Marco Mazzoni
About
Marco Mazzoni is an Italian contemporary artist born in 1982 in Tortona, Italy, known for his hyper-detailed colored pencil drawings that blend portraiture with elements of flora, fauna, and Sardinian folklore. He graduated with a degree in painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2007 and primarily works exclusively with colored pencils, creating haunting portraits of female herbalists or mystics from 16th-18th century Sardinia, often framed by organic shapes, animals, and plants using chiaroscuro contrasts. His work draws from childhood experiences in the countryside surrounded by nature and Sardinian women, paying homage to healers, seductresses, and folklore figures like Janas and Cogas, evoking themes of fragile beauty, enchantment, and the dangers of nature.
Hyper-detailed portraiture combining flora, fauna, and Sardinian mystical female figures with chiaroscuro contrasts
Selected Exhibitions
- Dear Collapse (Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles)
- Monism (Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen)
- Il Ricordo รจ un Consolatore Molesto (Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan)
- Home (Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan)
- Animanera (Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY)
- 54th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia (Italian Pavilion)
- Turn The Page: the first ten years of Hi-Fructose (Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art)