Maximilian Damico

STATEMENT:
Italian watercolorist Maximilian Damico paints primarily on location. He observes city sidewalks and intersections, looking for not the most famous scenes but the most interesting. With quick, lively brushstrokes, Maximilian captures the energy and mood of cities whether in the rain, gloom, or rush hour. The frenetic quality of city life doesn’t detract from the beauty of each scene. Maximilian’s gestural technique instead infuses liveliness in each artwork, a liveliness that makes being in a big city a never-ending thrill.

PROCESS:
I usually work on location, just sometimes I do several sketches of the same theme and then I go to complete it in the studio...usually I do finish a painting one going on (this is essential in my technique). I do not mind about famous sight seen, but I like walk in some place to find an aesthetic details or an interesting game shadow/light.
Basically I approach the painting with a separate palette warm and cold colour, the contrast lets have an interesting three-dimensional and plastic effect; I try every time to move the brush as fast as I can, to catch the movement, that I am seeing in reality, on the paper...that lets the painting get the energy and the vibrations that I am constantly...

Academy of Fine Arts Naples/Milan 2000-2005
Diploma in Painting into Academy of fine Arts in Naples; Specialist degrees in Brera, Milan.

2023 Gallery 23 Open Art group show in Prague
2023 International Group Show in Mash Gallery, Go Loco, Los Angeles
2023 International Watercolor Society in Florida, second biennial exhibition in ArtCenter Manatee
2022 IWS Santiago, international watercolor group show in Santiago de Chile
2022 Featured and Interviewed in The London Reader magazine. Spring issue: London Lost Stories in a Changing City
2022 Mall Galleries London, Royal Society of Watercolour Painters Annual Exhibition April 2022
October 2021 Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall, in London.
2020 Artists of the Year 2020 winner, for annual SAA Artists of the Year competition, SAA Newark, UK.
2020 7th International “Love, Tolerance and Peace through Art” Watercolor Festival and Golden Brush Contest taking place from May 7 to May 10, 2020 in İzmir, Turkey.
2020 Mall Galleries London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020
2019 International Watercolor Society Indonesia’s watercolour exhibition in Nusa Dua, Bali, 1-7th August 2019.
2019 Selected for the international Project and Symposium “Don`t Bite me” , in Naples organized by Blue Rihno Art and Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.
2019 IWS International Watercolor Festival in Lima, Peru
2018 Septem...