura di Laura Cherubini, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Cloe Piccoli, Silviana
Editoriale d La Repubblica, by Cloe Piccoli (December 2021)
Project spaces
2013-2018
ARMADA, Milan
2020
SGOMENTO ZURIGO, Zurich
Workshops and conferences
2017
“Armada Milano” at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
2024
“Portfolio monocromatico”, NABA, Milan
“Pesci volanti: pratiche acrobatiche di sopravvivenza nell’arte attuale” at Accademia di Belle Arti