DOMENICO

MAZZILLI
ECLECTIC AND COMPLETE By Jack Little

B
orn in Corato (Italy),
Domenico Mazzilli started
his career as an artist
graduating at Academy of
Art in Florence (Italy) with a first
class Honors degree in sculpture.
Domenico went on teaching
sculpture at Liceo Artistico G. De
Nittis (Bari) in Italy, while working
as a freelance artist.

Domenico is an eclectic and

complete artist. His work ranges
from sculpture and painting, and
uses several material and textures;
in his hands any material is a
potential tool to mould and shape
into a work of art.

Inspired by Picasso, Matisse and

Chagall, his paintings present a
variety of styles: from religious
representations to semi-
realistic and more abstract and
experimental pieces. Using an
artistic language that transcends
national and cultural boundaries, his
work is a passionate and dramatic
depiction of universal human
conflicts: the relationship between
men and women, sons/daughters
and parents etc.

Now, retired from teaching, based

in the rural and charming Puglia,
he continues developing his own
artistic voice and taking part in
national and international events.
Recent achievements include:
Winner of National Competition
Natiolum 2017 (Category
Sculpture) and artistic recognition
for his participation to the Jubilee
Year 2016 (Holy Year of Mercy).
To the Maestro Domenico Mazzilli,
for his valuable artistic contribution
and strong artistic personality.
His sophisticated art is of great
impact, led by technical research
and the rare gift of communicating
feelings. (EA -Palermo 2016)

At Home and Abroad

Nationally, in Italy, his work has
been exhibited in Rome, Turin,
and Florence to mention a few.
His sculptural monuments are on
permanent display in Sicily and
many others in southern Italy;
his smaller pieces (sculptures
and paintings) belong to private
collectors. Internationally he has
joined conferences and has taken
part in several exhibitions, such
as in the International Conference
on Sculpture in the Italian Culture
Institute in Dublin (Ireland),
the International Conference
of Landscape and Sculpture in
Manchester (UK), the Expo Art in
New York (USA), Graham Fine Art
Gallery and Brick Lane Gallery
in London (UK), Infantellina
Contemporary Gallery in Berlin
(Germany). Solo exhibitions include:
Main Gallery in Johannesburg
(South Africa) and Le Sorelle in
London (UK).
Domenicos work has an informal
expressionistic plastic style that
is rooted onto the human figure.
He has created and will create
sculptures following this impulse,
his instinct as a stone-hunter, his
ability to extract what is real and
turn into an enlightening expressive
vision. Domenicos work and all that
he has and will achieve have been
marked by art and imagination,
which is daughter to art. At all
costs, Domenico wants to reveal
all the secrets of a stone, its heart,
concealed by earth. It is a fight
against Time, stronger than Time
and that as it often happens it is a
fight that can prevail Time, in name
of art.
(Michele Campione art critic, RAI)
For any information about mazzilliannarita@yahoo.co.uk
Domenicos work please +44 7717766592
contact Annarita on: www.domenicomazzilli.com