Untitled, Concrete Sculptures

Mario Loprete

I live in a world that I shape to my liking, through virtual pictorial and sculptural movement, transferring my experiences, photographing reality throughout my filters, refined from years research and experimentation.

The reinforced cement - the concrete - was created by two thousand years ago by the Romans. It has a millenary story, made of amphitheaters, bridges, and roads that have conquered the ancient and modern world. Today concrete is a synonym for modernity. Everywhere you go, you find a concrete wall - there’s the modern human in there. From Sydney to Vancouver, from Oslo to Pretoria, the reinforced cement, it’s present. We bring art into the streets in order to make it accessible to everyone. Why not bring the streets and urban surfaces into galleries and museums?

For my Concrete Sculptures I use my personal clothing. Throughout my artistic process, in which I use plaster, resin and cement, I transform these materials into artworks to hang. My memory, my DNA, memories of me - they remain concreted inside, transforming the person that looks at the artwork into a type of post-modern archeologist who studies my work as urban artifacts.

Mario Loprete (b. Catanzaro, 1968) is a graduate of Accademia of Belle Arti, Catanzaro.