Mauro Di Silvestre
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 both in Los Angeles and in Rome, the latter city is where he lives and works.
He was awarded several public awards such as the Premio Città di Lissone in 2001 and the Premio Celeste in 2004, winning respectively the II prize as well as the one dedicated to the category of Emerging Painters. Mauro Di Silvestre has exhibited in various galleries and international museums, in 2007 he was in India, where he exhibited at the On the edge of vision exhibition, at the Victoria Memorial Museum in Calcutta and in 2011 he was in Seoul with Five Cities Five Curators.
His first solo show was held in 2007 at the Z2O Gallery in Rome, with a text in the catalog by Achille Bonito Oliva. In 2009 the exhibition Pareti Parati e Parenti, curated by Martina Cavallarin was held at the Galleria Traghetto in Venice, and in 2011 he exhibited at Simultaneità degli opposti, by Maria Chiara Valacchi at the Galleria Bianca in Palermo. In May 2016, his latest solo show, Please, was staged at the Galerie L&C Tirelli in Vevey, Switzerland and in 2017 he exhibited with Francesco Cervelli at the exhibition Nel fondo del tempo, at the Mucciaccia Contemporary in Rome.
Mauro Di Silvestre's work is characterized by a visual overlap made of decorative patterns, which emerge in images evoked by an intimate and personal memory. "The images that appear in my mind and on my canvases," Mauro Di Silvestre explains, "often have something to do with the past. It is a past made up of personal memories, but at the same time familiar to most of us.” The figures represented by him come from gestures, faces and figures of mnemonic origin, which disappear and reappear behind the blanket of a motif that often makes them transpire or glimpse.
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
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
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