Mauro Di Silvestre

Mauro Di Silvestre, La Mossa del cavallo, 2016, vintage wallpaper and oil on canvas, 140x120 cm

Mauro Di Silvestre, Oh, my whiskers and fur! I'm late ! I'm late ! I'm late, 2015, oil and watch on canvas, 140x120 cm

Mauro Di Silvestre, Starchild (un pigiama per lo spazio), 2016, starry paper, oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 140x120 cm

Mauro Di Silvestre was born in Rome in 1968. He studied painting in Los Angeles and in Rome.

He has received several public awards such as the City of Lissone Prize in 2001 and the Celeste Prize in 2004, winning respectively the 2nd prize and the award dedicated to the category of Emerging Painters.

Mauro Di Silvestre has exhibited in several international galleries and museums.

2007, solo exhibition with catalogue essay by Achille Bonito Oliva, Galleria Z2O, Rome.

2007, On the edge of vision, Victoria Memorial Museum, Calcutta.

2009, Pareti Parati e Parenti, curated by Martina Cavallarin, Galleria Ferroviaria, Venice.

2011, Five Cities Five Curators, Seoul.

2011, Simultaneity of opposites, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Galleria Bianca, Palermo.

2016, Please, Galerie L & C Tirelli, Vevey, Switzerland.

2017, Nel Fondo del tempo, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome.

Mauro Di Silvestre’s works are characterized by a visual overlay made of decorative patterns that emerge on images evoked by intimate and personal memory. The images represented by Mauro are derived from gestures, faces and figures of a mnemonic origin, which vanish and reappear behind the cover of a motif where often they transpire or are discerned.

Mauro Di Silvestre lives and works in Rome.

2016
Please, Galerie L&C Tirelli, Vevey, Switzerland

2015
Io non ho paura, Galleria Z2o, Rome

2013
Sedia sediola – Una specie di retrospettiva, curated by Fiorenzo D’Avino and Sabrina Vitiello, Cellamare Interno 56, Naples

2011
Simultaneità degli opposti - M. Di Silvestre, Foschini & Iacomelli, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Bianca Arte Contemporanea, Palermo

2010
Di Silvestre & Ravn, text in catalogue by Marco Tonelli, Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin, Rome

2009
Pareti, parati e parenti, curated by Martina Cavallarin, Galleria Traghetto, Venice

2007
Lontano da casa, curated by Giancarlo Buontempo and Gabriella Lonardi Buontempo, Spazio Millesimato, Montalcino

2007
Mauro Di Silvestre, text in catalogue by Achille Bonito Oliva, Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin, Rome

2018

Omaggio a Claudio Abate, Arimondi 3 Rewired, Rome

Fith Edition of Biennale Contemporary Art of Viterbo, Viterbo

2017

Schermi urbani, curated by G. Marziani, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Carandente Museum, Spoleto

Rouge et Blanc, Gianni Dessì, Ottavio Celestino, Galerie L&c Tirelli, Vevey, Switzeland

50X50X50 Cinquanta artisti festeggiano i cinqunt'anni della Temple University Rome, curated by S. Wasserman, Temple University, Rome

Nel Fondo Del Tempo, F. Cervelli & M. Di Silvestre, curated by Giulia Abate, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome

2016

Anni Zero, curated by A. Dambruoso, Temple University, Rome Campus, Rome

Uno di Uno. A proposito di serigrafia, curated by Vincenzo Rusciano, Spazio NEA, Naples

Sei Pittori Sei Anni Dopo, curated by Lorenzo Canova and Gianrico Battista, Piernicola Maria Di Iorio, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Montalbò, Casalciprano, Campobasso

Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell’arte nuova, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice

Eolie 1950-2015 mare motus, curated Lea Mattarella e Lorenzo Zichichi, Castello di Lipari, Lipari, Messina

Sé-gni, curated by Giorgia Calò, art works for IIFCA’s fundraising, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan

2014

9TY8 Italian Contemporary Artists, Spazio Cerere, Rome

Polvere negli occhi, nel cuore sogni IV, permanent collection for Liceo Bafile, L’Aquila

La Grande Illusione, Temple University Gallery of Art, Rome

2013

E Curti – Iconografia di una storia, Galleria Cellamare Interno 56, Naples

Amor Sacro: Sant’ Anna rivisitata, curated by, Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Palermo

Interni e Memorie, curated by Valentina Casacchia, Edward Cutler Gallery, Milan

2012

PPP Una Polemica Inversa, Omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini, curated by Flavio Alivernini, Palazzo Incontro, Rome

A piedi scalzi, curated by Roberto e Valentina Gramiccia, La Nuova Pesa, Rome

XLV edizione Premio Vasto - Percorsi di figurazione, curated by Carlo Fabrizio Carli, Vasto, Chieti

Un mosaico per Tornareccio, curated by Guglielmo Gigliotti, Tornareccio, Chieti

A piedi scalzi, curated by Roberto e Valentina Gramiccia, Brancaleone, Rome

Portonaccio – Artisti in condominio, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Ex-magazzini, Rome

Five Cities Five Curators, traveling exhibition in five cities, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, CIAC, Castello Orsini, Genazzano, Rome

2011

Five Cities Five Curators, traveling exhibition in five cities, curated by Alberto Dambruoso, Sangsangmadang Building, Seoul, South Korea

L'intreccio dei viaggi, LVI National exhibition prize of Termoli, Termoli, curated by Lorenzo Canova, Termoli, Campobasso

Post Printing, curated by Antonello Tolve, Archivio dell'Architettura Contemporanea, Salerno

Via Arimondi, curated by Shara Wasserman and Mauro Di Silvestre, Temple Gallery , Temple University, Roma

Acthung! Achtung!, a cura di Micol Di Veroli e Barbara Collevecchio, Ex Gil di Roma

2010

Casalciprano - Wall drawings, Archivio delle Arti Elettroniche, Laboratorio per l'Arte Contemporanea, University of Molise, Campobasso

Che cento fiori sboccino..., curated by Roberto Gramiccia, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Rome

XIV Biennale d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Le beatitudini evangeliche, Stauròs Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Isola del Gran Sasso, Teramo

Ab Ovo 2, L'origine e la forma, curated by Flavio Alivernini, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati, Rome

2009

Venticinque tondi tondi, Galleria Maniero, Rome

Ab Ovo. All'origine della forma, curated by Flavio Alivernini and Alessandra Caponi, Studio Abate, Rome

Que du papíer, Galerie Placido, Paris

Ditalia, Contemporanei 2009, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Modigliani Civic Art Gallery, Follonica, Grosseto

Echi futuristi – Echos futuristas, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Museo Municipal Dr. Genaro Pérez, Córdoba, Argentine

Artabù. Icone della trasgressione, curated by Salvatore Colantuoni, Giffoni Film Festival, St. Francis Convent, Giffoni, Salerno

Ad Memoriam. Momenti, ricordi e visioni su tela, curated by Stefano Elena, Studio Soligo, Rome

Sursum corda, curated by Cinzia Fratucello, Interno Ventidue Arte Contemporanea, Rome

A Bartolo, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Sala delle Capriate, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome

Incontri nr. 2 Italia – Ungheria, curated by Loránd Hegyi, Hungarian Academy in Rome, Rome

Donne di Roma, curated by Giuseppe Cerasa, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

2008

Natura e Arte in Certosa: Ortus Artis e Fresco Bosco, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Salerno

Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, curated by Lorenzo Canova, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Piazzale della Farnesina, Rome

XV Quadriennale d'arte di Roma, curated by C. Bertola, L. Canova, B. Corà, D. Lancioni, C. Spadoni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

I colori di Roma, curated by Giuseppe Cerasa, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

2007

D'àpres 30x40 46 artisti per 46 Maestri, Art Hotel, Rome

Cantiere in Corso, curated by Lorenzo CAnova and Flavia Monceri, University of Molise, Archive of the electronic arts and laboratory for contemporary art, Campobasso

Sottovetro, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Cafè Dagnino, Galleria Esedra, Rome

Visioni e Illusioni. Il realismo visionario nella pittura italiana moderna e contemporanea, curated by Silvia Pegoraro, Castello Cinquecentesco, L'Aquila

On the edge of vision - New idioms in Indian & Italian contemporary art, curated by Lorenzo Canova e Rajeev Lochan, Victoria Memorial Museum, Calcutta

2006

O mia cara trementina, Romberg Arte Contemporanea, Latina

Pittura elettrica 2, curated by Lorenzo Canova, GiaMaArt Studio, Vitulano, Benevento

Pittori al muro, curated by Marco Tonelli, Galleria L'Attico di Fabio Sargentini, Rome

Mito e velocità, curated by Massimo Scaringella, Maneggio degli Zar, Moscow

2005

Colazzo-Di Silvestre-Nardi, Galleria Maniero, Rome

Plotart Europe, curated by Gianluca Marziani and Massimo Lupoli, Rar Gallery, Spijkenisse, Holland

Forza motrice, curated by Fabio Sargentini and Marco Delogu, Officine Trambus, Rome

S/AGO/ME 547, curated by Paola D'Andrea and Domenico Giglio, Traforo di Via Nazionale, Rome

2004

MATCH. Critica a confronto, curated by Lorenzo Canova and Marco Tonelli, Galleria Russo, Rome

Cortilarte: La notte bianca, curated by Valentina Casacchia, Piazza dei Sanniti, San Lorenzo, Rome

Faccia a faccia – Premio Camposauro, curated by Lorenzo Canova, Complesso di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Vitulano, Benevento

2003

Pagine nere, curated by Fabio Sargentini, Galleria L'Attico, Rome

Roma Inchiostro indelebile – Inchiostro d'artista, curated by Domenico Giglio, Macro Testaccio Museum , Rome

2002

Art Box, curate by Fondazione Volume!, Center for Art and Culture A. Capezzano, Rende, Cosenza

1999

Arte 2000, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome 